With the new launch of blog.ncircle.com, we got a chance to name our individual blogs. An explanation of the name I picked makes for a good first post. The world around us is not as it seems. In fact, every view of the world we get is mediated via a lens of some kind. There's one on each of our eyes, which we can't get around for now, and we often further mediate our vision with additional lenses. Corrective glasses, contacts, cameras, binoculars, and microscopes all further mediate our view. We use lenses to modify our view, to gain additional perspectives that we're not capable of getting on our own.

And that's where we enter the metaphor. This blog should act as a lens on information security, providing a perspective that the reader cannot get on their own.

Welcome to The Lens.