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 moreI often think of the beginning of “A Midwinter’s Tale” when Michael Maloney talks about his nervous breakdown as a long slow buildup. Some nervous breakdowns come quickly, catastrophically, he says; others have more of a slow build. He, he says, is 33 years old and this nervous breakdown had started when he was 7 months old and was just […]
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