Common sense is the most important element in Information Security and I am working in the IS domain! So who knows this better than me. The problem is the people (generally) and so many IS clients and professionals do not realize this simple fact.
I am prompted by this knowledge and realization gap to present Common Sense 101 - a compilation of CS resources from all over the net - hoping it makes sense to you and you benefit from it in your practice.
2. Welcome to Common Sense 101
• I needed some references for a
presentation and blindly went
begging the search engines…
• Got gazillion responses and life
was more miserable
• Realized I wasn’t using my
common sense (which I have in
abundance)!
• It worked
How
THIS
CAME
ABOUT
3. Welcome to Common Sense 101
• Now that I had time on hand I
searched “common sense” and
got some great and hilarious stuff
• So I just collated some of the
findings to share with the world
• My comments are as Guru
Mantras
• IAC.. Enjoy and keep this file as a
ready reference
Why
THIS
CAME
ABOUT
4. So Now That You know the
Why and How … jump on
this hilarious ride and try
to gauge if you have
commonsense
5. • The common factor was that the
message of common sense is so
obvious and staring in your face that
you overlook it (either because you
are embarrassed on realizing how
foolish you are or you are scraping
the bottom on CS)
6. Guru Mantra
• Don’t share any of your passwords
with anyone (including your dog)
• This means password(s) for
netbanking, email, social media
accounts, blogs, etc and your ATM
PIN(s)
Image sourced from http://zentocoach.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/guru-is-dead-may-the-tribe-decrease/ and used through
the presentation
7. Oh Voltaire
was so right
when he said
this.
You have to
discover how to
switch it on and
use it – all of
which makes it
uncommon.
8. Common Sense is Uncommon
This is so true when we
look around us… the
image on this slide is as
old as mankind itself
and all of us have
friends,
foes
and
relatives
who
have
indulged themselves in
this uncommon position
- Dinesh
http://thewritersadvice.com/2013/07/15/common-sense-or-advice/
9. Oh OK
So Voltaire said the same thing long before me!
But he did not have PowerPoint
And this is my presentation.
12. Is Common Sense a
Concealed Weapon?
Congress maybe the
only
place
that
"common
sense"
is
considered to be a
concealed weapon! ...
because we certainly
couldn't see any of it on
display this past week!
http://www.politicalpizza.net/2012/12/is-common-sense-concealedweapon.html
Or a WMD !
13. Haha .. No wonder we
never recognize it!
Who ever gave a
second
look
at
someone in work
clothes.
See
someone
in
designer clothes or
nattily dressed and
you have a second and
third, and … look at
him/her – duh!
14. IQ in Relations to
Common Sense
The IQ test is a very good estimate
of ones intellectual intelligence but
what about common sense? We all
know that friend or someone who is
intellectually smart, but lacks that
common sense. Street smarts or
common sense can be defined as an
action that relies on differing the
good
from
the
bad.
Does
intellectual intelligence have any
correlation with common sense? I
believe it does because to make a
"smart" or right choice on a decision
requires some sort of intelligence.
But
to
what
degree
does
intelligence play a role?
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/vanm0049/psy1001section09spri
ng2012/2012/04/iq-in-relations-to-common-sense.html
22. Obituary For Common Sense
http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2011/09/obituary-for-common-sense/
23. This is an Obituary for Common Sense that purportedly first
appeared in the London Times – though I can find no proof that it
was ever actually published there.
• Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend,
Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No
one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records
were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
• He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable
lessons as:-Knowing when to come in out of the rain; –
Why the early bird gets the worm;- Life isn’t always fair; –
And maybe it was my fault. Common Sense lived by simple,
sound financial policies, don’t spend more than you can
earn and adults, not children, are in charge.
24. This is an Obituary for Common Sense that purportedly first
appeared in the London Times – though I can find no proof that it
was ever actually published there.
• His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but
overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old
boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens
suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a
teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his
condition.
• Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for
doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining
their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were
required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an
aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student
became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
25. This is an Obituary for Common Sense that purportedly first
appeared in the London Times – though I can find no proof that it
was ever actually published there.
• Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses;
and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common
Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar
in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
• Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to
realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her
lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
• Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust,
by his wife Discretion, his daughter Responsibility, and his son, Reason.
He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, I Want It Now,
Someone Else Is To Blame, and I’m A Victim. Not many attended his
funeral because so few realized he was gone.
30. It is a thousand times
better to have
common sense
without education
than to have
education without
common sense.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
What a grand thing it
is to be cleaver and
have common sense.
~ Terence
To see what is in front
of one’s nose requires
a constant struggle.
~ George Orwell
Common
sense ain’t
common.
