I discovered Jeff Snyder’s Security Recruiter blog the other day via Rothman’s blog, and I read his latest post about what a banking client was looking for in a security candidate. Seems like they want someone with “Risk Management” experience and “a deep understanding of Regulatory Compliance issues.” Makes sense. But wait! There is a caveat! […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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My sales guy and I have a small little office in one of those business suite companies (actually, the company is called Businessuites) where there are several small companies on a single floor that has a single receptionist, etc. Anyway, we have a firewall / VPN device, a switch, a WAP, and a little NAS […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
LoverVamp has taken issue with Andy’s post about user education being the key to security. LV says: I’m not sure I would say that user education is key and that without it we may as well put up open wifi. I think user education is very important, but it won’t solve IT security any more […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Let’s talk about manufacturer’s for a bit. This may seem a bit jaded, but manufacturers are often viewed the same way as politicians. They make promises that their technology can do such-and-such, but in the end, they really don’t do much different that the next technology that is trying to do the same thing. It would […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Since I started working at Accuvant, I have been leery of blogging about products that we sell. Since we are not a manufacturer, I don’t feel like I have to worry as much about becoming a corporate whore, but I want to make sure I stay somewhat above the fray so I don’t look like […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Is it just my imagination, or has there been a lack of security blogging meat here lately? There have been a few things happening, but I am fairly bored with stuff right now. The Mac Book hack over at Matasano was pretty cool, but I hinestly didn’t want to blog about it because it all […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The TRISC show is coming up in a month. If you are in Texas and are interested in going, sign up soon. There are some good keynotes, and yours truly is speaking there about using blogging as a research tool. Download the brochure here. I also found out yesterday that Cutaway, a blogging buddy of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Congrats to David Maynor at the Errata Security blog. You are an official Information Security Place Orange Juice Award recipient for your hilarious post about the recent RIM Blackberry outage. I know, I know,… you are honored and humbled. No need to get mushy. Seriously, that was funny stuff. I especially like the part about […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Andy, IT Guy has accused me of being jealous about his blogging success and says I tried to run him off the road. Well, here’s the truth Andy. I never get my own hands dirty. I have people to take of my light work. And I also have inserted some code into your website, so […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Looks like my friends at Alert Logic have received a top notch review from SC Magazine. Congrats guys! Take a look here for the article (PDF). Vet
This is kinda funny. Computerworld put out an article about 20 “must have” Firefox extensions. Then, they put out an article on 10 Firefox extensions to avoid. And in that “avoid” article, they talked about the NoScript plugin, a plugin that I use and love. Here’s what they say about avoiding this plugin: This extension […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Been covering for our Dallas SE this week and last week, so it has been crazy lately. I went from covering on sales rep to covering six, so I have been travelling to Dallas quite a bit (twice this week, and spent last night here). Hopefully I will be back in the swing of things […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Dallas today doing a quick dive into the Websense Content Protection Suite . This is the information leakage protection product formerly known as PortAuthority. I looked at these guys a while back when I was a security manager. They get their accuracy by fingerprinting your data. Basically, they crawl your files and databases and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A client called me at 8:30am yesterday in a panic because they have the Rinbot worm running around in their network. The client is actually a former employer of mine, and they still have much of the same hardware and software when I was there 6 years ago, which means Dell Pentium 3 400Mhz servers […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My wife and I had to travel to Dallas in separate vehicles on Monday. We came back yesterday. I was following her, and we both stopped for a bio break and to get some gas. We both pulled up to the gas station at the same pump, here minivan on one side, my car on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Want some training on defeating rogue AP’s? Want to learn how to defend against Google hacking. Well, you’re in luck!! Douglas Haider is a buddy of mine, and he is and one of Accuvant’s Senior Wireless Security Consultants. He is teaching some SANS courses in the Dallas and Irving areas. This dude knows his stuff. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cobia Beta has been released by StillSecure. Cobia is similar to UTM, but it is combining a lot of different aspects of networking as well as security in one package. I have done some alpha testing on the product, though I have not been able to really sink my teeth into it yet. I like […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Take a look at this link. I think this is a splog (spam blog) about taxi’s. It picked up my post about the cab driver incident involving Alan, Mitchell, and myself when we were at RSA. I don’t think I have ever been linked by a splog before. Weird. Vet
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