I’ve been out of the CISO world for 3.5 months now, and that’s given me a lot of perspective. I’ve had a chance to reflect on what I’ve learned over 30 years in IT and spoke to a bunch of people recently.

I can summarize what organizations need to do to better secure their data, prevent ransomware and whatnot:

Stop fucking around.

I think that will be the title of my book.

@jerry

pairs well with Mythical Man Month

@jerry have you considered that maybe people like fucking around?
@luzkenin oh they absolutely do love it. And I guess that’s why we have jobs.

@jerry @luzkenin

But they really hate finding our. Except for the CEOs, they just move on to the next batch of venture capital.

@jerry gov't policy/telecom goverance is mandated to be insecure by design - you are bucking the status quo here - it is for 'reasons' above all our pay grades; seriously though hopefully your message will be heard by policy makers who set the tone #fill it to the rim with brim
@jerry
one of us
one of us
one of us!
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@jerry Corellary: Best of breed is an awful strategy.

If your team is wasting time filling out spreadsheets to score security solutions, you're doing it wrong.

@jerry

Do let us know when you launch the Kickstarter for the book.

I'll buy it just for that title.

Perhaps @effinbirds could do the dust jacket design 🙂🤷‍♂️

@jerry Just replying to say congratulations on 30 years, and that I identified with what you said. I too am out of the CISO chair and have been using my time to reground and refocus myself. Gather up all those nuggets and urges after all this time, put them to work.
Leaving the role, as much good as I did. was freeing - Anyway, exciting right? now we can reapply ourselves and hammer on some big problems we always knew needed time and focus.
And increased time for self care ain't bad either 😀 Cheers.

@jerry

Where can I preorder said book? I think I might need to stop fucking around.

@jerry But then how will we “find out”?

@jerry I feel like I’m reading that book to my employer now!

The Find Out sequel be great as well!

Let us know when we need to fund the Kickstarter!

@jerry Nice TED talk. Glad I came to it.

@jerry Please have a chapter on data governance strategy.

"Pick your data. Pick ... pick less data. Put some back. That's too many datas."