Cyber Defense Matrix by Sounil Yu Executive Summary (For General Audiences) I read this book around 2022 so that I could really understand how the Cybersecurity Framework benefits the company I was working at. We were all about the NIST 800-53 and I personally felt going to the CSF was a step down. I should have…
If you thought The Phoenix Project was a wild ride through IT survivalism, strap in. Once you get past the trauma bonding of watching Bill Palmer fight fires, you eventually arrive at the ultimate question: “Okay, but how do I actually fix this shit-show in real life without losing my mind?” Enter The DevOps Handbook…
About a handful of years ago, this was required reading for cybersecurity senior leadership. Considering how large our cybersecurity team was after our acquisition, it was necessary and helpful. In 1999, Captain L. David Marquet was assigned to take command of the USS Santa Fe, a nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine. Marquet faced two distinct, overwhelming obstacles…
I was introduced to Traction about 8 years ago as of this writing and I found it actually really good to drive the company forward strategically and operationally. Instead of wasting time trying to decipher vague goals or weird office politics, this book gave me a simple lens to size things up fast: There’s a…
OMG I loved the chaos of the Phoenix Project! Reading this, you’ll find a resemblance to The Goal and… Spoiler Alert! It is inspired by it. I think I loved reading this because I could relate so well to the $hit-show that the main character gets put into and it reminded me of joining a…
Like other books that I have read, there is entirely too much text in the book, Good to Great to get the point across. In summary though, this book is about getting to be from a decent company to a really good company. The methodology is about mindset… Leveraging the Fox and the Hedgehog. In…
I read this book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, some time ago. I even took a class about it. The 7 habits are: Adopting these habits, to me, was beneficial firstly at work. It helped when I was trying to get into leadership. I do hate having to read books that go on…