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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…

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