blanky

We were talking about Visio diagrams the other day, spurred on by bobo’s “I hate Visio” statement, made while trying to use the damn program. Some files were exchanged, and I came across this one in my doc directory while saving and looking at the file I had been sent. I had forgotten all about it, but it was a slide I used to use to discuss with folks on understanding the value of their information, and defining policy vs. throwing technology at information security (which is what most places do, sadly).

I won’t get into too much, because it can be boring. There was one C-level I will never forget, though. He looked at the diagram and asked what company made the “Blanky” firewall.

I said “Well, Linus, of course.”

He paused for a second, and then his eyes lit up and he said “Oh! It’s an open-source thing!”

*sigh*

I did giggle a little, but he left it at that, and when I explained it a couple slides later, the lights came on again for the right reason (thankfully).