To Boldly Begin
Heather Noggle
Technologist | Speaker | Writer | Editor | Strategist | Systems Thinker | Cybersecurity | Controlled Chaos for Better Order | Musician
Everything's related. Connected.
The Internet (I still intentionally capitalize it, though Wired stopped in 2004, I think) makes it all related. Your business is online.
We talk in cybersecurity about the known unknowns - threat vectors.? Threat hunting. We can list a litany of things where we know only about a small percent of what we need to.? Timing and impact are some of the bigger unknowns. When the next disruptive technology or threat will arrive.
Uncover the unknown knowns. This is the data we have that can be used in insights if it's organized. The data that's not yet information.? The information that could be reformed to knowledge.
How can you secure what you can't identify and use? What do we have, and how do we use (and secure) it? Classify it?
In other words, <blink>WHERE DO WE START WITH INFORMATION SECURITY</blink>??
Wrote about that here more generally for PurpleSec's AI & Cybersecurity Insights newsletter.
5 Truths
?It Begins with Leadership
?(Next) The Early Iterations of Intentional Cybersecurity
?And After That? Make a plan.
?Planning and Strategy - Maintain and Improve
?Continuous Improvement Builds Maturity
It's all one big cycle from a governance perspective. The right order of operations - well, that takes into account your risk posture, your compliance needs, and where you are now.
Read the whole thing - https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/small-business-cybersecurity-planning-purple-sec-xhybe/?trackingId=Tv7XjTtgTUOU5wddxOQTvg%3D%3D
Read more about PurpleSec LLC
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The Impossible Dream?
Walk with me into the writing portion of this newsletter.
Split infinitives - avoid them in formal writing.
I challenge you thus to intentionally avoid the split infinitive.? There's today's writing lesson.
What's an infinitive?? Why must it remain whole?
The Impossible Dream will tell you, and here's my favorite version. Straight outta La Mancha - but now set in space - the first two stanzas:
To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star
Do you see what's common here?? To+verb. That's an infinitive, so this could be renamed to "The Infinitive Song"
Someone needs to make a symphonic metal version of this, yes?? Who's on that? Lyrics sure make me want to tilt at windmills or fight the cybersecurity fight.
Now, why are infinitives important, and why must we fight to keep them whole?? Infinitives take a verb and transform, transmogrify, transduce - whatever - the verb phrase into a noun, adverb, or adjective.? Magic!?
If we split them, the magic goes away.? The most famous split infinitive?
"To boldly go where no man has gone before..."
Yeah, don't do that.? It breaks your grammatical correctness. In your writing, recognize that "boldly" interloper and kick him right on outta there with a sentence rewrite.
And now you know. And you'll remember.
Live long and prosper.?
P.S. Did you catch all of my split infinitive(s) in this newsletter?
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Other Homes
Here are some places I write that I haven't yet mentioned here:
Unite (monthly) - https://unitenewsonline.org/current-issue/
Hackwoods - beginning here and building a schedule - https://hackwoods-academy-v001.web.app/
I'm looking to do more podcasts and have a few planned conversations in the pipeline.
Also, I'm considering submitting a talk for the NWA Tech Summit conference in October.? Cybersecurity and phases, based on CIS v8 and a few other fun variables. Now that I've called it out publicly, guess I'd better get on that.
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In Case You Missed Them
Two weeks - a retrospective of the better Heather Noggle LinkedIn posts.
??Microsoft Copilot (and likely all AI) will amplify what you do wrong and what you do right - that "AI is a robotic arm" argument. https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/heathernoggle_copilot-amplifies-insecure-codebases-by-replicating-activity-7172645622972440576-HcCO
??Celebrating women in tech and bad chocolate puns. https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/heathernoggle_cybersecurity-internationalwomensday2024-activity-7171853732115009537-ZTbT
??Export Compliance and Cybersecurity - Insider Threat and when information crosses borders, even deemed borders. https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/heathernoggle_cybersecurity-informationsecurity-deemedexports-activity-7171498538453966850-YcTW
??Zero Day is not a band (except it is, we later learned) - https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/heathernoggle_ios-securityupdates-patch-activity-7171131801770418176-sZiL
??Thou Shalt Not Ship to Huawei (probably) - learning about Restricted Parties and screening them - https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/heathernoggle_cybersecurity-tradecompliance-restrictedpartyscreening-activity-7170780118200598528-A1x_
??Introducing the Noggle Poet GPT - https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/heathernoggle_chatgpt-customgpt-poetry-activity-7170041068309213185-RS4r
??Procrastination and Arthroscopy - a science fair project - https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/heathernoggle_sciencefair-creatvity-procrastination-activity-7168956975320420354-GstY?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
??NIST CSF and The Anatomy of a Clean Bedroom - https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/heathernoggle_my-favorite-loose-household-governance-activity-7168592207992610816-6d4J
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Upcoming Free Conferences!
The Springfield Tech Council hosts STC Squared each March, and this year's is March 27, 2024.? You can attend the one-day conference FREE until we're at capacity of 600ish people.? (You'll want to grab a ticket now).
Also in April is Walmart's Sp4rkcon at their headquarters in Bentonville, AR.? Last year's was an absolute treat.? This is also FREE, but you must register. April 20, 2024.
(Problem with loading the full page at the time I was writing this)
Hoping for NO HAIL this year.
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Please, Let's Talk
Like, subscribe, reach out for a conversation - DM me with some topics.? Tell me when I goof, as I do.
I'm available for podcast conversations, some additional Codistac work, sharing humor worse than dad jokes, and the best chocolate chip cookie recipe on the planet.
Bonus Video: Backups, a picture of my grandfather, and an interloper black cat -
Another newsletter in two weeks' time.
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Raptorguard LLC Cybersecurity and Compliance / Oklahoma State Cowboy
1 年Great read Heather!
Digital technology professional | Futurist | Getting BS in AI/ML and Cybersecurity | AAS in Cybersecurity | CompTIA Security+ certification
1 年Love this! Thank you for another wonderful read.