Whaling for Beginners by Jerome Vincent

Author:Jerome Vincent
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RESILIA Publications

The flow of numbers from Gloria was becoming less painful. Not because the numbers weren’t bad, but because Jim was starting to feel numb. The breach had changed him. It had certainly changed his company – that much was obvious. He realized that the cyber-attack Baines Packaging had suffered was an existential event.

Taryn Lowell laughed when he used that word; “Existential? Now, that’s not your usual Jim Baines word.”

“I know what it means,” Jim said.

“Sure, you do. But, knowing it and using it are two different things.”

“Too pretentious?”

“For you? Definitely. Actually, it is for most people.” Taryn laughed.

Jim frowned. Taryn put her finger to her lips. She didn’t want to get too flippant with Jim. There was too much work to do.

“So, you’ve changed. The attack has changed you. Right?” Taryn said.

“Yes. You go from feeling indestructible… impregnable… safe behind the walls of your company; confident that you’re heading in the right direction and that things can only get better… and then you do something stupid and suddenly you realize how complacent you’ve been for so, so long. Not just about cyber-security, but about… the way you live, the way you… are.” Jim rubbed his face with his hands.

“This is really getting to you, isn’t it?” Taryn said.

“Not in a bad way… I mean… yes, in a bad way… but not anymore. We have to fight back. I have to fight back.” Jim said.

“OK – I thought that’s what we’re doing, I mean, with Domenic Rizzo and all…”

“Sure, but I want to speak out. Get ahead of the story. Be the story of… the guy who spoke up, raised awareness and fought back.” Jim balled his hands into fists but resisted the temptation to pound his desk.

“So, we need to talk strategy.”

“Get Rizzo… and let’s go over it.”

“And Crawford?”

Jim hesitated. Crawford Sykes was spending more and more time at home. His role as CIO was slowly… deflating. Jim couldn’t think of a different way of describing what was happening to his old friend. At some point, he was going to have to talk to Crawford about retirement. A gentle transition from an active member of the board to a more ‘advisory’ position, perhaps. It would hurt. They’d been together since the beginning. But Crawford’s time was past. Jim knew he had to act. Which meant appointing a new CIO – and that would mean finding someone who he could trust and who would fit into Baines Packaging…

He slowed his train of thought and switched tracks. Was he looking at his new CIO already?

Taryn frowned and cocked her head quizzically: “You OK, Jim?”

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