Category: Lifehacking

Corporate Meetings Should Involve Everyone To Actually Find The Best Solution To A Problem

Don't waste yours and other's people time, by inviting them on meeting where you don't pay attention to their solutions anyways. Whether it's personal or professional life, you should always start a meeting or discussion with expected outcome in mind. Start talking to someone about problems, and state early on that you want to find … Continue reading Corporate Meetings Should Involve Everyone To Actually Find The Best Solution To A Problem →

Effectiveness, High Productivity and Fulfillment in InfoSec — The Game That Never Ends

Make everyone involved You need everyone’s perspective. To build robust security program which actually solves problems of your organisation, you need questions and insights of other employees. Sometimes, we’re not even aware that employees use a specific tool, thus we have no way of protecting them. You need to talk to people, you need to encourage … Continue reading Effectiveness, High Productivity and Fulfillment in InfoSec — The Game That Never Ends →

Leave Your Ego At The Door And Study Empathetic Leadership

The long term efficiency requires you to do things the right way As a security professionals, the big chunk of our daily work is finding mistakes in work of others and pointing them out. It’s what we are paid for and what we are supposed to do, however the whole trouble comes from HOW we transfer the … Continue reading Leave Your Ego At The Door And Study Empathetic Leadership →

Make your security training relevant and brief

Make sure that security training is periodic so people don't forget to use that knowledge in day to day operations. Try to keep audience entertained by your show so they don't perceive it as just one more mandatory boring corporate training aka necessary evil. Put in the work to ensure people are aware of your … Continue reading Make your security training relevant and brief →

Quitter mindset is killing your potential

It's not only that we ourselves set artificial boundaries because of low self-esteem. Most people don't realize their potential because they're not trying hard enough to work on their mental side. You've got one life, don't waste it just because you haven't trusted in your strengths and neglected the mental aspects of your life. Each … Continue reading Quitter mindset is killing your potential →

Manifesto For IT and Security Professionals. A Plea To DO MORE And CONTRIBUTE!

Sometimes you’ve got to sit down and write something from the bottom of you heart. Otherwise you lose the rare opportunity to inspire shy people who hesitate to do the things they secretly wish they had permission to do without realizing they’re the only ones authorized to give such permission. Speaking straight from the gut … Continue reading Manifesto For IT and Security Professionals. A Plea To DO MORE And CONTRIBUTE! →

Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants & Learning To Love The Process

Most people die without even realizing how much knowledge they kept in secret because they used to think it was irrelevant to share with the world. Most people don't utilize maximum of their potential because they aren't self confident and those who do believe in their strength sometimes end up too early because of being … Continue reading Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants & Learning To Love The Process →

Reading is an art and this is how I’ve learnt it

Everyone thinks they know how to read books. And I was nohow different, for years wasting the potential of tens of books I’ve read only because I didn’t know how to extract the value from them. No one ever showed me how to do it, until I’ve spent myself hundreds of hours reading hundreds of … Continue reading Reading is an art and this is how I’ve learnt it →