by Alex W. | Sep 11, 2012 | Community and Society, Cybersecurity, Government large and small, Identity, Individual and Personal Resilience
“Trust is the currency of the new economy” You may have heard recently about the efforts being promoted by the USA and Australia amongst others to promote trusted online identities. There are also significant efforts in the private sector to develop online...
by Alex W. | Aug 22, 2012 | Community and Society, Cybersecurity, Government large and small, Quirky
I’ve been thinking for the best part of the last decade about Internet governance and its impact on national security. In that time, little has changed to improve security for users. The Internet as we know it today can be compared in many ways to the high seas...
by Alex W. | Aug 16, 2012 | Community and Society, Government large and small, Individual and Personal Resilience, management and leadership, Organisations
Resilience I’ve been trying to summarise organisational resilience into a form that can be visualised for some of the people who I’m working with. The key has been to summarise the thinking on resilience as succinctly as possible. Apart from the diagram...
by Alex W. | Aug 3, 2012 | Cybersecurity, Government large and small, Organisations, Practical
This might seem a brave call when talking about cyber-security threat information. But the truth is that the cyber world forces a new paradigm on security. The tools that are familiar in the offline world for providing elements of security, such as obscurity, tend to...
by Alex W. | Jul 10, 2012 | Community and Society, Government large and small, management and leadership, Organisations, Quirky
The quote above has been often misattributed to Charles Darwin. But according to the Darwin project, it is actually a quote from Leon Megginson* in the 1960s paraphrasing Darwin in a management journal. Now that I have done my bit to put that meme to bed, it is worth...
by Alex W. | Jun 25, 2012 | Community and Society, Government large and small, Quirky
Nice simple awareness raising video from the UN trying to spread the message about disaster resilience for...
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