There are no winners in war. In M*A*S*H 4077, a series situated during the Korean War, Hawkeye Pierce famously said “Hell is where the sinners go, war is where the innocent suffer” and there is more truth in that statement than any claim of victory or winning in war. Conflicts end with destruction and either […]
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Focus on external security is not enough. Cyber Security must assume that the infrastructure is already penetrated. It is not uncommon that cybercriminals penetrate information infrastructure without actually weaponizing their access immediately. Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) very gradually increase their access and focus on staying undetected. Post Mortem analyzes after APT attacks show that it
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Cyber Security requires a big picture approach in an era where digital transformation is a success enabler. Those who can balance this will win the markets. Digital Transformation creates an unforeseen challenge for many organizations. How can we generate a change management culture that happily embraces changes and at the same time maintain rigid controls
Rigid plans and Agile are not a good mix As Alex Yakyma famously said: “Executing fixed-scope projects with Agile is akin to rearranging the deck furniture on the Titanic… creates a great sense of security and order but we know how it all ends. It also makes it harder to ever change that organization’s mindset,
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The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. – Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker We have all been in situation where our schedule is so full that all we can do is take it heads on and work our way through. For some of us that is in
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Kindness is still seen as weakness by too many. In many minds strength is still linked to alpha-like behavior. The tough guys, the bad boys and the mean ladies get the most attention, and are unfortunately admired by a lot of youngsters. Kindness on the other hand is often mistaken for weakness. Kind leaders tend
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Get the right things done the right way. By design! We have created a digital culture in which value creation is key. Agile and Design Thinking are all about that. Creating value and including the customers throughout the process. Testing concepts and ideas as soon as possible. Demos and prototypes to generate customer feedback and
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Threats and risks continue to change, so should your actions. There isn’t field in which threats evolve as fast as in cybersecurity. Besides a constantly growing number of new threats, there is also the challenge that existing threats keep mutating and get more advanced. In addition to modifying the ways of distribution and attacks, these
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Agile is all about changes. Controlled changes. Experimental changes. And sometimes even spontaneous changes before all the answers and results are known. The Agile culture is a happy change culture. Change is a constant element in every Agile process and should be embraced and celebrated because change done right always leads to improvements. Creating value
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Solve today’s challenges before they become tomorrow’s problems. Many motivational coaches will tell us that there is no such things as problems. In their line of thoughts, there are only challenges and it all depends on our attitude about those challenges. Although it will sound overly simplified for someone who is facing real problems on
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