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Open Tabs 11/03/11
This week’s podcast conversation with HD Moore and Josh Corman was a good thing. Getting the ideas of “HD Moore’s Law“, the security poverty line and security debt out there so other people can beat...
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Why are we talking philosophy instead of technology?
A friend of mine recently complained in Twitter that, according to his count, nearly 80% of all talks given at the security conferences he’d looked at recently were now non-technical. It might be in...
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Notes from SOURCE Seattle
I got to attend my first SOURCE event last week, thanks to a lucky confluence of events which freed up my time. Mainly, I didn’t have to go to the PCI Council’s Community Meeting and was able to take...
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Network Security Podcast, Episode 291
This week’s show went a little long, as all three of us had a lot to say on the stories we covered. We also spent more than a few minutes at the beginning of the show talking about some of the...
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Can DevOps become SecOps?
This is an incomplete thought. This week I saw Gene Kim give his talk on DevOps and The Phoenix Project for the first time. I’d read the book and loved it, but I’d never seen Gene put life into the...
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Using the Secret Weapon
I’m not the most organized person in the world; I never have been and I never will be. But I’ve usually been able to keep a modicum of organization in my life by using pen and paper and a notebook....
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Security in popular culture
One of the shows I’ve started watching since coming to the UK is called “QI XL“. It’s a quiz show/comedy hour hosted by Stephen Fry where he asks trivia questions of people who I assume are...
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Twitter spam filters overloaded
I believe the Twitter spam filters are currently overloaded or at least someone’s figure out a way around them. In the last 72 hours, I’ve gotten more twitter followers than I normally get in a three...
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Is pay rising with demand in security?
If you follow me on twitter, you know I like to throw out questions occasionally just to stir things up. On Friday I asked the following question about jobs in the security realm: We keep hearing...
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“All we need to do is …. redo everything”
I love listening to idealists. In fact, I’d be one if it wasn’t for the crushing despair and cynicism that working in the security profession has instilled in me. Or maybe I work in this field...
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