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Highlights from Day 1 of RSA:

I attended the professional development track, and pulled most of these quotes from there. Follow me on twitter to see what strikes my fancy in real-time.

• Remember that being a security leader is first and foremost about leading. Too often we get bogged down in management. Managers deal with complexity, scheduling and resource allocation. Leaders deal with setting a direction and figuring out how to get there. The quote which was used in this session, which I love, was “managers follow a map, leaders follow a compass.”
• The biggest key to the success of … Continue Reading
  

Security impact of putting it in the cloud

It seems you can’t make it through any IT related article or meeting these days without a discussion of “the cloud.” Every CEO wants to know how the cloud can improve innovation and productivity, and every CFO wants to know when we’re going to move to the cloud to dramatically cut the costs of doing business. Most CISOs are just scared to think about all that data sitting outside our firewalls.

In the security arena our job is to help identify and quantify the risks associated with such a move. The risks of an … Continue Reading