Ideas From Me
The best solutions to your problem already exist in another field. They address underlying dynamics rather than surface symptoms. In cybersecurity, looking at areas like behavioral economics, marketing communication, and public health can offer insight and ideas.
Manhole covers fell through manholes before they were round. Similarly, cybersecurity frameworks fail in a business context because they don't recognize the nature of the problem, which is a business problem.
Encountering poorly framed ideas, especially our own, presents an opportunity to step back and examine assumptions. The way we measure success shapes what we do; if no one outside our in-group is interested in any of our metrics, it raises the question of what “cybersecurity success” means—not to us, but to the business.
Ideas From Others
The test of originality for an idea is not the absence of one single predecessor but the presence of multiple but incompatible ones. —Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. —Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Question For You
What conventional wisdom in cybersecurity leadership do you disagree with, and what will you replace it with?