Happy Sunday, everyone! No, I hadn’t forgotten to put together this post. It had been a rather busy week at work, and Saturday was pretty busy as well. I’m very thankful that all of the busyness was due to things I enjoy, so I didn’t particularly mind. Honestly, the weekend seems more appropriate for my weekly recap anyway, rather than posting it on Fridays. The way I look at it, it affords me extra time to reflect on the week, and to take into account anything that may happen on the weekend as well. It’s like the perfect way to end out the week, and prep for the incoming one.
Even though work has been keeping me very busy—which I’m enjoying—it also has been opening my eyes to how much I still need to learn. Not just in the security realm, but also in the healthcare and research areas. If I don’t have a relatively good understanding of how these areas operate, how can I properly try to educate, secure, and protect our customers? I confess that I’ve fallen a bit behind, but I need to delve back into learning what I can: NIST guidelines, procedures, IRBs, clinical studies, NIH/CDC guidelines, and many, many more.
Oh! I’m also very happy to share that the sticker I had created had finally arrived over the weekend, and I could not be happier with them. Behold! 🤩
At the same time, I also need to redevelop my habit of utilizing ChatGPT to help quiz and prep me to take the CISSP exam. That is something I constantly struggle with—learning to develop (and KEEP) good habits. I’m not really referring to just this in particular. I’ve also been terrible with note-taking, and can’t find a good method that will stick with me. I’ll find a potential solution, stick with it for a little while, but quickly lose interest or find it too complex, and then it falls by the wayside. I’m thinking that because I’m largely driven by emotion, many of the solutions I’m coming across to help me develop habits tend to lean towards logic and reasoning. While I’m certainly capable of such things 😜, I tend to connect with things that I have an emotional connection with or attachment to. Well, enough rambling for now…
This Got Me Thinking
Every week, it feels like another breach makes the headlines. This past week, it was credit bureau TransUnion’s breach that got me thinking.
4.4 million customers’ personal information. Breached. Stolen. Names, birthdates, and social security numbers.
At this point, it’s less a question of if your data is out there, and more a matter of how many times.
The truth is, people’s privacy doesn’t vanish in one dramatic moment. It frays. One leak here, one stolen record there, one overlooked app at a time.
Like a loose thread on a favorite sweater, those little frays don’t seem like much at first. But left alone, they spread—slowly unraveling the fabric until what once felt sturdy doesn’t quite hold together anymore.
I used to picture privacy as a vault—solid, locked, unshakable. Now, it looks more like glass to me: it’s still present and useful, but it’s fragile enough to shatter with the lightest touch.
In spite of it, I keep coming back to the thought that even fragile things are worth protecting. Not because they’re shatterproof, but because they still matter.
Finally, here’s a look back at what I wore to work this week. I hope you enjoy it. I’m off to enjoy the remainder of the weekend, especially that Monday is a holiday here in the U.S. (Labor Day). Enjoy!
-Terry
August 26
August 27
August 28
August 29
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