Common sense and a
sense of humor are the
same thing, moving at
different speeds. A sense
of humor is just common
sense dancing.
~ William James
~ Will Rogers
Success is more a
function of consistent
common sense that it
is of genius.
~ An Wang
All truth, in the
long run, is only
common sense
clarified.
~ Thomas Henry
Huxley
31. The biggest shortage
of all is the shortage of
common sense.
~ Unknown
Common sense is
calculation applied to
life.
~ Henri Frederic Ami
The philosophy of one
century is the common
sense of the nest.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
When unsure how to
solve a problem, use
your common sense.
~ Catherine Pulsifer
Common sense and good
nature will do a lot to make
the pilgrimage of life not too
difficult.
~ William Somerset Maugham
Nowdays most people die of a
sort of creeping common
sense and discover when it is
too late that the only things
one never regrets are one’s
mistakes.
~ Oscar Wilde
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no
one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
~ Rene Descartes
38. Why do so many people lack common sense?
• Rene Descartes said, "Common sense is the most widely
shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced
that he is well supplied with it." OK, he was being tongue-incheek, but Voltaire got right to the point: "Common sense is
not so common."
• But you didn't want quotes, you wanted to know why
there’s not so much of it around, and I can only tell you my
own experience.
http://dozyskaleidoscope.blogspot.in/2012/03/w
hy-do-so-many-people-lack-common-sense.html
I've made a lot of mistakes that, with a little common sense, I
could easily have avoided. Why? Sometimes I was
emotionally involved, sometimes I wanted an outcome I
couldn't reasonably expect, sometimes it was sheer egotism.
If I ever stood before that Great White Throne we’re warned about in the Bible, and the book
containing all my shortcomings was opened, I could tell you many of the accusations that would
be written there—and a lot of those would show lack of common sense.
It's human nature. Sure, we're rational beings, but we're emotional beings, too. And we're
individuals—so sometimes we can make the mistake of behaving as though we ARE islands in a sea
of other individuals. If I can end with yet another quote, John Andrew Holmes put it this way: “It is
well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is
composed of others.”
46. The Common Sense Meter
http://contactcentercoaching.com/2009/09/the-common-sense-meter/
• Many years ago, I was taught the invaluable
lesson of quantifying the subjective….
• Working hard as an Operations Manager in Tier2
outsourcer, the team I was on reported into a very
interesting Regional HR Director…. A favorite quote
from him was
“Dan, where does that (action or decision) sit on the
common sense meter?”
• Often, when he asked folks this question, they
were a touch stunned…. In fact we were unable
to answer as we were not sure the set of units
used by the fabled Common Sense Meter
• Thank Goodness for Blaine Lewis, for he was able
to measure the immeasurable.
47.
48. Dictionary Definition
This was to be a fun information piece so I decided to
share boring stuff like quoting long text from
dictionaries for the last
You have already read and imbibed all that is needed
to know about CS and I am sure this must have lit the
CS fire in you too
Oh ok – here goes!
49. Common Sense – Definition
(pg 1)
• Common sense is defined by Merriam-Webster
as,
"sound and prudent judgment based on a
simple perception of the situation or facts.“
• It is believed that in most cases that simple
perception is "good enough". But, simple
perceptions fail to adequately capture the import
of context or situation. They are poor at
reflecting more than single order effects (where
a leads to b). By relying on common sense,
we are in effect relying on the assumption that
simple perceptions are adequate for the task or
50. Common Sense – Definition (pg
2)
• When simple perceptions are inadequate, then the need for tools
that enable better access to “what, who, and how much” one needs
to know becomes painfully obvious. Expanding upon common sense - either in the form of developing better tools for simple
perceptions, better methods for simplifying complex perceptions,
or better approaches for making judgments based on these simple
perceptions just will not help in that portion of the world where
"success" lies in developing an understanding of boundaries,
constraints, and possibilities inherent in the interactions of large
numbers of autonomous and semi-autonomous agents.
• Many attempts have been made over the years to
refine the notion of common sense -- nearly all
have run into the same obstacle: simple
perceptions are oft times inadequate to capture
what we need to know about a given situation or
context in which we find ourselves
• Thus the need to expand our repertoire beyond
common sense.
51. • Everyone is a genius at least once a
year. The real geniuses simply have
their bright ideas closer together.
52. • The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. ~ Euripides
• The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred
character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at
number 79. ~ Douglas Adams
• Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and
doing things as they ought to be done. ~ Harriet Beecher
Stowe
• Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world
calls wisdom. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Common sense is nature’s gift, but reason is an art. ~ James
Beattie
• If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the
fixity of the stars. ~Fernan Caballero
• Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not
to. ~ George Seaton