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The technologist’s classic blunder

CIO Business Intelligence

Engineering types like software developers are inspired by a sense of the possibilities inherent in building things. This blunder may be the single greatest source of failure and disappointment in the work of software engineers and other technical types. Interestingly, this problem is not a technical one, but rather a mindset.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: What Star Wars Can Teach Us About Threat Modeling

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that uses both Star Wars and STRIDE to help engineers under vulnerabilities and threats in software development. MUSIC] VAMOSI: In the summer of 1977, a low budget film opened with very modest expectations. A few years later it would become the highest grossing films of all time. SHOSTACK: So I'm Adam Shostack.