I saw a recent LinkedIn post describing the fairly common issue of burn out in the cyber security world. One of the commenters on the story outlined the psychological challenge known as Bateson’s Double-Bind. If you are unfamiliar (as I was) with this description, do take a look at the Wikipedia link here. I’d previously […]
Checklists have featured quite a bit in my work lately. Both the development of new and the tweaking of an existing one. This came at the same time as reading The Checklist Manifesto. This melds in my head with the increasing push for throughput over thought and to take this to its logical conclusion – […]
You will recall from Part 1 and Part 2 that I bemoaned the flagellation of the security tools industry for failures in security and therefore the occurrence of breaches. The real question is: given there is a problem here, what should we do about it. If security tooling is not the answer, what is? Well, […]
I’ve seen quite a bit of noise on LinkedIn with various posts decrying the security tooling industry. The gist of the posts are that the tooling industry is broken/multiple failed promises/tools don’t provide the security they are touting etc… Couple this with an evening seminar I attended toward the end of 2022, where the a […]
Fractional Polymath 