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Enterprise IT Theatre
Enterprise IT is not for the faint hearted. It is where the elegance, precision, sophistication, and reliability, that is inherent in purely technical systems, is applied to large socio-economic...
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The “One Day” Reorganisation
Enterprise reorganisations always risk distracting staff and hurting morale. Productivity drops and goodwill toward the company is smothered. Unfortunately, when a reorganisation is justified, there...
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Maslow’s Theory Applies to the Web
The rapid uptake of the World Wide Web by consumers and businesses is certain to progress well into the future. Unless its gets too dangerous. There is a point where people will turn away from any...
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Cold War Spy’s Fantasy Comes True
In the past, stealing information from foreign governments was very difficult and dangerous. A spy would have to identify an “insider” in the target government who had access to secret information....
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Information Security 101: When is an asset “secure”?
When teaching basic concepts of information security, I think its helpful to start by discussing what the term “secure” means in this context. To make this easier, I defer addressing the difficult...
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Upcoming Security Architecture Workshop in Brisbane
I would like to announce the first Enterprise Security Architecture Workshop to be held for Queensland IT security architects. The workshop will be held in the Brisbane CBD on 11 March 2013. It is...
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A Story of Innovation Failure (Part 1)
This is the tragic tale of how Stale Corporation tried so hard, but failed so spectacularly, when trying to innovate with IT. The CEO of Stale Corporation knew that Stale needed to innovate with IT to...
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A Story of Innovation Failure (Part 2)
This is part 2 of the tragic story of Stale Corporation’s attempt to innovate. Read Part 1 first. Stale Corporation’s CIO, and the rest of the IT Department, were very excited that the panacea...
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Queensland Enterprise Security Architecture Workshop a Winner!
The Queensland Enterprise Security Architecture Workshop we ran on 11 March 2013 exceeded expectations. The event was oversubscribed at 30+ attendees, who represented a variety of industry sectors,...
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Brisbane City Council wins Information Security Award!
Congratulations to everyone at Brisbane City Council for winning the AusCERT 2013 Award for Organisational Excellence in Information Security! The competition was intense this year: there were 11...
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National Security Architecture Workshop a Success!
The national security architecture workshop we ran in conjunction with the 2013 AusCERT Information Security Conference on the Gold Coast was better than we had expected. Participants came from...
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A Story of Innovation Success
This is a story of successful IT innovation in a large enterprise. If you have time, first read “A Story of Innovation Failure“, which will put this story into better perspective. The CIO of Clever...
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Australia’s Digital Future Starts with Coderdojo
I have been mentoring at Coderdojo Brisbane since its inception earlier this year. I became involved when I responded to a request for volunteers to help children learn to develop software, which I...
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AusCERT 2017 presentation on cyber security defence preparation for high...
It was good to finally receive the opportunity to describe our experience preparing the cyber defence of Brisbane City Council for the Brisbane G20 event. The talk was very well attended because...
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GC2018 presentation at the Joint Cyber Security Centre
The Joint Cyber Security Centre (JCSC) is an initiative of the Australian Government’s Cyber Security Strategy and is led by the Attorney-General’s Department, CERT Australia. I was asked to give a...
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Advancing Cyber Security in Brisbane
My presentation at the Brisbane Cyber Security Meetup group I have assumed the leadership role of the Brisbane Cyber Security Meetup, which has about 800 members. As an introduction I gave a...
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What is a Security Operations Centre?
Our Brisbane Cyber Security group was fortunate to have received an excellent presentation about the purpose and construction of a Security Operation Centre (SOC) from Juan Van Tonder, who serves as...
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