According to the 2020 Deloitte-NASCIO Cybersecurity Study for state governments, 54 percent of states are not confident in their ability to protect emerging technology. Traditional cybersecurity approaches can result in singularly focused solutions that don’t provide holistic protection. It can also inhibit an organizations’ ability to monitor and respond to security threats in real time. As […]
The Human Firewall is a Lie
It is delusional to think we can deprogram millennia of human evolution because information security is difficult. The human firewall is a lie.
The Gilfoyle Problem
We are going on a Vision Quest to explore our Gilfoyle Problem in IT and cybersecurity.
Illusions of Information Security – The Struggle for Truth
In October 1995, I finally found my calling. What I found was SQL Injection, perhaps the most prevalent web site hack still alive and well twenty years later. However, what I discovered was that my calling is not about hacking websites, but rather hacking humans.
The Needs of the Many: Becoming a Servant Security Leader
“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.” This was Spock’s pragmatic wisdom from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, which was a inspirational movie for me when I was 12. Now 30 years later, it is still a good quote for security leaders to ponder.
