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"Governance by Graffiti"
Simplified Security Resources Driven by a Concerned Community

The Streetwise Security Zone is a gathering place where you come to change the status quo for how information security is done  in your organization, and in your industry.

Whether you're an executive, an IT manager, a security professional, or an individual just trying to do your job, here's the Streetwise Security Awareness process we use to spread security awareness:

1. Be prepared to defend and recover from incidents;
2. Know your trusted connections and sources;
3. Know your personal context for information you rely on;
4. Control how you share information; and
5. Collaborate to help others and improve efficiency

Why do we want a change? Because the field of information security is too big for any one person, or even a team of people, to master. If you are tired of being led down rat-holes by people who claim to know security, only to find out that what they are proposing is not workable in your business environment, you understand why we need a change.

We need to start looking at security from the business objectives first, and management must become involved at some point - preferably at the beginning.

For security, as for many other aspects of business, we depend on empowering our teams (as defined by Michael Santarcangelo II) to:

   1. Do the right things
   2. At the right times
   3. For the right reasons
   4. When nobody is looking

But even if your management isn't on side, that doesn't mean you can't make a difference. You'll be surprised at what you can learn, and what you can contribute.

If you don't think you'll be able to contribute, that's OK. Everyone is welcome, but even if you don't join we encourage you to invite at least one other person who might be a good contributor. Whether they are business owners, mid-level managers or concerned staff who just want to get their job done, we want to hear their stories about information security in their organization.

We depend on the contributions of members. We don't need a huge community to be successful, but we do need quality contributions and engaged members to have a chance of changing the status quo.