The Lightning And The Lightning Bug

Graphic novel typewriter with lightning leaping from one key beneath a comic caption box reading The Lightning And The Lightning Bug, by Martin Hinton

For Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a career communicator on the words the cyber industry uses, specifically the word cyber. Mark Twain had a line for this. “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter,” he wrote to George Bainton in 1888. “‘Tis the difference between the lightning-bug and … Read more

The Uncomfortable Truth About Cybersecurity: Why Awareness Month Is Not Enough

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A year later, does this still apply? Cyber Resilience Is The New Seamanship Here’s the uncomfortable truth. “Cybersecurity Awareness Month” is a start. It is not a strategy. The risks do not pause on November 1. Ransomware crews do not take holidays. Boards cannot either. Sailors once read the sky to prepare for storms. Today, … Read more

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