Executives that plan to open thier own shop

Here are few things that change when this happens. The best defense is to be prepared for these…

1. They must be all things to all people
2. They are constantly being distracted by small things
3. They lose influence and prestige
4. They are unnervingly vulnerable
5. They have little control over their time

What It Means to Work Here

Another excellent article at HBR. This one talks about different employee motivations and how companies should be aware of this while hiring.

To summaries, Here are the 3 things companies can do to foster deeply committed employees,

• A comprehensive understanding of the types of people who will be productive in your organization over the long term. What kinds of skills should they have? What should be their attitudes toward work?

 

• A well-defined, well-communicated signature experience that conveys for potential hires and reinforces for employees the attributes and values of the organization.

• A coherent employee experience—none of your company’s environmental elements misrepresents what it’s really like to work there.

So what kind of employee are you?

5 Mistakes of Data Encryption

1. Use encryption

2. Do not invent crypto protocol

3. do not hard code secrets

4. do not store keys and data at the same place

5. Backup and handle data recovery. What if the only person who knows is hit by a bus?

Data Corelation for Security Vulnerabilities

This needs to be done for the security industry. Number of vulnerabilities found for in authentication, authorization, data vallidation, session management / bad crypto and errors.  I am sure there is some project somewhere doing this. The great thing would be for someeone like CERT / Security Focus to do this since they have a list of all public application security vulnerabilities…

January 2007 – Vuln Scorecard

I just posted my January 2007 – Operating System Vulnerability Scorecard over on CSOOnline, which includes charts comparing the vulnerabilities in Windows, Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu, Sun, and Mac OS X, broken down by server and workstation.

I do include the first 2 months of Windows Vista as well, which had no vulns fixed in that time period.  As a teaser, here is one of the 4 charts from the post:

I plan to update this monthly throughout the year, and will include newer products when they are released.

Filed under: Security, Linux, Studies, Windows vs Linux, Windows, Vista, Red Hat, Microsoft, Ubuntu, Mac OS X

Source: Jeff Jones Security Blog : January 2007 – Vuln Scorecard

Noah Coad’s Code : Your Bugs Are Our Top Priority

Very interesting connect.microsoft.com URL. I have to say, Microsoft is really ahead the curve with security now a days, almost too much ahead I think.

Link to Noah Coad’s Code : Your Bugs Are Our Top Priority

Influential Interactive Marketing: Understanding The 12 Main Sources of Blog Traffic

Interesting read… 

Link to Influential Interactive Marketing: Understanding The 12 Main Sources of Blog Traffic

Monetizing WordPress Plugins « Lorelle on WordPress

Very interesting… looks like hosting your blog on wordpress does not have any of these plugins…will be doing more reserach but for now, it looks like I have 2 options

1. Get some hosting space with PHP-MySQL, install WordPress and use these

2. Script these on the current blog

Any other ideas?

Link to Monetizing WordPress Plugins « Lorelle on WordPress

Your Development as an Authentic Leader

 

Reading this great article from HBR.  At some point I need to sit and answer these questions

Your Development as an Authentic Leader

As you read this article, think about the basis for your leadership development and the path you need to follow to become an authentic leader. Then ask yourself these questions:
1. Which people and experiences in your early life had the greatest impact on you?
2. What tools do you use to become self-aware? What is your authentic self? What are the moments when you say to yourself, this is the real me?
3. What are your most deeply held values? Where did they come from? Have your values changed significantly since your childhood? How do your values inform your actions?
4. What motivates you extrinsically? What are your intrinsic motivations? How do you balance extrinsic and intrinsic motivation in your life?
5. What kind of support team do you have? How can your support team make you a more authentic leader? How should you diversify your team to broaden your perspective?
6. Is your life integrated? Are you able to be the same person in all aspects of your life—personal, work, family, and community? If not, what is holding you back?
7. What does being authentic mean in your life? Are you more effective as a leader when you behave authentically? Have you ever paid a price for your authenticity as a leader? Was it worth it?
8. What steps can you take today, tomorrow, and over the next year to develop your authentic leadership?

Source: Your Development as an Authentic Leader

Test from MarsEdit – A Mac OS X client

my first post from my new macbook. Just bought this few days back. Traded the PowerPC powerbook for this one. It should be great to carry specially on my one day trips to make presentations…

Looking forward

Prepared statements and SQL Injection

A good reminder that all prepared statements do not prevent SQL Injection!!

SANS Internet Storm Center; Cooperative Network Security Community – Internet Security – isc