What follows is an analogy that I have been meaning to write for years, but, like all great procrastinators, I let life get in the way.
Be warned however, I have taken significant ‘poetic licence’, and generalised outrageously, so don’t be too upset with the glaring ‘plot’ holes. I have also written this from the perspective of my own experience running, not from a true runner’s perspective. Anyway, I’m still faffing…
Continue reading “Running Marathons: The Perfect Cybersecurity Analogy”A month ago I wrote the blog ‘Beware of the ‘Pet Rock’ Cybersecurity Vendors‘, in which I offered to give a day of my time away for free. I stated:
“Any organisation within a 1 hour train ride from London can have 1 day of my time for ‘free’ as long as the following requirements are fulfilled:“
And while those ‘requirements’ were as basic as there were necessary…:
Continue reading “Cybersecurity Skills Gap my Arse, I Can’t GIVE my Time Away!”In April 1975, Gary Dahl had an idea. A genius idea as it turned out, particularly when you consider that he made roughly $28 million dollars (adjusted for inflation) from something that was, to all intents and purposes, completely useless.
The Pet Rock was just that, a rock. No paint, no googly eyes, nothing, just a rock taken from Rosarito Beach, packaged up and sold for $20 each.
He sold 1.5 million of them.
Continue reading “Beware of the ‘Pet Rock’ Cybersecurity Vendors”According to the Tinterwebs, to ‘recommend’ means to; put forward (someone or something) with approval as being suitable for a particular purpose or role.
So you might argue that this is exactly why you hire a consultant in the first place. In some professions I would absolutely agree. A doctor [for example] would not just recommend that you quit smoking, they would – and should – bloody-well insist. However, everyone on the planet already knows that smoking is stupid, so they are doing so with full knowledge of the possible consequences.
Continue reading “A Good Cybersecurity Consultant Never Uses the Word 'Recommend'”Even 3 years later only 1 of these things is becoming [slightly] true (#1).
Continue reading “Froud on Fraud – Cybersecurity Predictions for 2020”