The "RISKY BUSINESS" Blog

As an opinionated person by nature, the biggest challenge of spending my days toiling as an Information Security Auditor is the obligation to be able to demonstrate a “basis for your opinion” (which isn’t nearly as fun as “shooting from the hip”). So that growing frustration, along with the ever intensifying pleas of our Sales & Marketing Director about the importance of blogging to our online marketing efforts (I think he is just hoping he can justify his Ad Words budget), has resulted in the words you may be (or likely are not) reading.

I’m half looking forward to being a blogger. Hopefully, it will restore some of my rapidly waning tech cred that peaked around the time himem.sys and QEMM were no longer necessary to get your 24 pin wide carriage dot-matrix running optimally. The other positive is that the vast majority of the writing I do these days is formal audit reports that are subject to multiple layers of QA — so “letting it rip” should be fun.

I’m half not looking forward to being a blogger — things are already busy — and with the economic downturn it seems like working harder to stay where you are is going to be a reality for the near future. With a nothing ventured - nothing gained attitude and the fall-back that we can shut it down if we fail to execute — here goes.

A couple of closing thoughts:

• We will do our best to post entries no less than once a week — if we can’t do that we are wasting our and your time.
• Opinions may be irreverent, based on known erroneous data, and be self-serving — if its a good enough standard for the NY Times its good enough for us.

As we do with everything — we hope that the blog will provide mutual benefit to us and the reader. Hopefully, we will offer a pearl or two that will be seen and make a difference for someone. In turn, hopefully Karma will refer some business to us.

Thanks,

John Verry