There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
—Denis Waitley
In January 2002, I was hired to run a new Intel internal program called Security and Business Continuity. The program had been created following the major security events of the previous year (9/11 and the Code Red/Nimda viruses) and it focused primarily on the availability risks at that time. I had no background in technical security, but I had been at Intel for nearly 10 years in a variety of business-related positions, mostly in finance. ...