Booth Babes Banned at RSA – A CSO’s View
While I was unable to attend RSA this year, after reading Chenxi Wang’s LinkedIn post on ‘Booth Babes’, I have to say… It’s about damn time. To briefly recount a personal experience,…
DetailsThe IoT and The End of the Ownership Society
When I was a kid, I owned a rather substantial record collection. It included The Who, Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, and other groups popular in the late ’60’s early 70’s. …
DetailsPositive or Negative, Security Needs to be Right
One of the aphorisms used in security is, “We have to be right all of the time, and the bad guys only have to be right once.” While this may…
DetailsTech Vendors Look to Singapore as Hub for Asian Headquarters
Singapore is quickly becoming the country of choice for technology vendors seeking to establish a hub in Asia. Ranked first in Asia, and seventh worldwide, in the Global Innovation Index…
DetailsTruly Positive About True Negatives
Bayes’ Theorem essentially measures the degree of belief, or certainty in something. The Cybersecurity industry has been challenged with the idea of sensitivity and specificity for quite some time. In…
DetailsFalsely Negative About False Positives
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are very inefficient but very effective. Auditors are careful to be sure their findings are accurate so that they are not accused of being…
DetailsAnalyzing InfoSec Opportunity Costs
There are a number of lessons that we in security can learn from the world of economics. This isn’t an original observation on my part: in fact, there are a…
DetailsIf Only Email Could Fix My Security Problems
Just for fun, I decided to count how many unsolicited emails I got in a 24 hour period offering to either fix my security problems, fix my network problems, fix…
DetailsThe Rise and Rise of Bad Bots – Part 2 – Beyond Web-Scraping
Anyone who listened to Aleks Krotoski’s 5 short programs on Radio 4 in the UK titled Codes that Changed the World will have been reminded that applications written in COBOL, despite…
DetailsThe Rise and Rise of Bad Bots – Part 1 – Little DDoS
Many will be familiar with the term bot, short for web-robot. Bots are essential for effective operation of the web: web-crawlers are a type of bot, automatically trawling sites looking…
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