Showing posts with label issa journal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label issa journal. Show all posts

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Magazine Cover!

If you want to read something in the "propeller-head" genre, I wrote an article which is the cover story of this month's ISSA Journal. FYI, ISSA stands for "Information Systems Security Association," a group dedicated to information security professionals, of which I am one.

The article concerns end user computing applications--which typically are spreadsheets--that are turned into quasi-programs by non-programmers, often with adverse effects. If you're using such a spreadsheet to track your diet, it's not a big problem. But if you're using it to calculate numbers which are reported to your company's general ledger, and then to Wall Street...