The Internet, Big Data and Loss of Privacy
In my perpetual quest to make Cyber Security more accessible and less ponderous, I am experimenting with a new approach – a video parody of a Bond villain exposition, summarizing his nefarious plan: Small Version: http://youtu.be/gi9sIHF2XBs Continue reading
Agile has become a prevalent process in the management of projects. A process where we constantly roll out updated software (for this article’s purposes, can be used on any type of project).
If you’ve worked on projects for very long, you’ve no doubt heard somebody (usually a manager or executive who just read an article) say, “We have to identify our risks! We must know what is coming and how to avoid it!”
And the exercise involves an all-hands session where people throw out ideas, somebody documents it, and the results get filed away with other artifacts that never see the light of day again. A bit of a doomsday outlook you say? I would agree had I not seen some variation of this play out over and over again. Continue reading
Recognising that risk is inherent in every IT project is the first step towards managing it effectively.
“Would you like some risk with that?” Is something I almost never hear. In the IT business, we tend to stress the positive and minimise the negative. Continue reading
In a conversation with Bill Burns, Director of Information Security at Netflix, he told me that he wanted 2500 firewalls. Before you think he wants to make a major networking equipment buy, let me put his comment in context. Continue reading