Integrated Security Operation Center – ISOC You Cannot Fight What You Cannot See For those of you asked about last month’s podcast, I offer you this post to help answer your questions. One of the largest concerns in the United States, regarding cyber security, is how to secure the electrical grid. By consolidating all...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite by Albert Bierstadt When I think of vistas of Yosemite Valley, I most often think of Ansel Adams’ iconic photographs, as it was Adams who first introduced...
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Can There Be: Love, Peace, Beauty, Wonder, Joy . . . ? “We’re alike. I, too, believe that everyone should have a chance at a breathtaking piece of folly once in his life. I was twenty when they said a woman couldn’t swim the Channel. You’re twelve; you think a horse of yours...
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Memory Gardening I love plants; my Mother turned me into a gardener, as a child, telling me, as I have already shared on these pages, that playing in the dirt was good for my nerves. I would be lying if I said that I do not buy plants, but if you are a novice...
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You can listen to my Podcast this month, presented by IBM Security Intelligence Staff: Boost Energy and Utilities Security By Reducing SOC Complexity https://securityintelligence.com/media/boost-energy-and-utilities-security-by-reducing-soc-complexity/</ Top Three Security Trends in the Energy Sector Scarcella has spent two decades with IBM handling concerns related to energy and utilities. In the podcast, she identifies three major...
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Falafel I have been cooking for a very long time; thus it is not often that I surprise myself with what I make. But I have to say, I called Kate into the kitchen, cut the first falafel in half, so we could each taste it, and when I popped it in...
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Words of Children It was an unseasonably cool but sunny Saturday morning in early May; still a few hours from midday. I’d just run to Ace Hardware for some knickknack or another for whatever projects were on my workbench in various stages of completion. The great thing about the Ace Hardware by my house...
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Zane Grey Road My Father loved his cowboy novels; I am sorry that I never read Larry McMurtry or Zane Grey, while my Father was alive, we would have had some interesting conversations. Kate and I read Riders of the Purple Sage, aloud to one another, as we drove cross country; and yes, we...
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I am Weary of Your Hate I am weary of your hate right or wrong no longer matters I do not care why you hate or if you have cause perhaps you are justified and no court in the nation would condemn you but nevertheless I am weary of your hate we...
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Ybor City Museum State Park This is where I was supposed to have been born; my parents were living here when my maternal grandfather passed away, and my Mother flew to Columbus, Ohio, for the funeral. While there, she went into labor and I was delivered at The Ohio State University, instead —...
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