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Latest Read: Security Chaos Engineering

Security Chaos Engineering: Sustaining Resilience in Software and Systems by Kelly Shortridge and Aaron Rinehart.

Security Chaos Engineering: Sustaining Resilience in Software and Systems by Kelly Shortridge and Aaron Rinehart

Kelly holds a BA in Economics from Vassar College. She previously serving as Vice President of Security Strategy at Capsule8 (acquired by Google Cloud) and management roles at SecurityScorecard. She co-founded IperLane, a security startup acquired by CrowdStrike. Today Kelly is a Senior Principal in the Office of the CTO at Fastly. She is a frequent speaker at major conferences like Black Hat, RSA, and O’Reilly Velocity.

Aaron holds a BA in Economics from the University of Missouri. He was the Co-founder and CTO of Verica (a chaos engineering startup) and a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in applying chaos engineering specifically to the security domain. A former Chief Security Architect at UnitedHealth Group (UHG), Aaron led the release of ChaoSlingr, an early open-source security chaos engineering tool. He is a frequent keynote speaker at the National Press Club, RSA, and DEF CON.

Both share that traditional security relies on the “fortress” mentality, building thicker walls to keep attackers out. However they state that modern, complex, distributed systems failure is not possible, it’s actually inevitable. So, don’t let the inevitable system failures stall organizational progress. By adopting Security Chaos Engineering, you certainly build the ‘immune system’ your software needs to withstand adverse events, ensuring your business goals and engineering velocity remain on track even under pressure.”

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Latest Read: Creepy Analytics

Creepy Analytics: Avoid Crossing the Line and Establish Ethical HR Analytics for Smarter Workforce Decisions by Salvatore V. Falletta.

Creepy Analytics: Avoid Crossing the Line and Establish Ethical HR Analytics for Smarter Workforce Decisions by Salvatore V. Falletta

Salvatore holds a EdD in Human Resource Development from North Carolina State University and a Master of Public Administration with a specialty in HR and Organization Development from Indiana State University. He previously served as Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Atmel Corporation and held leadership HR roles at Intel, SAP, and Sun Microsystems. Today Salvatore is a Professor of the Practice at Vanderbilt University.

Salvatore is revealing while AI can certainly augment an HR Recruiter’s efficiency, it simply cannot operate in a vacuum. Similar to many authors, a Human In The Loop (HITL) is absolutely mandatory to prevent a datafication of people from turning into surveillance.

Similarly, his golden rule is that AI should never make a final workforce decision alone. This is understood as ‘Augmentation, Not Replacement’ AI should be used to scan thousands of resumes, but human recruiters must provide the final judgment.

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Latest Read: The Upside of Disruption

The Upside of Disruption: The Path to Leading and Thriving in the Unknown by Terence Mauri.

The Upside of Disruption: The Path to Leading and Thriving in the Unknown by Terence Mauri

Terence is the founder of Hack Future Lab. He is a former Director at Saatchi & Saatchi and McKinsey, and columnist for Inc. Magazine’s Future Proof column. He is Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a visiting professor at both IE Business School in Spain and an Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence at London Business School.

Terence is introducing the “fail principle” and seeking to move organizations to relook at failure as a source of data and resilience. He sees failure as a source of innovation.

Organizational leaders who embrace this will not only survive disruption but leverage this for long?term value creation. Terence is sharing his key message of “unlearning” by stating “good leaders learn, but great leaders unlearn.”

So Unlearning must be a deliberate act by leadership. This including challenging assumptions, removing obsolete processes and introducing new behavioral models. The major obstacle to agility is the organization’s culture.

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Latest Read: Digital Wellbeing

Digital Wellbeing: Empowering Connection with Wonder and Imagination in the Age of AI by Caitlin Krause.

Digital Wellbeing: Empowering Connection with Wonder and Imagination in the Age of AI by Caitlin Krause

Caitlin holds a MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. She is the Founder of Mindwise and teaches courses on digital wellbeing, technology, and storytelling at Stanford University. She has also advised Google, LinkedIn, the US State Department on leadership and experience design.

Instead of viewing technology as the typical “necessary evil” to avoid where possible, Caitlin conveys a position that digital tools can be amazing resources for human growth when implemented with positive intention.

Digital Wellbeing presents readers with the innovative notion that technology needs alignment and enrichment. Caitlin shares the idea of a “Digital Wonder” suggesting that in the age of Artificial Intelligence that we all have an opportunity to use technology to expand both inner and outer connections. There is a unique view that we leverage the new advancements in technology to bolsert our humanity.

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Latest Read: Red Team

Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy by Micah Zenko

Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy by Micah Zenko

Micah holds a BA in International Relations from University of Wisconsin-Madison, MA in Security Policy Studies at George Washington University, and PhD in Political Science from Brandeis University. He is the Director of Research and Learning at the McChrystal Group. He is also a Whitehead Senior Fellow at Chatham House and previously served as a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Micah previously served at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the US State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, the Brookings Institution, and the Congressional Research Service. He is published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and Business Insider.

Red Team is in fact, a very engaging read and should be almost mandatory for organizational leaders and their IT division. The key reason in fact is that Micah is providing the practice of inhabiting the perspective of potential competitors to gain a strategic advantage.

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