Feb. 18, George Finney, Chief Security Officer at SMU Dallas, for a piece helping fellow cybersecurity leaders navigate the huge number of products and services available to them to thwart cyberattacks. Published in Enterprise Security Magazine: http://bit.ly/2P9jSkF
When I was 12, my stepmom introduced me to the acronym for the phrase, Keep It Simple, Stupid, or KISS. She wasn’t a wicked stepmother, but my initial reaction was to be offended. Who are you calling stupid? Little did I know that the phrase was actually coined by the lead engineer, Kelly Johnson, at the Lockheed Martin Skunkworks lab.
Johnson’s idea was that all their designs should be simple enough for a soldier in combat to fix with only limited training and basic tools. It was this principle that helped in the development of the SR-71 Blackbird project, one of the greatest feats of engineering of all time. . .
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