Two's a Charming Bureaucratic Voilence

First, two (yes) quotes: To put it crudely: it is not so much that bureaucratic procedures are inherently stupid, or even that they tend to produce behaviour that they themselves define as stupid — though they do do that — but rather, that they are invariably ways of managing social situations that are already stupid … Continue reading “Two's a Charming Bureaucratic Voilence”

Disciplined away from bureaucracy

After some thought on bureaucracy on either side of the Big Pond, it suddenly dawned on me how to explain the seeming (of course) paradox: At the Western shores, a lot of military with front line battle experience (and some, only a bit less so), possibly out of reserve functions in mundane business, have gone … Continue reading “Disciplined away from bureaucracy”

The Good Bad and Bureaucrats

Musing with the distinction between Bad and Evil (as here), and how Anger of the right kind (good to be bad b/c without/opposing evil intent) would be neither but the diametrical opposite of the former two’s effects in bureaucracy. Noting that praxis makes the things get mixed up, as in: [Supreme distort; DC]

Fortune on bureaucracy: It must die.

Simply putting it here for you, snapped from Fortune (no less). Don’t say I didn’t warn you. The organizations that survive in the coming decades will be those that are capable of change as fast as change itself. Today, few organizations seem to be able to out-run change for more than a few years at … Continue reading “Fortune on bureaucracy: It must die.”

RM/ISO27kx/… meets Von Moltke

Ah, now I see: All the nice (and so utmostly necessary) work on Risk Management the Real Kind – Quantitative, driven top-down from business objectives down to tech control / parameter settings, all the way mixed with qualitative sense-making and sensibility checks –, COSO/CObIT/ISO2700x/CSF/…/…/… my keyboard is running out of ‘…’, will fail for a … Continue reading “RM/ISO27kx/… meets Von Moltke”

Hacking a hacker’s mind; een boekbespreking

Aanbevelenswaard, dit: Bruce Schneier’s A Hacker’s Mind. Onderstaande een bespreking zijnde tevens een vorm van samenvatting. Als u denkt hee Bruce heeft het anders nooit zo over audits dan zijn die stukjes juist mijn bijdrage. Als u denkt dit is opiniërend of erger, dan hebt u juist Bruce’s mening/content te pakken..! Here we go: Na … Continue reading “Hacking a hacker’s mind; een boekbespreking”

AutoAuto’s blijven een droom

Tsja, auto’s, ‘artificial intelligence’ en security: Het is het bekende verhaal. Nog steeds … Zijn er technologische of andere ontwikkelingen de afgelopen halve eeuw waarbij security-in-brede-zin nou eens echt vanaf het begin is meegenomen, of blijven we met alle OT-dingen om ons heen doorgaan met de put dempen, security er een beetje (sic) opschroeven als … Continue reading “AutoAuto’s blijven een droom”

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