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So Many Things Can Kill You, Don’t Let It Be Work
Discover key strategies for maintaining work-life balance and avoiding burnout in this insightful blog post. Learn how to manage stress, take meaningful breaks, and prioritize what truly matters.
You Are A Salesperson
Unlock the secrets to selling your security ideas internally. Learn why thinking like a salesperson is crucial for security professionals to gain support and funding from their organizations.
Why Your Strategy Needs a Consultant
Discover why hiring a consultant can transform your strategy by providing fresh perspectives and overcoming internal limitations, much like FDR's need for a second medical opinion revealed critical insights.
Why You Need A Good Boss
A comprehensive discussion on the importance of having a good boss.
2 Ways to Learn to Manage
Discover two transformative approaches to mastering management: emulate respected leaders or learn from ineffective managers' mistakes. Enhance your style, uplift your team, and drive success.
Only 2 Things You Need to be a Great Manager
Discover the two essential keys to becoming a great manager: prioritizing your clients and supporting your team. Learn how these principles can transform your leadership style and drive success.
Interviewing Security Professionals
I was reading a recent 37signals post about why they don't hire programmers based on puzzles or parlor tricks, and it got me wondering what strange tricks I played on the security professionals interviewing with me.
Write Down Your Passwords
The usual protocol when it comes to passwords is to create one that is hard to guess but easy to remember, because you shouldn't write it down. Yet I was still surprised to see a product specifically designed to write your passwords in.
Non Profit Wanted
Looking for a non-profit focused on helping other non-profits and charities with their information security issues, if you know of one.
A Refrigerator Has Never Been Hacked
Today's WSJ had an ad from the US Postal Service touting the security of a printed document over e-mail and the internet. Beyond the security of the printed letter, mail is great out-of-band communication with your customer.
Hacking Made Easier
NPR, along with a number of other media outlets, has been talking about new user-friendly hacking tools that let the average user be an elite hacker. I'm not an advocate for creating hacking tools, but I'd like to know what an attacker is going to use.
Keep It Simple
I had the privilege of hearing Harry Kraemer, former CEO of Baxter, present on leadership. One of his key tenets is Keeping Things Simple, and it applies directly to how security professionals sell security to the organization.