Industrial-Strength Design Thinking
to better protect people from danger and 
improve your work-life balance.

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The cyber community has never known more than we know today, nor has it had more funding and sophisticated technology. 

Yet, incidents and breaches continue. The harsh cyber forensics realities are that most incidents and breaches are self-inflicted. And state-sponsored attacks are more intense by rogue states and their proxies. 

In business terms, you lose customers, competitive edge, time to market, and most assuredly, suffer heavy costs and burnout.  

Mighty companies fall due to structural flaws and group think, as in Jim Collins’ “How the Mighty Fall.” They fail to quickly adapt proven methods and stay ahead of competitors. 

Cyber teams are also failing to adapt quickly and stay ahead of enemies. Bookkeeping-style control structures were never relevant, structurally sound or reliable for cyber -- given the nature of the system in which cyber risk lives.

People, process and technology can be misapplied. Diversity does not overcome group think -- need thought diversity and innovation. 

How can this be?

Cyber pros are set up for failure– caught between structural flaws, flawed controls and policies, and group think – are simply not taking advantage of terrific and proven methods.

Industrial-Strength Design Thinking drives strong business outcomes and is easily applicable to managing cyber risk -- making your cyber team more efficient.

Cyber success, like business, requires tools designed for the dynamic and chaotic cyber system. 

• Tools designed for more linear, stable systems, such as bookkeeping-style controls (really checks), naturally break when applied to the complex, dynamic cyberworld.
• In business, poorly designed product management and controls leads to miserable sales.
• In cyber, rigid frameworks and illusion of adequate controls and policies lead to breaches and low resilience.

Cyber pros are set up for failure, burnout and stress -- no matter how hard they work to fix implementation -- because the root cause lines in designed in, structural flaws.

Importantly, it is not the fault of cyber pros. 

Yet it was another single piece of information that really hit us hard. 

• After questioning audiences at conferences for over a decade, we found that only about 1% of attendees take-away an idea that they can implement in the next year.
• Of those, some stated it was only a minor improvement.
• Cyber security is complex and convoluted.
• With that stark reality, it is no surprise that incidents and breaches continue, costs remain high and cyber teams are burnt out.

In short, cyber pros are set up to fail by the methods and math they are forced to use. 

• This makes for "hamster wheel" work-life and poor work-life balance.
• No method innovation (except tactical tech), like in the rest of the business.
• No challenging outdated assumptions.

We believe that by going through this site, thinking through the implications – taking time to learn more through the online courses – you can gain what you need to make your cyber world more secure and your life easier -- cutting stress and burnout.

The solution is Industrial-Strength Design Thinking.