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Alan and Mitchell at the StillSecure After All These Years podcast interviewed me last week for their podcast. It is up here at Alan’s site and here at Mitchell’s site.  I gave an update on my move to the channel, about honesty in selling security, the converging of the security professional and the general IT professional article I wrote at CW, and some other stuff.  It was fun.
Thanks to Alan and Mitchell for having me on again. I really enjoy talking about myself, as anyone can plainly see, and Alan and Mitchell actually seem to genuinely be interested in the people they interview. They are two great guys that I hope to meet soon at the RSA Conference security blogger gathering (not sure if Mitchell is going to be there, but I know Alan is going to show).

Thanks for the kind words, guys. You are two class acts.

And Alan, notice that I did not alter the picture in any way!  Or did I?
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Go listen here.

Thanks again to Alan and Mitchell for having me on the panel.  And thanks to the panel for a great discussion.

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I forgot to mention that I was a guest panelist on Alan Shimel’s SSAATY podcast last night.  This was a great panel.  I had a great time, and I think we really hit some key points and offered some solutions to security admins and managers out there that need some help selling security to execs.

The panel consisted of yours truly along with Martin McKeay (Network Security Blog, ComputerWorld), Bobby Dominguez (Sykes) and Mike Rothman (SecurityIncite, NetworkWorld).  It was hosted by Alan and Mitchell, two of the best podcast hosts I know, and though I have never met either face to face, I know they are both good guys.

One person that was scheduled but ran into some emergency security management duties was Michael from mcwresearch.com.  I understand why he couldn’t be there, but I really missed his insight.  I would have loved to hear some of his horror stories.

BTW, I was VERY impressed by Bobby Dominguez.  I have never talked to Bobby, but I figured out very quickly yhat he has a vast amount of experience, expertise, and just plain ol’ smarts.  You REALLY need to listen to this guy.  Hopefully he will start a blog soon himself.  He has a lot to offer the community.

Martin is always good to have on a discussion like this because he has a lot of experience in this area.  He never ceases to impress.

And Mike Rothman, well…, he’s Mike.  What else need be said?  And we actually agreed on something in the podcast, if you can believe it!  Actually, Mike and I agree on a lot of things.  We just like to disagree to make it exciting.

And of course, there’s me.  ‘Nuff said!

Anyway, the podcast should be up soon.  Go look for it in the next few days at Alan’s blog.

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You probably don’t need me to post this since you probably read Martin’s blog if you read mine, but he landed an interview with Bruce Schneier and got it posted yesterday.

Well, to make it even better, Bruce posted the link on his blog today. Martin is seeing some increasing traffic now for the podcast, and he is as giddy as a schoolgirl.

Way to go Martin!

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Alan Shimel from StillSecure was kind enough to have me as his featured guest on his podcast tonight.  Alan is a great guy and a great blogger, and I am proud to call him one of my blogging buddies.

We were joined by Mitchell Ashley (a.k.a. Ed McMahon), the CTO of StillSecure, who seems like a great guy as well.  He just started blogging, and you can find him at http://www.theconvergingnetwork.com/. 

I just have to say that I had a great time tonight.  The people over at StillSecure are a class act.  As I mention in the podcast, I don’t get the usual line of BS from these guys.  They tell you what is and what ain’t, and that is it.  Nice people all around.

Thanks again to Alan and Mitchell.

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