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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.
Bring Your Own PC
A common topic in companies lately has been Bring Your Own Device, and we usually think mobile. But the New York Times highlights another growing area: Bring Your Own Computer.
The Journal Report on Information Security
The Wall Street Journal today dedicated their Journal Report to Information Security, with excellent coverage of topical and understandable articles around information security, social engineering, and incident response.
NYT on US Government Identities
The New York Times has a good background piece on the NSTIC proposal for online identities. There will never be a government-sponsored identity program that makes everyone happy, but perfect or not, it's a great start.
Tracking Criminals' Cell Phones With a Stingray
There was an interesting article in today's Wall Street Journal about the legal implications of police using a device called a stingray to find people. Stingrays are one of several new technologies used to track locations, often without a warrant.
The Cloud is More Secure Than You
I was reading an interview with FEMA CIO Richard Spires on his aggressive approach to moving US infrastructure to the cloud. I'm often asked whether cloud computing is secure enough for a company.