By Michael Seese on
April 25th, 2009
I believe that most people in the computer-using community (which now is just about everybody in the developed nations) want to do the right thing, and can do the right thing. They just need to know what the right things are, and how to do them. That is what I hope to have imparted to you this week. Now that you understand why we security folks are such fuss-budgets, I hope you will forgive us the next time we make an impossible demand of your project.
And if you really want to impress the security guys, read my book (OK, commercial over) so that you can actually speak their language. Who knows? You might actually confuse them enough to get them to acquiesce.
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Michael Seese, CISSP, CIPP, is an information security, privacy, and business contingency professional in beautiful Chagrin Falls, Ohio. He holds a Master of Science in information security, which was earned completely online via a very cool synchronous and interactive curriculum, and a Master of Arts in psychology, which tends to scare people. He began his career as a journalist, and then moved into technical writing, which piqued an interest in programming, which after all is nothing more than another form of writing, using a more limited and concise language. Then one day, standing in a local bookstore and surrounded on three sides by programming books, covering C++ and C-sharp and .NET and ASP, he had an epiphany: programming languages come and go. Guess wrong—that is, specialize in the flavor-of-the-last-month—and some college fresh-out will take your job, and probably do it better. But the need to store data and protect data will remain and, in fact, grow. That realization led to his current career track.
Michael regularly speaks at conferences, has had numerous articles published in professional journals, and contributed two chapters to the 2008 PSI Handbook Of Business Security. He is the co-author of
Haunting Valley, a compilation of ghost stories from the Chagrin Valley. Michael also penned (or, better said, e-penned) the twin books
Scrappy Information Security and
Scrappy Business Contingency Planning. He currently spends his limited spare time rasslin' with three young'uns, and can be reached between matches at
scrappy@michaelseese.com.
Great series, Michael. Info Sec should be part of every high school curriculum. If people would like to read about the extremes of data security, they might enjoy the article, How to Steal Secrets without a Network, on page 58 of the May 2009 issue of Scientific American. In summary: you should keep your blinds drawn on your office windows or you risk allowing 007 to eavesdrop on your screen or keyboard using nothing more than a powerful telescope!
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