By Martin Fisher Think back to the best leader you’ve ever followed. For me, it was my Professor of Military Science when I was in ROTC during my college stint. Look at him and at first you’d see him as an “average” Army officer. He’d had a bunch of good assignments, some not so good [...]
Leading from the Front: Casting Vision – The Foundation of Effectively Disrupting the Organization
March 31, 2010 By
Leading from the Front: Bringing Planned Disruption To The Organization
February 23, 2010 By
By Martin Fisher What is the most important job/function of a leader? Inspire the team? Use resources effectively? Make tough decisions? Set an example? Develop others? All of these are good answers and are important things for a leader to be sure they are accomplishing in an organization. But none of these is the most [...]
The Solution: Leading People, Managing Objects, and Accomplishing Goals
January 19, 2010 By
by Martin Fisher Those who know me have come to expect me to “correct” them whenever they say “manage people”. “Objects are managed, people are led,” is my usual retort. Sometimes I am met with a blank look, sometimes with a exasperated grimace, and sometimes (and not nearly often enough) by a questioning stare. “What?” [...]
The Leadership Challenge in Today’s Security Environment
December 11, 2009 By
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ~Peter Drucker Leadership. It’s talked about a lot in today’s information security conferences and books – but how much of it is really happening? Do we, as professionals, really embrace leadership and its inherent risks, rewards, and challenges? Or, on the other hand, do [...]
Have a workable plan, or else…
October 27, 2009 By
by Martin Fisher As we continue to discuss the Basic Truths of Incident Response Leadership, we’ve briefly gone over the three Basic Truths as well as done a deeper analysis of “Succeeding By Planning to Fail”. This brings us to: Basic Truth #2: Have A Workable Plan, or Else As an Incident Response Leader, one [...]
Communicating with Your Boss
September 3, 2009 By
by Martin Fisher As we looked at the first two of the three Basic Truths of Incident Response Leadership (“Assume You Will Fail” and “Have A Workable Plan”), we focused on activities that the Incident Response Leader does with the incident response team being led. The final truth involves the other direction on the organizational chart… [...]
Succeeding By Planning to Fail
August 20, 2009 By
by Martin Fisher As security professionals, it’s hard to admit to to our bosses (and ourselves) that all of the work we’ve done to prevent compromise sometimes isn’t enough. We don’t like to think about the possibility that the money and time invested in technology might not prevent an incident from occurring. That’s why I [...]
Incident Response Leadership: Basic Truths
July 28, 2009 By
by Martin Fisher An organization might spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to implement just one security infrastructure. Millions of dollars can be spent creating a security environment that provides an extensive defense against all nature of attacks and threats. But the true value of that substantial investment can never be realized until one relatively [...]
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