In this episode, I am delighted to chat to Dr. Daniel Dresner. Daniel’s LinkedIn profile tells us he is a consulting research analyst and lecturer. His mission is to find the threads that bind information together and mend them when they break. He contributed material to the Cyber Essentials and worked with a colleague to define…
In this episode, I am delighted to be chatting to Sarah Clarke. Sarah is a well known privacy and security blogger (www.infospectives.co.uk) armed with over 15 years practical experience. After a business degree she tried out a few roles before finding IT. Since then she has worked across many sectors in IT Security, Information Security, Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, &…
On this episode I am delighted to be joined by Tracy Maleeff, she is the owner of an independent research business, Sherpa Intelligence LLC. She was most recently the Library Resources Manager at Duane Morris LLP in Philadelphia. She earned her MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and has undergraduate degrees from both Temple University…
In our first episode, I was delighted to be joined by Graham Cluley. Graham Cluley is a security blogger, researcher and public speaker. He has been a well-known figure in the computer security industry since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon’s Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. To follow and…
One of the biggest mistakes people make in Negotiations is to lack due attentiveness throughout the procedure. Attentiveness means having a higher level of awareness of what is being said and, almost more importantly, what is not being said. I have read lots of articles and comments recently on this topic urging people to “listen…
Peacocks are a particularly daft bird. They are all mouth and pretty feathers but an absolute pain in the neck to be around, (apologies to peacock lovers everywhere.) I don’t really hate peacocks but their less than admirable qualities do remind me of some of the gurus I have met along my merry way who…
A while ago on LinkedIn I posted the following riddle and its answer. It got lots of interaction because EVERYONE when they put their minds to it, likes to think of themselves as a Social Engineer, at least some of the time! Here’s a Social Engineering riddle, answer below. A few years ago…
A while ago, I was speaking at a conference in the north of England. I wasn’t especially enamoured of the topic and was doing it as a favour for the organiser who was an old friend. I wasn’t “on” until late afternoon so I had a few hours to kill after lunch at the hotel….
A couple of years ago at a conference in Texas I heard the phrase “in the weeds.” It means being in the sort of situation where you get so emerged in the details “the weeds” that it is hard to get any kind of productive perspective, or non-biased view. The English equivalent phrase would…
I was recently reminded of the saying “perfect is the enemy of good”and this got me thinking about personal demons and the things that block our creativity, productivity and ability to meet our goals. Years ago I worked for a ferocious Irish director who was feared and admired in equal measure. He was great at…
