October 7, 2009 – Bootcamp #2

Mike’s
Pep Talk:

"It would be
better if you begin to teach others only after you yourself have
learned something."
— Albert Einstein

I am a fortunate guy. The journey I’m on continues to amaze
and astound me. I viewed The Pragmatic CSO as my opportunity to give a
little back based on all of the great people that have taught me the
ropes through the years. Though I’ve been pretty much silent over the past year on P-CSO activities, I still like to give back and when the opportunity presents itself to
give folks that haven’t been exposed another chance to get
Pragmatic.

Once again, I’m happy to partner with the folks at the Business of Security site to run a
series of webcasts and virtual peer group sessions to run
folks through the boot camp I put together a few years ago. In this kind of
economic environment, it’s all the more critical that every security
professional be focused on adding value and selling the benefits of
security. Being Pragmatic is certainly a time-proven method to doing
that.

The first session doesn’t cost anything and will be held this Tuesday via webcast. I’ll run through the P-CSO process and then dive into the first section of the P-CSO – "Plan to be
Pragmatic." I’ll also go into the beginning of Section 2 – "Building Your Pragmatic Security Environment."

Even better,
through the generosity of the Business of Security folks (and my
employer, eIQ) I’m able to offer attendees
to the session a 50%
discount on the book and/or PDF. But to get the discount,
you’ll need a special discount code that will be provided during the session. 

SO, if you’ve
been waiting to for the price of the P-CSO to come down – this is your
chance.

There will
also be a special discount for folks that want to participate in the
follow-on sessions when I present the rest of the boot camp. More details will be available during the session.

Here is the
link to the registration page. I hope to see
you on Tuesday.

Photo
credit: Army.mil