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Want Better Cyber Pros? Focus on Foundations
It’s a little over five minutes into the movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World . The HMS Surprise is sailing through fog while searching for its nemesis, the French privateer ship Acheron, the most advanced naval technology at the time. A seaman up in the sails calls out to the officer of the watch, Midshipman Hollom, that he hears what he thinks is a bell. Hollom peers through the fog with his looking glass. He thinks he briefly sees something, but he’s no
Douglas Gray
Oct 135 min read


Develop Cyber Professionals in Three Dimensions
To help offset the shortage of cyber professionals, we need a map for setting up our current people for maximum success. To support this, I introduce the Cyber Success Vector™, a model for that three-dimensional approach. The three factors are: Breadth : ensuring the team member has solid professional basics and work-role-specific knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA). Scope : as the team member moves up in scope of responsibility, newly required KSAs are developed. Depth
Douglas Gray
Oct 134 min read


Focus on People to Improve Cybersecurity
Information technology (IT) is first and foremost a human endeavor. It’s a tool, one created by humans, run by humans, and that supports human needs. In cyber, we must focus on the basics, putting the human at the center of the solution. Those basics are: Developing complete, balanced, growth-oriented leaders throughout the cyber organization, from executives to individual contributors. Achieving not just coordination or collaboration but synergy . Infecting the culture wi
Douglas Gray
Oct 136 min read


The Cyber Success Vector™ Manifesto
The Cyber Success Vector™ promotes a way to optimize the human element of cyber. Cloud, Big Data, AI, Zero Trust: they’re all critical...
Douglas Gray
Oct 123 min read
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