Thursday, September 4, 2008

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Security Leaders Group
Newsletter
September 4, 2008
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Welcome to the Security Leaders Group on LinkedIn. This is the third monthly newsletter for our group of security professionals, managers, consultants, and thought leaders. While the primary goal of a LinkedIn group is to facilitate networking we hope that this Security Leaders group will continue to have other benefits for its members.

Group News
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This newsletter is meant to help introduce members to each other by sharing information about ourselves, our activities, and our experience. If you would like to share any of your blog postings, writings, news or thoughts please forward them to richard@it-harvestl.com

As of today there are 1,140 members of the Security Leaders Group. I took a moment to do some data mining. This is the breakdown of membership by several countries:

Country Members
UK 98
France 47
Brazil 38
Israel 37
Canada 34
Belgium 18
Australia 16
Germany 6
Finland 5
Netherlands 4
Russian Fed 4
China 3
South Africa 2
Italy 1
Azerbaijan 1

Linkedin Introduces DISCUSSIONS

In case you have not noticed, Linkedin has made it possible for us to hold discussions within our group. Visit the discussion page now to chime in on:

What should the Security Leaders Group be doing?
Call for contributors from editor of CXO Magazines.
And new topics every day.

This link to the discussion area might work. If not just go to Your Groups and click on the Discussion tab.


Ground rules
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In accepting membership in this group some very simple criteria were applied. Examples of requests that are denied:

  • Individuals with no security expertise at all
  • Representatives of vendors who are marketing or sales focused. (Executives, security experts who have transitioned to those roles, and any technical people are welcome).
  • Recruiters.
As you can see this is a group open to security professionals, thought leaders, and managers in the security space.
Thank you for taking time to become a Security Leaders Group member and please feel free to reply to this email with suggestions for content for future editions of this newsletter.

Best regards,

Richard Stiennon

and
Marci McCarthy
CEO
Executive Alliance

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