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SubscribeHoward Schmidt went the distance
May 18, 2012
With Howard Schmidt leaving the White House at the end of the month, the critiquing of his tenure is in full swing -- as it should be. There are still plenty of loose ends dangling in D.C., most notably Congress' inability to craft legislation that strikes the right balance between security...
#FFSec: Security pros to follow on Twitter, May 18
May 18, 2012
Follow these names on Twitter. Together, they make cyberspace a more secure place. (copy and paste)
ISSA-LA's Security Summit IV is tomorrow
May 15, 2012
I'm in sun-kissed L.A. today, wrapping up some tasks before attending what promises to be an eventful meeting of security minds tomorrow: Security Summit IV, organized by the local chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). The event runs from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the...
Is The Time Right To Spread Your Risk?
May 15, 2012
As the broadening gap between our ambitions for a secure enterprise and our abilities to deliver on such a vision become self-evident, the time has come to pay equal attention to the poor cousin of risk management, “TRANSFER.”
'Apocalypse Now' meets #infosec
May 11, 2012
Being a pop culture junkie, I often find myself comparing the fictional world with the real-life world of information security. If I wrote about plumbing, I suppose I would find myself comparing some movie or musical piece to that. But security is my subject, and the movie I can't help but...
#FFSec: Security pros to follow on Twitter, May 11
May 11, 2012
Follow these names on Twitter. Together, they make cyberspace a more secure place. (copy and paste)
Live from Hollywood: An #infosec meeting of the minds
May 08, 2012
Last fall I lamented in a post about the lack of security conferences in L.A. and vowed that if I found some, I would start going. Why should San Francisco and San Jose get all the glory? And so, next week -- May 16, specifically -- I'll be at Information Security Summit IV at Universal...
Things security vendors send me
May 07, 2012
I walked into the office this morning to find that security vendor eIQnetworks sent me a big package in the mail. I opened it to find a lightsaber. Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber, still in its packaging.
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