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Inside the Security Mind: Making the Tough Decisions

I really enjoyed the first six chapters, especially chapter 3 and 4 and I really feel those 122 pages are worth the price of the book and then some. After chapter 6, Inside the Security Mind morphs into yet another everything you already know about information security book.

There is treasure, rare treasure in the front of the book. Kevin Day spares us a review of risk management and TCP and instead lays out the information battlescape better than anyone I have seen in a long time. The only other person to shed light on this concept was Dorothy Denning in her classic, Information Warfare & Security. But where Dorothy while comprehensive, was a bit boring with list after list, Kevin Day takes Inside the Security Mind in an entirely different direction.

His words are like a painter with bold brush strokes; he outlines information security in a way that forces even the most hardened techie to stop and rethink the world we live in. When was the last time when you heard about the four virtues of information security? When was the last time you read about virtue for that matter? Something about the philosophical approach of the first six chapters of the book reminds me of The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, but where Power is amoral and more than a bit dark and frightening, Security Mind grabs the high ground and doesn't let go.

Every security manager and technical administrator can benefit from chapter 4, the eight rules of security. Yes we each knew that information at one time, but are we applying those rules all the time? Kevin outlines the concepts and he has me thinking about my data left architecture and some of the design choices we have made recently.

My advice is to read chapter 3 and 4 at least three times. Within 24 hours most of the knowledge you learned from an initial reading is lost, but if you read it again you start to build knowledge you can use for the long term. I would suggest that chapters 1, 2, 5, 6 are each worth reading twice. The rest of the book is certainly worth reading once, but if you have more than ten security titles on your bookshelf you will read most of the information in the back half of the book before.

If you are considering buying a book titled Inside the Security Mind, you are probably familiar with AF Col. John Boyd's Observation, Orientation, Decision Action (OODA) loops. The diligent reader of Inside the Security Mind has an opportunity to program the orientation segment of their minds. This opportunity does not come along every day! Carpe Diem, Buy em and Read em!

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