August 24, 2011 The real reasons for documentation – and how much he documentation required and/or needed by ISO-2700x is a perenial source of dispute in the various forums I subscribe to. Of course management has…
August 18, 2011 TV kills! I keep telling everybody that TV is injurious to your (mental) health, but does anyone listen? Why should they? They didn’t when Gerry Mander…
August 9, 2011 His Bipolar made him do it http://compliancesearch.com/compliancex/current-affairs/his-bipolar-made-him-do-it/ An accused hedge fund fraudster’s mother is showing support, by claiming her son is not to blame for defrauding investors out of over…
August 7, 2011 Using ALE … inappropriately Like many forms of presenting facts, not least of all about risk, reducing complex and multifaceted information to a single figure does a dis-service…
August 6, 2011 Schneier on Security: Hacking Cars Through Wireless Tire-Pressure http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/08/hacking_cars_th.html A few alarming things here. More nanny State : In other words, the nanny state is forcing upon us expensive and insecure systems…
August 6, 2011 The Decline of the Physical Desktop http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/As-Foretold-by-Desktop-Managment-Tools-588370/ What’s interesting here is that this isn’t preaching “The Cloud” and only mentions VDI in one paragraph (2 in the one-line expanded version)….
August 6, 2011 Would you buy a computer from a company like this? http://consumerist.com/2011/05/security-expert-sony-knew-its-software-was-obsolete-months-before-psn-breach.html Its not a camera, its computer that takes pictures Its not a car, its a computer that gets you from place to place…
August 6, 2011 Fwd: How Quality Drives the Rise and fall of hi-tech products http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2011-summer/52403/how-quality-drives-the-rise-and-fall-of-high-tech-products I’m dubious. On the one hand I recall a book titled “In Search of Stupidity“, which I strongly recommends reading, its about the…
August 4, 2011 Mistaken Thinking – Risk not threats Via a LinkedIn posting in the Infosecurity magazine forum titled “Internet Threats Posed By Mobile Devices: How Can We Prevent Them?” I came to…
