Articles on Leadership

• Risk Management Why Are Executives More Prone to Accept Risks?
  Research links high status and power to greater trust in others and overconfidence in one's own knowledge. Executives may accept security risks while being overly trusting and without spending...
• Career The Role of a Resume in an IT Job Search
  A resume primarily helps get past initial HR screening to reach the hiring manager—the real engagement happens afterward. Every bullet point should answer "So What?" by stating accomplishments rather...
• Social Networking Twitter Social Networking Among Information Security People
  Twitter offers three-fold value for security professionals: discovering curated content (users act as content curators), interacting with peers (social stigmas almost non-existent), and researching...
• Leadership Saying Something Nice About Information Security
• Tools Common Failures of Information Security Tools (Part 2)
  HIPS can miss attacks or wrongly block legitimate actions. Log management may fail to capture necessary events or confuse analysts with poor reporting. Vulnerability management tools may miss patches...
• Risk Management How Information Security Professionals Are Different