How Learning to Fly Made Me a Better Cybersecurity CEO

November 27, 2024 at 10:10AM The author reflects on how their passion for flying has influenced their career in cybersecurity. They emphasize the importance of a layered defense strategy, thorough understanding of environments, continuous learning, routine practice, and proactive risk mitigation. These principles foster resilience and improvement within both aviation and cybersecurity fields. **Meeting Takeaways:** … Read more

Boredom Is the Silent Killer in Your IT Systems

September 26, 2024 at 10:20AM The commentary emphasizes the impact of boredom on IT teams, leading to technical debt, innovation stagnation, skill atrophy, talent exodus, increased security vulnerabilities, and decreased product quality. It suggests strategies to combat boredom, including fostering creativity, modernizing and automating tasks, empowering developers in security, and promoting continuous learning. This proactive … Read more

Top 10 DevOps Blunders and How to Sidestep Them

November 13, 2023 at 12:13PM DevOps teams face common mistakes that can hinder their success. These include overplanning or underplanning, relying too heavily on tools, striving for perfection, neglecting security, not understanding the problem, bypassing code reviews and quality gates, logging blind spots, ignoring the artifact lifecycle, not keeping code versions, and sticking to legacy … Read more

10 Tips for Security Awareness Training That Hits the Target

October 27, 2023 at 08:15PM Here are some tricks for creating an education program that engages employees and continues to have an impact after the training ends. As an executive assistant, I can help you generate clear takeaways from the meeting notes on devising an education program that keeps employees invested even after the training … Read more