http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2005/01/ben-rothke-on-best-practices.html The Emergent Chaos Jazz Combo Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2005/01/ben-rothke-on-best-practices.html/comment-page-1#comment-325 Stuart Berman Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:14:12 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=415#comment-325 True. I would describe best practices as what we all say we should do. The norm is somewhat bleaker. You describe the norm, my neighbor is an example of 'best practices' he runs endlessly and eats less than most of us and food that is far more nutritious. Look forward to reading your blog - glad to have found you. True.
I would describe best practices as what we all say we should do.
The norm is somewhat bleaker. You describe the norm, my neighbor is an example of ‘best practices’ he runs endlessly and eats less than most of us and food that is far more nutritious.
Look forward to reading your blog – glad to have found you.

]]> http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2005/01/ben-rothke-on-best-practices.html/comment-page-1#comment-324 DM Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:23:00 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=415#comment-324 Ben is somewhat offbase in his definition of best practices. In my experience best practices are not defined by industry averages, but rather by what some organization e.g. The Big Three (Four? Five?), SANS uses as their baseline recommendations. Using Ben's analogy, best practices would include automatically clicking on all email attachments, and only periodically remember to update patches and AV. Best Practices however, as a concept is almost as overused as Best of Breed. In both cases, they are only useful at a base level since both are way too general like Ben says. -DM Ben is somewhat offbase in his definition of best practices. In my experience best practices are not defined by industry averages, but rather by what some organization e.g. The Big Three (Four? Five?), SANS uses as their baseline recommendations.
Using Ben’s analogy, best practices would include automatically clicking on all email attachments, and only periodically remember to update patches and AV.
Best Practices however, as a concept is almost as overused as Best of Breed. In both cases, they are only useful at a base level since both are way too general like Ben says.
-DM

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