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13 Jan 2014How do you exercise your “power” in IT?
My new favorite quote I came across recently is the following from Ayn Rand: "Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear."...interestingly, her quote applies directly to IT and security by ...
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14 Aug 2013
Municipal information security weaknesses, hacking, careers, & committees
Here's some new content I've written recently on various information security topics you might be interested in:Government Security: Uncovering Your Weaknesses (common vulnerabilities I see when performing security assessments for municipalities)Eight questions to ask yourself before moving to C-suite management (are you really sure you want to do this!?)IT career paths: Working for yourself is an attainable dream (if you want to stop working for the man)Top 9 ways to ...
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08 Dec 2011
Are CIOs not doing their jobs?
In the past week I've come across three different articles on how CFOs are getting more involved in IT. For example, in last week's Atlanta Business Chronicle feature CFOs take on increasing roles in IT department stated: "CFO involvement with IT has been largely driving by the need to upgrade reporting functions and the general inability of many legacy systems to provide the kind of data the C-suite needs." According ...
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29 Oct 2010
The business side of Web security (you can’t afford to ignore)
Here's a new piece I wrote about the *other* aspects of Web security beyond the bits and bytes...Don't let this stuff catch you off guard.Preventing phishing attacks is not just a technical issue...
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