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Apr 29
Adobe’s name is mud
More is coming out about the loss of the “keys to the Kingdom” at RSA. For a great discussion of this and other security topics follow the Security Now! Podcast and the archive at GRC.com In short a user just opened a spreadsheet. A small group of RSA employees received a targeted spearfishing email, which …
Apr 15
Compliance testing
I was chased today to complete my overdue mandatory compliance training. So I spent a few hours completing the training and the test. The result? “Test Passed The exam contained 14 questions, of which you answered 13 correctly, or 93%. These are the questions you answered incorrectly: What are the consequences of failing to complete …
Apr 15
Coach a team with 100 words
Footballers are not known for their extensive vocabularies. So it was hard to tell whether it was a compliment or an insult when Italian Fabio Capello, England’s football coach, said he could manage the national team using just 100 words. “If I need to speak about the economy or other things, I can’t speak,” he …
Apr 12
Phishermans Friend
I get an email from McKinsey. “Someone you have never heard of has lost your data.” I was not alone. Epsilon, a marketing services company that sends 40 billion e-mails a year has been hacked. An estimated 2% of its customer date has been “exposed”. As with the recent major leak at RSA, Epsilon has …
Apr 01
Break in at the locksmith
The IT security world was rocked by the publication of an open letter, written by security vendor RSA boss Art Coviello on 18 March. In the letter he said the company had ‘identified an extremely sophisticated cyber-attack in progress’. ‘An investigation has led us to believe that the attack is in the category of an …
Mar 29
Social Security Payments
Madison Kay spent $1,400 on bushels of Smurfberries. Aside from illustrating the need for Stephanie Kay to keep one-click ordering away from her eight year old daughter, it also illustrates the bushels of money to be made from virtual worlds: with $99 for a barrow load of smurfberries in a game ostensibly for children, what …
Mar 22
The Project Mahout
How do you get an elephant from A to B? There are four ways: You can Push it, Pull it, Pick it up and carry it, or You can climb up onto the elephants back and whisper in its ear “There is a bun in that direction.” In change management, the subject has got to …
Jan 03
Keep your plans agile and objectives personal
Your project plans need to be detailed for the near term so that everyone knows: What they are working on, What their accountability is for the deliverables and quality and How this fits into the greater objective. The only thing that is certain about a long-term detailed plan is that it will be wrong. PMs can …
Jun 17
The Global Project Managers toolkit
As you venture forth on a multinational project delivery, what tools you need to increase the chances of success? As soon as you start to cross borders, the geographic and cultural separation mean that the trusted team management techniques such as “Management by walking around” and “the team that drinks together, thinks together” no longer …