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…
May 25, 2012 Why Info Sec Positions Go Unfilled http://www.infosecleaders.com/2012/05/career-advice-tuesday-why-info-sec-position-go-unfilled/ There are many holes in this, but I think they miss some important points. First is setting IT HR to look for Infosec….
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…
July 21, 2010 When organizations put a lot of eggs in one basket – desktop side http://www.zdnet.com/blog/virtualization/when-organizations-put-a-lot-of-eggs-in-one-basket-desktop-side-of-the-story/2103?tag=nl.e539 This is a chicken-little story. We’ve been putting many computer eggs in one hardware basket for a long, long time. What do you…
November 25, 2009 Why don’t companies apply more risk analysis – Part 2 And while on that subject … “Consult Human Resources when making disaster recovery plans” Every DR plan I’ve seen has failed to take into…
July 23, 2009 The Need for Social Engineerig in InfoSec Image via Wikipedia When I took my undergraduate Engineering degree the attitude of my professors was that if we had chose engineering as our…