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Security is a strategic concern (posted by Fabien Villard)

Here is an interesting point of view on security business today from an IBM Security Strategist: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/081709-8-dirty-secrets-of-the.html Among the eight points some are tightly related to enterprise strategy and enterprise architecture. Points 2, 6 and 7 focus on external concerns, regulations and security product vendors, but  others may be summarized like this: what do I [...]

Bruce Schneier on Risk Intuition (posted by Fabien Villard)

Here is a very good post of security guru Bruce Schneier on how we as individuals are good at evaluating risks: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/risk_intuition.html. We often hear that people do not follow rules because they do not understand risks and Schneier shows us that the error is to forget that we do not live in a world [...]

A reference from an Open Source supporter (posted by Fabien Villard)

On March 2007, Tristan Nitot has written a word about Praxeme. Even if it’s a little word and an old news, it is important because Tristan is a great defender of open standards and Open Source community.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar (Eric Steven Raymond) (posted by Fabien Villard)

In 1999 when I joined an Open Source community to port a software on VMS systems, this essay was a must reading for all Open Source fans. It represented some kind of a first description of methods used in Open Source groups. At this time Open Source was seen as parallel system for software editing [...]

Dead Poets Society (posted by Fabien Villard)

This is one of my favorite movies. Not for the poetry, I’m not very found of it. But for the main message: open-mindedness. When Prof. Keating climbs on the desk to explain how things that we know must be challenged by looking them from another point of view, I always have a special feeling of [...]