CISOs live inside so many different types of technical data. It’s necessary to communicate with boards of trustees, but when boards don’t understand the technical details, a flood of data will not result in any “eureka” moments. So how does one “tell them a story”? One strategy is to take a step back from your own head. You live inside […]
» Read morePeople might read this recent Gartner white paper, “Prevention is Futile in 2020“, and take it to mean that they might as well just give up worrying about cybersecurity. In fact the paper stresses that organizations will need to shift their focus to securing information and people, not their organizations (really, not their network). It’s consistent with Google’s announcement last […]
» Read moreFor people interested in social engineering this connection comes up a lot, so let me take some pixels to explain it. Bear with me if you will. Language is a system. Language seems to share certain features across all our human versions of it. And yet language is infinitely productive. You constantly create sentences so unique that a Google search will […]
» Read moreIn moving this site to WordPress I decided to add and update a section on presentations. As with so many things, tabulating one’s results brings up interesting correlations. The presentations all seem to be about people, not technology. It would be easy to think, looking at the topics, that I don’t spend much of my day on very technical issues. […]
» Read moreSeveral faculty who attended Hofstra’s 75th anniversary celebration stated that they thought the cultural difference between students and faculty was bigger now than it had ever been in their experience. Some of my staff love to remind me that “kids are crazy” has long been a cry of every older generation. Somewhere in between these two points is the truth. […]
» Read moreFaculty tend to shy away from the business aspects of higher education. Perhaps this is because business logic and business reasons have been used from time to time to justify change antithetical to what the faculty member believes is best for higher education. On their side, people who make decisions about higher education based on business realities don’t always take the time […]
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