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173 - Scaling a community

This last few weeks, there's been a lot of discussion around whether Facebook is a net positive for society or not.

172 - How do we secure the future of work

I don't think we yet know where the future of work is going, let alone how to secure it.

171 - Managing your risk from vendors

We’re going to hear a lot about supply chains over the next few years. This is going to be the next big thing in security, and luckily, lots of smart people are already working on subsets of the problem.

170 - Culture eats strategy for breakfast

It’s long been said that Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

169 - Knowing how it’s used

The products and services that we offer to our users and customers is something we can only improve if we actually understand how it is being used.

168 - The modern cloud is different

I think I’ve said this before, and I’m sure I’m repeating myself, but lifting and shifting your data centre into the cloud isn’t actually a good idea.

167 - We rely on our suppliers

Supply chains have been a cybersecurity issue since well before the Solarwinds hack, but have risen to prominance in the last year.

166 - Defending against ransomware

Ransomware infection is almost certainly the single most impactful cybersecurity incident that your company or organisation could suffer from.

165 - Taking time to relax

Last weeks issue seems to have hit a chord with people.

164 - Investing in your staff for a better future

The last 18 months has been a particularly rough time for lots of people.

163 - Passing on knowledge

We're bad as an industry at passing on knowledge. Much of the digital transformation of the last 10 years was a repeat, or reapplication of the agile evolution in software development, which mostly came from the agile manifesto from 2001. But much of that was taken by people who learned the lessons that manufacturing had to learn from Toyota and the Toyota Production System from as late as 1975. We can trace OKR's back through Google to Intel, and back to Andy Grove in the 70's.

162 - Whose data is it?

It’s easy to think of data as being very similar to physical property, this is my browsing data, that is your personally identifiable information, and data is like toxic waste that needs to be minimally collected and stored.