Technical Adversary

I’ve started a posterous effort to address the complaints about the use of the word hacker by talking about serious criminal activity.

As the achievements of technology become more mainstream, more technology will be used in criminal activity. Serious criminals and big crime in malware and data breaches is just the internet coming of age. It [...]

Textella

My friend Ralph Covelli presented on his long time effort of Textella this weekend at [...]

Security Information Management [SIM]

This is no simple task as there is a lot of sales material that will promise anything, but from the presentation of the architecture and real-world benchmarking, a clear image may present itself.Two of the large commercial research firms authored materials were also gathered to assist in this mater, though one of them was shockingly inaccurate, unfamiliar with the history and utility of the tools in practice, and offered some very poor advice in its conclusions. Unfortunately this is all too common in my experience with commercial research, so the wise buyer of capital investment level hardware and software would be best served to spend the time evaluating each architecture, dependancies, and challenges if they are able.That being said, I will begin my presentation: A SIM implementation has the ability to solve a variety of problems at once due to its evolution from a log management [...]

IT Compliance Institute Conference

I am a speaker at the ITCi compliance conference this November in San Diego.

The speakers list and agenda are both very impressive.  I’m excited and pleased to be included.

It should be a great conference, and I’ll hope to see you there.

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Cocktail time!

It was a lovely day. So lovely that I thought that I would improve things slightly by adding a cocktail for everyone into the weekend enjoyment.I had most of the ingrediants for mojitos, which have been somewhat fashionable to make in bars [...]