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If the rats are after your cheese, keep the cheese safe
Jason Ha explores how can we prevent hackers from taking a bite out of our assets.
Is Your Security Framework Like a Smooth Saloon Car or a 4X4?
If we took the same approach to building a car as we did to our organisational controls and capabilities what would be the result? Jason Ha takes a look under the bonnet.
Waiting for Godot and a Data Breach
Indy Dhami joins Estragon and Vladimir and looks at what Waiting for Godot can teach us about the attitudes companies should adopt towards security threats
Lessons From the Pit Lane
Anne Wood takes inspiration from Formula 1, and discusses how understanding our environments is crucial to having the winning infosec strategy.
Digital Vampires
Dixie Newman lifts the coffin lid on the vampire, and how they can hunt and feed upon us in the digital world too.
The importance of the captain’s log…
How can we ensure our IT management is smooth sailing? Emmanuel Nicaise sails the infosec sea and considers how to steer clear of stormy weather.
Jurassic Park – Based on a True Story…
Yes, really!I was recently looking for a change of direction in my information security career and was invited to an interview at a local company. I was instructed to prepare a 10 minute presentation on ...
Lessons from the Big Four – Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes
I don’t know if the phrase “the bigger they come, the harder they fall” was around when Shakespeare was alive but it applies to his tragic heroes across the board. If we look at his ...
God Save Me From My Friends. I Can Protect Myself From My Enemies
This quote is attributed to many. In fact, most people believe it was first said by King David himself. Some attribute to the French philosopher Voltaire, and others to the French marshal Claude Louis Hector ...
The Elephant and the Six Blind Men: What Does Information Security Mean to You?
The poem “The Blind Men and the Elephant” was written by John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887). The essence of the poem is that their reactions were: The first felt the side of the elephant and said: It’s ...
Don’t Walk on the Grass!
In a vain bid to keep fit, I go running. Sometimes. When the mood takes me. It’s one of those things that I know I should do - I understand the importance of exercise, but ...
The Anxious Ant and the Lazy Grasshopper
Description: An 18th century coloured print by Jean-Baptiste Oudry from his luxury edition of Aesop's Fables Author: Jean Baptise This is an English translation of Jean Loup-Richet's original 'La Fourmi Soucieuse et la Cigale Paresseuse' analogy posted 28th ...
Traffic Calming
Sean Pollonais looks at how taking a similar approach to Hans Monderman’s clutter free traffic system can be effectively applied to Information Security.
Castles
Anne Wood discusses how, with a little imagination, the often dismissed Castle can actually form the basis of a strong Information Security analogy.
Security and Securities
Your investment may go down as well as up… Raj Patel looks at how understanding your appetite for risk could help you plan for the worst.
The Art of Boiling Frogs (And Teaching Executives)
When it comes to boiling frogs (admittedly not for everyone), timing is everything. Rafael Lachi explores how this relates to communicating information security issues with executives.
Pourquoi le cycle de Deming contribue-t-il à une meilleure gestion de la sécurité
Diving involves a rigorous series of checks and systems to ensure the divers safety combined with a practice of continued improvement. In this French Language analogy Fabrice De Paepe takes a look at what we can learn from this in our own approaches to Information Security.
When the Worlds of InfoSec and Diabetes Management Intersect
Dan Sherman looks at diabetes and what the process of managing the condition can teach us about Information Security.
