
Get educated on information security and the risks your organization faces.

Here are a few other suggestions to help swallow that cybersecurity red pill that you can do to walk through that door:

TAKE THE RED PILL HOW TO
who knows every human body part in Latin and maybe a few other languages a CPA who really understands the complicated transactions involved in mortgage backed securities or an Electrical Engineer that knows how to take the Laplacian of the Gaussian before complex convolution with the Fast Fourier Transform, the language of cybersecurity is a unique language unto its own. It’s filled with terms like PKI, XML, IDS, website cross scripting, Javascript, SQL injection, AES, Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks, hash functions, and APT. Trying to understand how a hacker thinks can twist your brain around – while you normally think about how to make something work or why something is not working, hackers think how to get something to work in ways that it is not supposed to. Despite your every instinct to take the blue pill, courts and regulatory agencies have made it clear – officers and directors have fiduciary obligation to monitor and minimize their organization’s information security risks. They have to take the red pill and see the real world of cybersecurity.Ī spoon full of sugar may help make it go down easier but of course, the truth is that there is no spoon. Cybersecurity can be confusing stuff – whether you are an M.D. It is no surprise that when it comes to information security most directors and officers want to take the blue pill.
TAKE THE RED PILL MOVIE
The answer is out there and it is looking for you. It will find you if you want it to. In the 1999 movie The Matrix, Morpheus gives Neo a simple choice: take the blue pill, and Neo can go on believing whatever he wants to believe. Take the red pill, and Neo stays in Wonderland and gets to see just how deep the rabbit-hole goes. What Morpheus is colorfully offering is the opportunity for Neo to free his mind from the computer-generated dream world created by the Matrix, and to use his eyes for the first time to see reality.
