At 20 years old, you are on a precipice of perception: you are an adult but many adults view you as a kid. In the back of your mind you worry a bit about how adults will perceive you. It was with trepidation that I met my best friend’s Mom in college. My friend George – someone I had only known a couple months, but felt like we had known each other for years – invited me to dinner. I was surprised when his truck stopped in front of my house and he was not in it – instead his mother was. The…
This is a bit off topic, but indulge me. We had a little situation in our neighborhood last week, involving a home invasion. A couple masked (evidently armed) guys tied up a family and ransacked their house. The father was in the garage when the intruders made their entrance. The mother and a teenage child were also in the house. This happened in my sleepy suburban neighborhood, so it can happen anywhere.
It was a bit of a shock to us over two years ago, when we learned the Boy has a lazy eye. We found out when he got evaluated prior to entering kindergarten, and they said he needed to get his eyes examined. The Boss and I have very good vision, especially when we were growing up, so it was unexpected. Ultimately it’s not a big deal. He needs to wear glasses and we have to patch his good eye for a few hours every day to force his weaker eye to get stronger.
As we wrap up our Security Management 2.0 series, we have completed quite a journey. You have undertaken a disciplined and objective process to determine if it’s worth moving to a new security management platform. Assuming that your decision is to move, now it gets real. You need to implement and migrate your existing environment to the new thing, while maintaining service levels and without opening your organization to any additional risk. Walk in the park, right? Let’s address these migration…
It was the idea of a party that got me thinking about it: I loved the 1990’s. It was a great decade – for me at least. I had just graduated college and pretty much everything was new. During that decade I met my wife, got married, got my first place on my own, bought my first house, got my first promotion to CTO, was finally able to buy a car that cost more than a week’s salary, made good money, was best man at four friends’ weddings, started my first company, finally got to travel the US, and…
You have made your decision and recommended it up the food chain, so now the fun part begins. Well, fun for some folks, anyway. For this post we’ll assume you have decided to move to a new platform. We understand some people decide not to move, but use the question of switching as a negotiating tactic. But it bears repeating that it is no bad thing to stay with your existing platform, so long as you have done the work to determine it can meet your requirements. We’re writing this paper for the…
Most security professionals have long understood at least some of the risks of the current ‘web’ or ‘chain’ of trust model for SSL security. To quickly recap for those of you who aren’t hip-deep in this day to day:
As we wrap up our series on Fact-Based Network Security, let’s run through a simple scenario to illustrate the concepts. Remember, the idea is to figure out what on the list will provide the biggest impact for your organization, and then do it. We make trade-offs every day. Some things get done, others don’t. That’s the reality for everyone, so don’t feel bad that you can’t get everything done. Ever. But the difference between a successful security practitioner, and someone looking for a job, is…
I have been looking forward to this day… well, since the Falcons’ season was abruptly cut short by a rampaging Pack last January. We had a little teaser with that great game Thursday, and although both teams couldn’t lose, having the Saints drop a tough one was pretty okay. I weathered a tumultuous lockout during the offseason. Even a bumpy pre-season for both my teams (NY Giants and ATL Falcons) couldn’t deter my optimism. Pro football started Sunday and I was fired up.
I write a lot about payment security. Mostly brief snippets embedded in our weekly Incite, but it’s a topic I follow very closely and remain deeply interested in. Early in my career, I developed electronic wallet and payment gateway software for Internet commerce sites, and application embedded payment options. In have been closely following the technical evolution of this market for over 15 years – back in the days of CyberCash, Paymatech, and JECF. But unlike many of the articles I write,…