I went to a mini-conference on PCI DSS today in Dallas (it was put on by a vendor partner of ours, but was surprisingly vendor agnostic). Anyway, I got some impressions from the speakers that I would like to share. One of the keynote speakers was Bob Russo, the General Manager of the the PCI […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There is a client of ours that I just picked up (I just got assigned to a couple of extra account managers). Supposedly we had been trying to get them to have an assessment done for a while. Well, their website got defaced the other day. Now they want a security assessment done in the worst way. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello,How is your day?My name is Mr Mark Brown , I would be very interested in offering you a part-time paying job in which you could earn as much as $3000 in a month. This job would be based on contract and commission terms, it is a part-time job and it would involve quite a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From ThinkGeek. Vet
I had a discussion the other day with one of the sales guys I support. His contention is that it is the sales person / account manager that matters most in the customer relationship. Basically, SE’s come and go, but the important thing is if the AM stays the same. They are responsible for the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I saw this article this morning about Fortinet making a deal in Cook County, Illinois. I don’t know how big this one is, and I know this is probably sponsored, but Fortinet seems to be making some big headway. I have had some clients talking to me about their stuff. I know a couple of guys that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s a new security blog out there, and this one is another Accuvant employee (so you know it is going to be good). His name is Jim Broome, and his blog is called Jim’s Bloggyness. Jim is an Assessments Team Lead at Accuvant, and he is one smart dude. Here’s his profile: Jim Broome, an information security […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
OK, I am not going to take credit for this (especially since no one credited me with starting it), but there sure do seem to be a lot of posts here lately about whether or not we are making a difference as info sec folk. I wrote a post early Monday morning about whether security nirvana […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Vet
I know, I know. I can answer that question with a resounding “NO” and get on with things. But seriously, what does it take to even approach security nirvana? I mean really, there are so many people spouting theories about where we need to go to make the Internet secure. Then there are a bunch of frickin’ […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have always been hesitant to use friends within companies as a means to getting business. I just think it is a very dangerous move and can kill the friendship along with the business deal if something goes south. I have had two instances of this happen this week. One involves a former coworker of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a busy day yesterday, and my feet were hurting by 4pm (on my feet all day AND new shoes). But the day ended in a good time at the local Houston OWASP chapter meeting. Jeremiah Grossman presented his Top 10 Web exploits presentation, which was excellent. And though I had talked to Jeremiah […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My job at Accuvant has been retooled a bit as far as the travel that will be required. Basically, I will be traveling to Dallas a bit more, maybe two days out of the week. Though I go up there quite a bit now, it is very ad hoc now. At least this way it will […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
OK, maybe not a complete success. We had 8 people show up (including me). But for the first one I can confidently say that it wasn’t a bust. If it wasn’t for the AlertLogic guys showing up (they were early, I might add) the gathering would have been sparse. And Misha dancing on the bar really made the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
REMINDER!!! BayouSec is tonight at 7pm. We are meeting at the Dave and Buster’s on Richmond Ave. The address and phone number is: 6010 Richmond Avenue Houston , TX 77057 713/952-2233 Come out and have a good time. Vet
I am going to make another parallel of security to the real world (not that security isn’t the real world, but I couldn’t think of a better term to use). Of course, this parallel might make some of the guys out there question my manhood, but oh well. So my wife is a sugar artist. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was going to write about this (and here), but I was actually working today and missed it until I got home. I knew something was going on when I came home and Outlook showed that it was downloading 312 messages (I normally get 50 – 60 in my personal email). Sheesh… [UPDATE]: A forum has now been […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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