Schneier on Security

Rhys • May 27, 2017 1:20 AM

@Deimos

Were being well read an attribute for ascending the power structure of a business, how many sitting executives would you site as a share of US corporate leadership? How many would “ascribe” their ascendance based on the readings in, say, security? Or intelligence gathering?

Still- our headlines are filled with disgust of the Silverback culture that prevails in corporate leadership and cultures.

If leadership is doing the right things, not doing things right- that’s where a schism begins.

What executive or board has changed its position on uninsured liability as a result of the last 5 years worth of security events? (If reading doesn’t change anything- than what is the point? Which accounting rules on contingent liabilities are reflective of valuations or now identified in audits? Is Anthem’s Chair/CEO/still there? Are corporations still asking for government intervention/protection from internet vulnerabilities? Do we now have business models reliant wholly on freebooted information? Using tools that they howl about when subsequently applied to them? )

There aren’t bookshelves big enough to hold the number from a decade, or decades worth, of reading. Some read the publications in the language it was actually written in first.

Parading around a reading list is something closer to the value sets in “Dress for Success”. Or like the ‘ego wall’ with diplomas and accolades. (Lessons once given to all Si Ramo’s novitiates as unacceptable.)

Your reference to the use of hyperbole in the title being a material clue, hopefully, there are skills also to distinguish science from scientism.