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It’s time for new thinking about balance, for yourself and your organization. Balance isn’t about the hours in the day or a just-so parceling out of time. It’s about choice. It is about being clear about what matters, putting your energy where it counts and helping others to do the same.

via Focus Is The New Key To Work-Life Balance – Forbes.com.

Great insightful article with several nuggets that  I found to be timely refreshers; via Leadership Insights from Executive Velocity: Leadership: Trick or Treat?.

…Given the compelling case for securing the enterprise, why do CEOs fail to invest more in security solutions? Does this simply represent a failure of IT and security staff to make a compelling business case? Or are the CEOs in fact being short-sighted?

…Risk management is the only rational way to frame the debate…The management decision is one of making rational trade-offs between the probability of an event, and the cost of reducing that possibility – but not eliminating it…
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Security spending for compliance, then, is a given. And while compliance spending may not comprehensively protect the enterprise against a breach, it does provide one important bit of protection: liability. From the CEOs perspective, while the cost per record of responding to a breach may be high, its nowhere near the potential cost of lawsuits resulting from said breach. And achieving compliance appears to provide a liability shield.

via Is Compliance the New Security Standard?.

A great essay by Ariel Silverstone.  It exhorts us security pros to deal with the new reality in a more effective way.  Read it here.

By friend Beth said it so well… Check out her post at the link below.

As we gather around our grills and barbecues with friends and families, I challenge each of us to take time to think about the true meaning of Memorial Day.

via Leadership Insights from Executive Velocity: Remembering Memorial Day 2009.

Downturn or no downturn, it’s nice to upgrade your tech gadgets now and again, especially when they are so old that your colleagues are looking at you sideways. But once you’ve bought — or been given — that great new digital camera, or smartphone, or laptop, what do you do with the old one?

You know you shouldn’t just throw it in the garbage — the environmental hazards of simply discarding electronics have been well documented. But many of us haven’t the vaguest idea how to dispose of the stuff safely.

via Smartphones to Laptops: Recycling Your Tech Gear is Easy.

Can You Delete Your Digital Past?

An unsavory connection from your past. An annoying link to your name that’s dragging down your career. A spicy quote you tossed off to a reporter that you wish you could take back. If you want to erase your tracks online, you’re not alone. Here’s what we did in an attempt to expunge a few bad mentions off the Net forever.

November 17, 2008 — Computerworld