Anyone who is in technology has been there, there is a battle on your project on doing it "the right way" and shipping the product on time and budget while getting the right balance of features and "ilities." These forces collide often enough that there are whole schools of various project management disciplines and their disciples evangelize Agile, Rational and a host of other methodologies.
Steve Jobs had three remarkable careers, any one of which would be enough to propel him into the history books, but what a quote of his that I first heard in the 90s (when he wasn't a guru on the level of now) has always stuck with me - "Real Artists Ship."
For me Jobs' genius is not in any one product, its the fact that he shipped them. Navigating the feature/time/cost trail and finding the right balance. Like Bob Blakley said in his great piece on Steve Jobs - He built the future. Of course, many people will say he built the Future, but I would say he built the future.
Steve Jobs RIP
Steve Jobs was not a security geek by a long shot, but there are serious lessons in his ability to ship that infosec can learn from. Its not about having a 150 pages policy, its not about compliance or passing an audit, its not about whining if the developers or management only did this or that - its about building and shipping better security to your users. That should be our central organizing principle.
I would actually say that that attitude does a disservice on another level. Ship the product with the features it needs, security be-damned.
Posted by: LonerVamp | October 07, 2011 at 01:36 PM