I've followed Scott Helme's work for a while now and have been impressed with his approach. So was interested to find out that he had teamed up with BBC Click and Prof Alan Woodward to comprehensively dismantle a vendors claim to total security. Scott has published the whole story on his blog and The BBC Click … Continue reading The Growing Impact of Security Researchers
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Make your vote count
The prestigious European Security Blogger awards are upon us. For those unfamiliar with the European Security blogger awards, it's an award ceremony for bloggers who specialise in security and reside in Europe - at least that what I hope it means. I am fortunate enough to have made it into the finals in five of … Continue reading Make your vote count
How to Fake Monitoring
You're the new guy in the security ops team, they're giving you training and put you on a very crucial and important job… Monitoring. You'll be told how important the job is and how it is essential to be done correctly to ensure the ongoing safety of the company. But you notice that nobody really … Continue reading How to Fake Monitoring
Infosec Friends
For all the talk about it being an echo chamber and the like, I've met a ton of people in security whom I otherwise wouldn't have. As I was pondering over this over breakfast one morning, I came to the conclusion that I end up grouping my infosec friends into different categories. They probably look … Continue reading Infosec Friends
CISSP Reloaded–Domain 8: BCP and DR
This is the 8th part on my CISSP Reloaded where I am revisiting the 10 CISSP domains I studied for many years ago to see what has changed and how much of it I have retained as well as adding in my own personal thoughts, experiences and rambles into the mix. Read the other domains … Continue reading CISSP Reloaded–Domain 8: BCP and DR
Is Lord Sugar an Anonymous Member?
Lord Alan Sugar is Britain’s answer to Donald Trump. Well as much as in that he’s the man behind the desk firing people on the UK’s “Apprentice”. He’s also pretty active on twitter having just short of 2 million followers, so it’s not an understatement to say, he’s pretty popular and influential when compared to … Continue reading Is Lord Sugar an Anonymous Member?
CISSP Reloaded–Domain 7: Applications and Systems Development
This is the 7th part on my CISSP Reloaded where I am revisiting the 10 CISSP domains I studied for many years ago to see what has changed and how much of it I have retained as well as adding in my own personal thoughts, experiences and rambles into the mix. Read the other domains … Continue reading CISSP Reloaded–Domain 7: Applications and Systems Development
CISSP Reloaded–Domain 6, Operations Security
I’ve made it past the mid-way point, I think a bit of self-back patting are in order! This is the 6th part on my CISSP Reloaded where I am revisiting the 10 CISSP domains I studied for many years ago to see what has changed and how much of it I have retained as well … Continue reading CISSP Reloaded–Domain 6, Operations Security
CISSP Reloaded, Domain 5–Security Architecture & Models
This is the 5th part on my CISSP Reloaded where I am revisiting the 10 CISSP domains I studied for many years ago to see what has changed and how much of it I have retained as well as adding in my own personal thoughts, experiences and rambles into the mix. (Domain One) (Domain Two) … Continue reading CISSP Reloaded, Domain 5–Security Architecture & Models
Black Hat Europe 2012 Roundup
So I’ve been back from Amsterdam for a couple of days and have been reflecting on what I learnt and who I spoke to at Black Hat. I realise a lot of the really juicy info was exchanged under a verbal NDA so I can’t disclose any of that. I also acknowledge I didn’t speak … Continue reading Black Hat Europe 2012 Roundup
