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What is Cyber hygiene? Does it exist now? certification or cyber-Badges are now commonplace for most cyber folk. Some are experts so badges are not so important, others use badges to climb the social ladder. Whilst climbing the rungs has always been colourful through out history, its tone within Cyber hygiene can be a little more sever.

An attack needs precautions, internally and historically the power to vito is sufficient enough. The world of commercial badges and its advocates tend to self nurture and often when questioned directly - these badge collectors tend to be miffed to a solution and often delegate down in an 'open door' fashion to avoid embarrassment that their badge can not deliver on and further can be cyber hygiened intentionally into age and tenure in a company.

This cyber abuse of badges does not promote the company goals and often leads to conflict - in the usual case, the badge collector would be left confused without the tittles and as such guards the profession - only in their mind though. Its generally not the case, most people excel without the badge on basic academics as they do not oppose the power to vito - which serves well for the entire company - other than the badge collector.

The trend of SoC Managers turning into Heads is acceptable, it mimics a normal progressive path - the badge based progression is weak, and in cyber security, the weakest link is typically the badge holder - who without the badge has nothing to offer other than the ability to turn to search engines for trending and social sentiments of data.

Most HR folk are unable to understand why their staff turn over is high in cyber teams - they are missing the basic concepts of HR - that human value potential is similar to cyber hygiene - and without regulation, HR teams might continue to be puzzled why the high salary roles are churning over. The badge holders might negatively influence the company to give the perception that a badged-based team provides more value and when an attack or compromise occurs, its typically the non-badged individual who provides the solution. The Royal Academy of Engineering this week published a study with the lack of collaboration between academics and college labs - this is progressive in the right way, for example, the commercial foregin badge is based off alien concepts like Porters Diamond Model  (which is also recently being scrutinised as non progressive and dates - though well taught ), which in the context outside its home origin, if applied through these badge holders, does not promote progression, and comming back to the badge holder who provides no original thought, would not really promote the new study. The study might promote academic science to be turned into a commercial venture through the ease of taxation as a go-to market strategy is completley normal and carried out by many banks for start up companies - however, it exploits the technology potential only - where as the badges expolit human potential - in the name of the badge only - more as introduction of badge based (negative) cognitive dissonance. The charter security model in my previous blog would be a potential solution to this i.e. removes the badge holders ability to introduce forced-compliance-behaviour ( as a profit and loss activity ) for their own pockets, which currently as history has shown does not serve the stake holders interests with value.

This leads to my other historic blog , which after this weeks published study, should better justify why those with non-UK certificates, foreign badge holders - that promotes Porters diamond, should be taxed much higher - for example, Google Tax or cissp-tax should just be a start to ensure certain employees are regulated.


Whilst this topic gains background momentum and typically allowed to fester, its likely Cyber Hygiene abuse will flourish, for example, a selected few might intentionally promote an agile workforce when it is not even required thus promoting negativities within the customer account and indeed with the customer – all to intentionally 'dirty' the cyber-hygiene factor, even promoting that the cyber industry flourishes on secretes – or as mentioned before controlled conspiracies for profit - on a simple level, its their abuse of the badge as the organisation would place trust in their judgement - though without knowing their own virtues are advocated first on company time.


Whilst the fear of cyber attacks can help promote supply and demand of a cyber product, it also fuels a badge approach that is weak and often it falls back down to others to clean up the mess. HR would not be able to solve this alone, but at least they might understand where the waste is being introduced and by whom. Innovative HR tools are now begining to come into the market place however with a statistical approach only, the Cyber Hygiene abuse should be on any HR agenda, considering the many different cyber investiments taking place for example, social media abuse policies are just a sratch on the surface.