What if? What if instead of business people being told to justify their plans to security, security had to advise the business regarding the operational impact of their new patches, firewall rules, badging policies, etc?
What if instead of a security audit for operations, there were an operations audit for security?
What if the business people had [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
What if Security reported to Operations?
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Helplessly Hoping
So the Crosby Stills & Nash tour rolled into Wolf Trap last night. Perfect weather, white wine kiosks, seats under the canopy – a perfect night. Gentle times, listening to legends (this is their 40th year playing together) and grooving to nostalgia.
Until Graham Nash decided to play Joel Rafael’s “This is My Country.” Seems talk [...]
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Human Distribution
Spent yesterday’s treadmill time watching Clay Shirky’s talk at TedTalks 2005 yesterday. I believe the implications of his talk energized me as much as the “exercise” (ok, so I just walk for 30 minutes – it’s a start). His central thesis was that the low transaction costs of communication meant that new forms of organization may be [...]
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KM Mentoring, Episode 1
My brother-in-law is an economist by training, and imparted the following wisdom to me last week: Every bottle of wine costs no more than $2.50 to produce, the rest is just a lot of hands picking your pocket. Which got me to thinking: how do you account for the delta between $2.50 and $40, [...]
Is Knowledge a Product or Process?
A debate is underway, or should I say continues, regarding the nature of knowledge. If this sounds like an obscure debate regarding philosophy, cognitive science, and complexity, well, it is. But it also drives management behaviors if you are to tackle KM.
Either knowledge is inherently personal, inextricably connected to experience, unarticulated brain functions, culture – [...]
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I’ve been asked to mentor someone in KM
This proves a timely request, as I face termination from my day job due to an inability to convince the Decider that the CKO position is still required and worth the investment. Surrounded by C2 management and fiscal leadership, and subordinated to a CIO who is truly a systems manager rather than an information officer [...]
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