Daniel Miessler has posted a pretty good breakdown of the differences between the GSEC cert and the CISSP cert. He is coming at it from the aspect of which one involves more technical savvy. Without a doubt the GSEC is the more technical of the two. I have both, and the GSEC was infinitely more […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Motorola just got awarded some patents this year, and they claim Aruba is selling that same technology. Take a look here. Vet
Here’s a USA Today story about the shoe scanner getting the boot (get it?? the boot?? Come on, that was funny!!). Vet
Looks like Mr. Mogull is on his own now. He gave some good years to Gartner, learned a lot, and now he is running the independent race. And that means he can blog on security again… WOO HOO!! That also means that I can put him back into my “Security Blogs” feed in BlogBridge (you were in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
OK, here’s the post I promised on why I agree that IDS is not dead and won’t be for a while. What it all essentially comes down to is reality. In theory, the way anyone’s network should be designed is in the fashion of the Core-Distribution-Access methodology. First of all, this is obviously a very […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wrote a while back about how selling to government sucks because of the RFP process you typically have to go through. Well, my boss just pointed out this book to me. The advise for answering RFP’s is priceless. Even if you will never answer an RFP yourself, read this to know some of the pain […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was at a client site the other day… Wait a minute. I just realized how often I open posts with that line now. I feel like Snoopy: It was a dark and stormy night! Anyway, I was visiting a client the other day (yea, that’s better ), and I was accompanied by my sales guy […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Don’t ask why. Just felt like posting it. Vet
OK, this is hilarious. Looks like Toys ‘R Us WAS carrying this “toy” (the link at Toys ‘R Us doesn’t work any more – my guess is because a lawyer got involved, but who knows). Here’s what Matt Blaze had to say about it on his post: As strongly as I feel about the evils of illegal […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Looks like Google and Microsoft (Hotmail) are getting smacked by the HotLan trojan now, which evidently is finding a way around the captcha system they have in place to stop automated email account creation. From this article: According to Viorel Canja, head of BitDefender Antivirus Lab, around 514,000 Hotmail accounts were created as of last […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My buddy Don Weber is mentoring for the GSEC course down in Corpus Christi, TX. Don brings a lot of practical knowledge to SANS, something the mentoring program is known for. I have taken the mentoring program, and it really prepared me for the GSEC test. Definitely recommended. And like Martin said in his pimp post, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you don’t normally read my blog at Computerworld, do me a favor and take a look at my latest post over there. This subject is something that really irks me. Vet
http://www.rsa.com/press_release.aspx?id=8631 Vet
Been getting a steady flow of greeting card spam trying to get me to visit some different sites. All the IPs are in the bowels of Comcast. Hi. Friend has sent you a greeting ecard.See your card as often as you wish during the next 15 days. SEEING YOUR CARD If your email software creates […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
OK, Alan and and Dominic, what is the deal? Why are you guys beating each other up? In fact, why is Alan getting into a punching match every other week with either another NAC vendor or someone who doesn’t like NAC? Why is there always such controversy over NAC? I believe there is one big […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
OK, I am officially depressed. Here’s Richard Bejtlich’s impression of the state of security after one day at BlackHat: My overall impression from the first day of briefings can be summarized in this manner. Existing defenses are absolutely ineffective against current attacks. I am struggling to describe the importance of this insight. It does not […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I know I am late on posting about this (I am out of whack – trying to sell the house, been sick, had my parents in for two days, my middle child turned 5, working on multiple RFPs, etc, etc, etc.). But when I saw Andy’s post about this WSJ article about how to evade your […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sorry that I have not been blogging a lot lately. Still getting over my flu or whatever it was. I am trying to get back into the swing of things. I hate it when I am not blogging on a regular basis. Vet
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