Security services
Open for new information
Closed for leakage of energy
Benefits
- Easy and quick implementation: By considering your entire security landscape in an Open Space meeting, a holistic strategy appears that can easily be implemented.
- Reduce the stress associated with planning and implementing new security systems and make it a pleasurable and even a fun experience for all involved.
- Save the time normally required to research and present specific options tailored to your needs.
- With the few guards you will still need, you can afford a higher quality guard. This means less of your time and energy is spent on planning and coordinating your security efforts.
By running our own servers and businesses, and dealing with security threats and the occasional breach in an open and ongoing way, we keep ourselves informed of the latest technology and methods, and can lighten the load in your security project management schedule.
A long time ago ...
I was asked to play intelligent hacking nerd for an insurance company. They were willing to spend 50.000 guilders, a lot of money at the time, to set up (inter)net security. And with all the private data kept on their intranet and in the building, that was not such a bad idea. Of course, disonnecting the network from the internet would have been the cheapest solution. Nevertheless, for reasons unknown to me, they desired a secure intranet and internet connection.
The meeting started, and I informed the very serious meeting men I would walk around a bit. The building had several floors, with a staircase in the middle. There was no guard or desk downstairs at the entrance of the building, or on the floors. The people working inside were quite happy to answer questions about things I noticed, such as: "Why are some casefile covers red, and some yellow, green, white, blue?
Well, the red is filled with cases of people that are asking for money - because they are ill, had their house burgled etcetera. Cheerfully the person showed it to me, and opened the red casefile to illustrate what he was explaining to me. I smiled and thanked him.
I went back to the management meeting to go for lunch together. We walked over the floor towards the unguarded stair case doors, because the company restaurant was on a higher floor. I was asked if my walk-about had been interesting and what I had discovered. In front of us a man walked through the door, and downstairs to a lower floor (or perhaps even out of the building). As his head disappeared and we moved towards the staircase for going up, I asked, "Does anyone know where this person is going? He might even leave the building with that private data under his arm. Who would know? There is nobody downstairs ..."
Lessons learned: Security needs to be placed in a landscape, people are very willing to work with you for setting up a sound security strategy, and the people on the workfloor have lots of knowledge and wisdom that we can tap into!
We use Open Space facilitation to involve key people in your company to raise awareness on security issues, and to propagate such awareness. Not only that, these key players help your company
- Commit to ever-increasing excellence in keeping that which needs to be protected and private secure, because hackers keep pushing the edge.
- (Security) business develops what it demands, and you can build a matching security project management schedule that can be maintained by your company because it can be sustained by the people that made it.
- Maintain your companies' integrity: sustain inner authority for security issues and for external responsibility.
Feel the freedom of focus on core business propagate through your company!It is like a breath of fresh air!
