O'reilly Security Podcast - O'reilly Media Podcast

The O’Reilly Security Podcast: Language as a uniter (or divider), the illusion of control, and how security is made of people.In this episode, I talk with Jack Whitsitt, senior strategist at EnergySec. We discuss the ways in which language can either divide or unite people and organizations, the illusion of control when it comes to security, and how any model or framework for security must include people in order to have any chance of success. Here are some highlights: Language can unite (or divide) I think language is a huge, huge part of our cyber security problems faced right now. You can get people in a room, and they're using the same words, but meaning different things. They're not actually effectively making their world a better place. “Cyber” versus “information” security is something I talk about a lot. When you look at it, it's unhelpful to say, "Well that word doesn't mean what you think it does," and to kind of ostracize that set of thinking from your world view. If we