A Difference of Perspective

I recently participated in a briefing with Cisco where Cisco’s David Bump explained to me the idea behind the Cisco Learning System. The Cisco Learning System works to fill the IT talent gap by partnering with both public and private partners to help increase the supply of qualified professionals. David caught my attention when he [...]

Into the Breach – Audio Series – Chapter 11 (Outsource with Security and Success)

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Welcome to the continuation of the Into the Breach: Protect Your Business by Managing People, Information and Risk audio series. (Click this link) to learn more about this how this book solves today’s challenges and pick up a complete copy. This series, underwritten by Configuresoft, now part of EMC, is the full and unabridged audio [...]

Where I Cry for Help (and get more than I could ever have expected)

This is the second in a series of posts detailing the journey and experiences of Joseph Sokoly as a first time speaker in InfoSec. When we left off, I had just decided it was time for me to throw my hat in the ring at BSides Austin; it was one month until my talk, and [...]

What On Earth was I Thinking?!

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This is the first in a series of posts detailing the journey and experiences of Joseph Sokoly as a first time speaker in InfoSec. Continuing on the “things I learned from speaking” track, the next step is why I did what I did. What would prompt someone to speak at their first InfoSec con ever? [...]

Into the Breach Audio Book Chapter 10: Reducing the Cost of Compliance

Welcome to the continuation of the Into the Breach: Protect Your Business by Managing People, Information and Risk audio series. (Click this link) to learn more about this how this book solves today’s challenges and pick up a complete copy. This series, underwritten by Configuresoft, now part of EMC, is the full and unabridged audio [...]

What BSides Austin taught me about speaking (and the future of our industry)

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By Joseph Sokoly Note from Michael: I am excited to share this guest article from Joseph about his experiences speaking at BSides. I’m encouraging him to share more ideas in the future – and we might just get him as a contributor! Last month, I attended my first security conference ever. It was also the [...]

Leading from the Front: Casting Vision – The Foundation of Effectively Disrupting the Organization

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 [...]

Does the cloud take away the need for a security team?

By Craig Nelson Let’s be direct:  we have a huge personal stake in the push toward cloud computing. Do companies that move to the cloud still need security professionals? The answer is clear: yes — and even more than ever. We are at the beginning of a huge paradigm shift in the middle of a [...]

Into the Breach – Audio Series – Chapter 8 (Measuring Success)

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Welcome to the continuation of the Into the Breach: Protect Your Business by Managing People, Information and Risk audio series. (Click this link) to learn more about this how this book solves today’s challenges and pick up a complete copy. This series, underwritten by Configuresoft, now part of EMC, is the full and unabridged audio [...]

Leading from the Front: Bringing Planned Disruption To The Organization

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 [...]