Technical Storyteller
We recently visited the Tower Hill nature reserve in Victoria, Australia. It’s our second time, and continues to be an amazing place to see wildlife. This koala was in a tree right near the parking lot just snoozing away, ignoring the crazy American with his camera.
It got me thinking though, there’s a moral here for cybersecurity too – no matter how safe and comfortable we think we are, there’s always something sharp ready to poke us in our complacent rears.
This week’s Friday photo is from Russell Gulch in Idaho Springs, Colorado. There’s tons of old mining towns and camps throughout the Rockies, and it’s always fun to discover a new one, especially near your own backyard. I enhanced the clouds with an HDR exposure to give it a surreal feel – trying to capture all the storms that the old cabin has weathered over the years.
In honor of the big breach this week, I went through the archives looking for an image of a castle in ruins. Couldn’t have found a more apropos image than this one of Castle Urquhart and Loch Ness. There be monsters here!
Much of our security infrastructure is based on building a controlled perimeter, much as the engineers of Urquhart did on the shoreline. That’s important for sure, but what happens once your walls are breached, the bad guys are inside? Are you only relying moats and castles to protect your critical assets, or do you have watchtowers, patrols, and a garrison stationed inside, ready to respond?
Something to think about when the monsters come.