Treating Colleagues with Kindness Generates Huge Returns

Dateline: October 13, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. In a society where daily we are confronted with statements of criticism that increase our stress and uncertainty, a recent Harvard Business Review article caught my attention because of it's focus on civility.  These researchers found that treating colleagues with kindness and … [Read more...]

Boards Are Interested in Cybersecurity Too

Dateline: September 29, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. With all the media attention focused on recent cyber events, it's no wonder our Boards are getting involved.  Certainly a catastrophic event such as Equifax experienced recently shows Board leaders that a large vulnerability might exist in their company.  Making sure these … [Read more...]

Cybersecurity: Don’t Leave the Keys Under the Mat

Dateline: September 22, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. With information security in the headlines over the past few weeks, it's also time to remind ourselves that all the technology in the world won't help our organizations be cyber resilient if the people in the organization inadvertaintly create vulnerabilities.  That was the … [Read more...]

Equifax’s Reminder: European GDPR On the Horizon

Dateline: September 15, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. The barrage of articles about Equifax reminds us that our data is not protected, even when we think it is.  As this breach becomes better understood, it raises all types of questions such as how do we protect ourselves? to who would do this? to what is the liability? to will … [Read more...]

Building Your Executive Brand on Your Resume

Dateline: August 18, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Most of our discussions on this blog have to do with activities and actions that lead to better outcomes for your organization.  But today we share an article that can help you personally.  Recently, CIO.com published an article titled IT Resume Makeover: Prove your Path to CIO … [Read more...]

Analytics Can Drive the Wrong Behaviors

Dateline: August 11, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Finding jewels in your data is a blast, but some of the jewels can lead to the wrong behaviors, according to a recent opinion article published at Information Management by journalist Lenny Liebmann titled Four Analytics Errors that can Defeat Data Project Efforts.  The article … [Read more...]

Reducing Cybersecurity Threats From Ex-Employees

Dateline: August 4, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Most cybersecurity breaches are aided by insiders...either intentionally or unintentionally.  But a recent study showed that ex-employees may also be a threat, but this one is more easily managed with the right processes in place.  According to Bob Violino, a free-lance writer … [Read more...]

Machine Learning Shows Promise for Data Security

Dateline: July 28, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Security of our data continues to be a struggle for many information systems leaders.  Recently an article was published at CIO.com titled, Machine Learning is Transforming Data Security. In this article,  data security was thought to be a big problem in part because of the cost, … [Read more...]

Threat Hunting Needs Technology and People

Dateline: July 14, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Continuing on our theme of the organizational side of cybersecurity leadership, this week we look at threat hunting.  A blog titled Threat Hunting and the Pyramid of Pain (written by flOx2208, a "common human being wanting to share my knowledge and experience") suggests that … [Read more...]

Changing Corporate Perception of Cybersecurity

Dateline: June 30, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This past week a new ransomware cyber threat made its way through hundreds of computers.  While not surprising that another attack was launched, what was surprising is that NotPetya exploited the same vulnerability as WannaCry just a few weeks earlier.  It was successful because … [Read more...]