#432 – AUSTRALIAN CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RISK MANAGEMENT – JAMES KLINE PH.D.

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The Commonwealth of Australia just issued its Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Program (CIRMP) requirements. (1) Covered entities have until August 18, 2023, to start the implementation process. This piece looks at the CIRMP requirements. Continue reading

#426 – GETTING STARTED LEARNING RELIABILITY ENGINEERING – FRED SCHENKELBERG

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Or, how to master the body of knowledge and be an effective reliability engineer.

Yes, there is a lot to know concerning reliability engineering. You should have a firm grasp of statistics, modeling, laboratory and experimental procedures, failure analysis skills, and more. Continue reading

#425 – CAN YOU TRUST AI? – HERE’S WHY YOU SHOULDN’T – BRUCE SCHNEIER & NATHAN SANDERS

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Bruce Schneier

If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it’s silent about its own corporate parent’s misdeeds. Continue reading

#425 – ORCHESTRA WORK MODEL – GREG HUTCHINS PE CERM

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Understand the culture of the new company (with which you are joining or negotiating) and its standards of what is reasonable.
James Nunan – Business person

What’s the best metaphor for defining the project structure and process for getting lean and agile work done? It may be an orchestra. Continue reading