Sorry is not the final word, just the beginning
After years of managing online products and projects, you’d think it would become old hat… but never, not for this […]
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Risk
So one muffin says to the other…
I’d like to start things off in this posting with a joke I heard on the US Television show, Two
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Risk? What Risk?
Every program manager has run into the same situation at some point in their career. You put together your program
Wrap Up
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.
Administrative Security Controls
Administrative controls are perhaps most important, because they most directly impact your people. On the one hand, they are the simplest, since all it takes is education. On the other hand, education about the hazards of smoking or the possibility that having sex causes pregnancy hasn’t done much to change behaviors in those realms. Well, rather than throw up our hands and give up, let’s tackle administrative controls anyhow…
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Technical Security Controls
There is a lot to talk about with regard to technical security controls, aka the “sexy stuff” like firewalls and IDS. So rather than bore you with technobabble (in Scrappy Information Security, I start with packets, headers, ports & MACs as a way of introducing how the Internet works), I will instead focus on an explanation of encryption.
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Scrappy Information Security
We’re adults, and we like to know “why.” I would like to share some of the whys of information security, so that you can understand why the infosec guys can be so darned stubborn.
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Go Ahead, Be Bold!
I’m sure you’ve all heard that old saying, “There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no
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talking about risks
One often-used lament I hear on projects and in project management classes is, “No one here wants to deal with
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The Power of Negative Thinking: Engineering Management in Reverse
Most of my work revolves around the power of creating breakthroughs through extreme optimism and hideously positive thinking for which
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4. The Credit Crisis: For Project Managers – What should you Expect?
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive
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