I was at the ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) London chapter event yesterday evening. It was my first attendance and most likely my last too. Nothing wrong with their events and activities. Folks there seem friendly and chatting. There are tons of information on ISACA site.
What took me there was the topic ‘Locking Down the Cloud, and Change…as a constant in today’s world. The ISACA vision’. The speakers were lively but I still managed to dose off towards the 2nd half of the seminar. Must be the wine! So..I didn’t get to ‘hear’ what ‘Change…as a constant in today’s world’..
This morning my head is spinning and looks like another day of no literature review reading. Off to London again this evening to see ‘The Commitments’ (my daughters’ pick!) with my girls as it’s my eldest daughter’s birthday tomorrow, yup! a special mid-winter day.
For sure, same time next year I won’t be sitting here blogging about this same theme of the day ‘On timelessness’ and/or my whereabout. Is my prior statement a result of a ‘change as a constant’ thinking ?
I rather not view ‘change as a constant’ instead look for ‘timelessness’. Timelessness as in timeless movies, books, buildings and recipes etc.. Timelessness in that it stood the test of time in quality/value/tastefulness/usage or just plain untested/unbeaten/uncontested since it’s existence.
Do we have the same concept of timelessness for a piece of software or hardware or code or process?
Well..can we say COBIT (now version 5) is timeless?
If I’m invited to give a talk (was invited to talk at BCS IRMA for February 2014 but turned it down!) timelessness sounds interesting to explore.