Author, Author! Accolades for The CISO Group
As any longtime blogger will tell you, sometimes you write articles and wonder “is there anyone besides my Mom who is reading this?’” If what you write is geeky about security, you even doubt that your Mom will read it. So it is refreshing when what you do is noticed and appreciated by your friends and peers. This is even more important when you decide to dive in and start blogging. A little pat on the back and encouragement goes a long way. For that reason I was really happy for all of my CISO Group partners who are starting to get noticed by the security blogosphere.
First last week it was Josh Karp, that Mike Rothman mentioned as inspiration in one of his incites on “What is your Plan B“. This week we welcomed our CISO Group partner, Bobby Dominguez to the blogging fold. Bobby wrote a few articles that appeared both here on Security.exe and on Bobby’s own personal security blog, DrekkinVorn.
In the Friday Summary that Adrian Lane does on the Securosis blog every week, besides talking about each of the Securosis team members favorite Securosis posts, they also point out favorite outside posts and top news stories. Rich Mogul picked Bobby’s post about the Google/Italy fiasco as his favorite outside post this week. Then Bobby’s expose on the inherent conflict by being a consultant and auditor at the same time was chosen as a top news of the week story.
That is just hitting it out of the park in your first at bat as far as I am concerned. Great work Bobby! An interesting note on the consultant as auditor story is that Parker Yates, another one of my partners at The CISO Group, actually wrote a similar story on this a few weeks ago asking, “Are QSA’s going to suffer the same fate as Arthur Anderson?“. Parker and I go back a long ways and we remember what happens when the auditors also start consulting. It is only a matter of time before history repeats itself here I am afraid.
On a similar note and not to blow my own horn too much, my comment on the great RSA guide the Securosis team put out was chosen as the comment of the week . Had I known it was going to be the comment of the week, I would have taken the time to clean up the grammar and make sure I didn’t leave a word out here or there 
As comment of the week, the Securosis team makes a 25 dollar contribution to Hackers For Charity on my behalf. The CISO Group has made a matching contribution to Hackers For Charity in recognition as well. Thanks to the Securois team for showing us that at least someone besides our loved ones are reading!
When we first started putting The CISO Group together I told people that I was going out and trying to find the smartest people I knew to work with, but still make sure we had fun. It is refreshing and rewarding to see that the rest of the world is recognizing what a great bunch of folks we are putting together here. Congrats to all of my partners at The CISO Group!
