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The Flow

Continues daily.

Now I am writing daily on the medium.com platform, I have found my flow, thanks for everyone for supporting me in this journey, you know who you all are! I am able to make time in my day to write more quality content than before. Some folk are starting to follow my content which is a boost to my confidence and propels me to write more.

Writing about my area of passion – Application Security – makes it easier too. There are other writers how share the same passion and are pushing out quality content, which resonates with me.

So I will continue the energy by investing the same amount of time in the week ahead to push out a daily article. Things I have learned this week:

Proof read to correct mistakes.
Re-read, re-word, re-publish if required.
Tell a story, if a personal story even better.
Follow other writers with a similar passion.

There is no doubt in my mind that through writing and telling stories, it not only is soothing for the soul, but it also is a way to express how you feel.

Until next week.

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.” – Paulo Coelho.

Shift

…. In gears

This week I was challenged to move away from bi-daily sound bites to a more informative style of Application Security writing. This advice has been taken on board and I have enjoyed my writing even more. I now create and produce a daily Application Security post on medium.com which feeds into my social media accounts –> twitter and linkedin. I feel more of a writer now and can expand on and share my experiences rather than consolidate and compact into a small sound bite sentence.

What a relief! Thank you community for directing me, I really appreciate it. This way I can be more fluent and engage on topics that are more relevant in a day-to-day way rather than squeezing and pushing out content that lack context and leave the reader without sound advice.

Let’s keep this style of writing going, growing my reader base and bringing value to an area of readership that I am passionate about each day.

“When we shift our perception, our experience changes” — L. Wagner

A week

of culture.

Posting all week about culture has been inspiring and insightful. Reading about culture, specifically application security culture, there is no doubt that the way a team plays together, stays together also secures together. There is a direct synchronous correlation between how well a team works together and the results they receive.

For those teams where the culture is unified with a common direction, their application security efforts prove time and again that deployments to production have been rigorously tested end-to-end throughout the software supply chain. I also realised that culture is predominantly about people, small teams of people, working well together, that change the direction of a corporation, and significantly reduce risk.

So in reflection, they way the application security team, plans, builds, delivers and protects the corporation assets has a continuous effect on the bottom line. They also reverberate throughout the corporation, where historically, security teams are the last defence, the tides have now turned where inclusivity ensures security is part of the process from the get go.

The week ahead will cover container security, and I am looking forward to reading, writing and sharing on this “misunderstood” and critical part of application security.

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“I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.” Jeff Bezos

Determined

To continue my writing ….

As I look back on a month of bi-daily Application Security posts to linked in, I have realised a few things. Notably that it is achievable! Also, my reading has increased which compliments my writing. Condensing my learning into single succinct paragraphs has been the ongoing challenge I set myself. Also on some days, the precious things in life do take precedence over my writing and thats ok. Knowing that I have the next day to writing something meaningful and add value to the Application Security Community gets me enthusiastic to read, digest, condense and contribute.

So after 30 days, I’m upping my own ante. I will continue my twice daily posts to LinkedIn, however I will now post daily to twitter in a true micro blog fashion with only the hashtag #appsec. I will also post to my blog once a week as I am now. Let’s check in at day 60 and set some more writing goals.

I have also learned that there is a wealth of Application Security information out there, that is on point and relevant to the community, and consumers of the content.

As I am writing this, I just had an epiphany. I shall write weekly focused on an Application Security subject on all platforms. The week ahead shall be geared around Application Security Culture.

“If we are to preserve our culture, we must continue to create it.” – Johan Huizinga

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Found

My voice…

And it is to commence my journey of writing about my profession on my terms. From my perspective and experience in the field of application security. Here is the place I can write freely about my observations, first hand. There is no secret formula to expressing my point of view but I do know one thing, we are all born and called to express ourselves freely, constantly to our tribe. To those who understand who we are, what we profess and resonate in our field of expertise. So herein the journey begins. Where it will lead only few know, but how exciting this journey will be. To those who have inspired me thank you. To those who have been thorns in my side thank you. To the glass balls that are tenderly supported and support me thank you. To those who will be inspired by my journey, read on.

A story starts with a single stroke of the pen, the touch of a keyboard and the conversation of Artificial Intelligence.

And may the story inspire others to pen, touch or converse their own journeys.

Tribe I am here, who is with me?

“It takes a tribe to raise a human.” – Yuval Noah Harar

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