https://securedelivery.io/tags/security-process/Recent content in Security, Process on Secure DeliveryHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usMon, 12 Apr 2021 08:14:42 +0100https://securedelivery.io/articles/chestertons-fence-and-monkeys/Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:14:42 +0100https://securedelivery.io/articles/chestertons-fence-and-monkeys/Chesterton’s Fence, and Monkeys G. K. Chesterton—writer; modernist philosopher; friend to George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells and Bertrand Russell but, most importantly, author of a piece I can torture into an article on security. Chesterton’s fence In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road.https://securedelivery.io/articles/the-chaos-butterfly-of-security-standards/Tue, 14 Jul 2020 09:32:42 +0100https://securedelivery.io/articles/the-chaos-butterfly-of-security-standards/The mathematician and meteorologist, Edward Lorenz, made the Butterfly Effect famous with his talk in 1972, “Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?” and it’s stuck in the popular conscious ever since. The notion that small events in a chaotic system can build to large changes over time and space. In large companies I frequently see a hope that a similar mechanism will occur when a security standard is published to the company SharePoint.