This past week, a lesson about enterprise information security found its way to me via a somewhat unorthodox channel: specifically, an episode of Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. In this particular episode, the upshot was that Ramsay wasn’t able to help. Why not? The owners weren’t able to take criticism. There’s a lesson in this for those of us in the network and security space: To be successful, we need to be able to hear feedback. When we don’t, we’re leaving a valuable resource on the table.
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Criticism: A Security Chief's Most Valuable Resource
Posted by: Ed Moyle May 17, 2013 05:00 AMThis past week, a lesson about enterprise information security found its way to me via a somewhat unorthodox channel: specifically, an episode of Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. In this particular episode, the upshot was that Ramsay wasn’t able to help. Why not? The owners weren’t able to take criticism. There’s a lesson in this for those of us in the network and security space: To be successful, we need to be able to hear feedback. When we don’t, we’re leaving a valuable resource on the table.