August 31, 2013 On ‘paranoia’ – revisiting “Paid to be paraoid” My fellow CISSP and author Walter Jon Williams observed that Paranoia is not a part of any mindset. It is an illness. Ah, Walter…
March 15, 2013 “Paid to be paranoid” Read the first four paragraphs of this: http://hollylisle.com/shoes-and-handbags/ Forget the rest, forget that its about ‘creative writing’, just answer that question. Bruce Schneier among…
September 14, 2012 Learning to Counter Threats – Skills or Ethics? Fellow CISSP Cragin Shelton made this very pertinent observation and gave me permission to quote him. The long thread about the appropriateness of learning…
February 8, 2012 Upside and downside: How I hate Journalists http://compliancesearch.com/compliancex/insider-trading/senate-votes-to-ban-insider-trading-by-its-members/ And this doesn’t actually stop them form making use of ‘insider information’ they just have to declare it within 30 days. No, wait,…
July 8, 2011 He’s not Ian Paisley I was at a presentation yesterday. One of the vendor’s speakers, I’m sorry to say, was a CISSP. OK, he wasn’t Ian Paisley or…
December 27, 2009 Throwing in the towel I was saddened to hear of an InfoSec colleague who met with overwhelming frustration at work: After two years of dealing with such nonsense,…
November 27, 2008 People under extreme stress may behave unpredictably and have limited capacity for rational thought “People under extreme stress may behave unpredictably and have limited capacity for rational thought”
October 21, 2006 The CISSP Forum FAQ Its one of those bootstrap problems – the new CISSPs who need to read the information can’t get at the FAQ on how to…
