- Reading – Reading a chapter from Psalms and Proverbs
- Reflecting – Considering my wins, loses, lessons, and gratitude from the previous day
- Breakfast – The standard cup of coffee, orange, oatmeal, and boiled egg
- Grooming – Brushing my teeth, Showering, and combing my beard
- Dressing – Today, I tried the trend of the fleece vest by sporting the steel blue zippered vest I bought over the weekend. I paired the vest with a blue dress shirt, khaki pants, and brown slip-ons.
The drive to the office was uneventful and clocked in at
about 35 minutes. I decided to continue
the trend of parkin on the lowest parting level under the building.
Once at the office, I obtained a medium black eye, a coffee
with shots of espresso, from the Platform, a Starbucks inspired coffee shop.
Enjoying my coffee, I caught up briefly with my manager,
Paul while walking by his office to mine.
At 8 AM, I hastily joined my first meeting view Zoom, an
online conferencing system. I was
meeting with my Palo Alto account team to discuss:
- Our Resident Engineer
- Firewall quotes for the Gulf of Mexico
- Renewal for a threat intelligence feed - Autofocus.
At the conclusion of that meeting, I meet with Manav. Manav
recently joined the Enterprise Architecture team from the Data Office. His knowledge and experience in various
technologies makes him incredibly valuable to the company as well as to ensure
we are secure. This was our first formal
meeting and I spent several minutes setting the stage of why I scheduled time.
various cyber-threats my team is monitoring and asking him about his new role
and responsibilities. The meeting was productive,
and I left him with a copy of a book named, “Sandworm”, by Andy Greenberg that
details the rise of Russian cyber skills.
From that meeting, I took some time to review newly arrived
emails and to review my task list for the day.
Unfortunately, the day was meeting heavy, a common phenomenon, so I did
not make any headway on completing my tasks.
After setting an unrealistic expectation for my
non-scheduled time, I attended a whiteboarding session with PWC. The purpose of the meeting was to define the
2020 Cybersecurity program. Though
planning had occurred internally at the end of 2019, our new team member Salman
has some additional ideas around governance, security reviews, and risk
management that he wanted tackled this year.
This was our second discussion, the first with another vendor, to define
this work and the additional project resources that would be required.
After escorting the PWC team back to the lobby, Salman and I
decided to grab lunch at the Hess dining Hall. The dining hall provides
numerous all you can eat food options for $7.00. During lunch, Salman and I caught up on both
work and last weekend’s activities.
Immediately following lunch, I jumped on a Skype meeting
about the proposed Bakken Operational Technology Field Network Assessment to be
performed by Cisco. I was engaged in the
conversation when Hess asset IT found out about the planned assessment. IT was concerned about the assessment
contradicting their network strategy that had been underway since early 2019
and as often they brought security along the way. Often these days due to the critical nature
of Cybersecurity, IT will attempt to use me as a pawn, to prevent work they are
unhappy with. In this case, the work was
fine. After the discussion and reviewing the proposal by Cisco, I found no
issues and asked to be engaged more for education than for a burning security
issue.
The day finished with a three-hour meeting with Accenture over
their proposed Cybersecurity Services.
Today, Accenture provides our Security Operations and Security Tools
management, but the contract ends in December.
Several third parties have been engaged to provide these services moving
forward including Accenture. This
meeting was my first opportunity to hear their proposal and as with most to
work they do for me, I was unimpressed.