One of the reasons why organisations ultimately fail at Cyber Security, is because the office of the CSO lacks power. In this post I’ll explain why that is and what we can do about it. Why The CSO Lacks Power The Cyber Security industry constantly strives to produce better products and services. Engineers work tirelessly…

Making Your 1st Decision — This is the first of a short series of posts about the Cyber Security market. This market is interesting now because I believe it’s at a juncture where we can choose one of two possible futures. We being the product builders, investors, and customers. …

This post is written from the perspective of a VC screening for success factors. In it I drill deeper into successful operational characteristics. If you’re an entrepreneur or founder, you should give consideration to adopting some of the systems I talk about here. …

“Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo. This is the second of two posts on strategic software. The first explained what it is, what it does, and where to find it. Now I’ll tell you why its an idea whose time has come…

“Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun, they have not.” — Hilaire Belloc. Once upon a time software was just for counting beans. It counted more beans faster and cheaper than anything else. Then computers became personal, then portable, then pocketable. All sorts of different kinds of software were…

“He grasped two pillars of the temple and bowed himself with all his might” — Judges 16:30. Introduction This post is about online services which rely partly, or wholly, on user-contributed content. It’s about what happens to that content if those services close. I’ll examine the constraints and motivations of the…

This will probably be the first and last time I write about social networking. I’m an antisocial social networker. I had an expectation that part of the job of a networking platform (professional or social) would be to filter content or updates, both in terms of who was posting them…

Final Remarks — “All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved” — Sun Tzu. This is the 6th and final post in a short series on winning systems for security practitioners. The first post feels like a while…

Resilience “In defeat: Defiance” — Winston S. Churchill. This is part 5 of 6 in a short series of posts on winning systems for Information Security practitioners. It aims to plug the gap between policy and products and put you, the practitioner, back in the driving seat. After all if you…