Information Security,

With the proliferation of automated hacking toolkits and amusement that news channels create when some popular website gets hacked or defaced, every IT guy have heard of "security" at least as many times as it is sufficient to  make it sound boring.  Many researches held at universities across the globe shows good correlation between poor employee engagement with poor interest in efficiently fulfilling their jobs. Similarly there are some researches that emphasize on the phenomenon that effective security depends on employee engagement rather than hard compliance. With all of this taken into consideration it is not that difficult to say that talking about security more than required number of times can make situation worse. The problem that organizations are facing today can become daunting with more and more noise about  security. It is high time for CXOs to maintain a balance and keep providing filtered information about security at right time and amount. No o...

"Loneliness, Fear, Dreams, Goals, Motivation and Inspirations" , these were the array of thoughts that used to wake me up in the mornings when I was striving to be an Engineer. I still remember that how depersonalized I felt, the days were like dreams to me and I felt numb. I was left empty without any emotions and I was not even able to feel my soul. And one day my eyes rolled on some notice at any notice board near my classroom. It was to inform that we would be going to get up to 1 GB of Internet data every day in our hostels. Without wasting a single more minute, I rushed to my room and flipped the flap of my PC and Viola! I was downloading something that I was reading about in previous months. That something was called "Backtrack- Linux"[aka Kali Linux]. From that day till today I am with it and not planning to leave it, because it has made my boring journey to a series of beautiful voyages.