Hiring the unhireable: Embrace failure
Part 5 of 16 Airline pilots don’t learn how to fly. They learn how to safely crash. Security folks learn how to fly the networks – not how to survive a crash. (See the disconnect?) As a society, and I […]
Hiring the unhireable: Celsius or Fahrenheit?
Part 4 of 16 Degrees? To hell with them. “Only those with a BS or MS need apply.” Talk about an arbitrary discriminator of zero value. By that standard, I am worthlessly unemployable. By that standard, a majority of my
Hiring the unhireable: Vive La Difference!
Part 3 of 16 Fast forward. What type of discrimination do we see today? I am focusing on IT and information security. Piercing, tattoos and other body adornments? In my day, long hair and jeans with sneakers were the visual
Hiring the unhireable: Winn can’t get a job
Part 2 of 16 Back in the day (1969-70), I desperately wanted to get a tremendous education. I lived in Manhattan and I wanted to go to work at the best company there was at the time and become a
Hiring the unhireable: It’s time we get over ourselves
Part 1 of 16 I was the victim of discrimination. As a white male, at the tender young age of 18, in New York City. But I digress. My ideas on Hiring the Unhireable began at the RSA 2012 conference
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Stop inflight entertainment in the interest of public safety
I and many of my security professional colleagues are not so sure that it’s safe to fly anymore. I know I cannot, without any level of confidence, say whether inflight onboard networks are secure, or whether they present a clear
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