Job offers from hell
Everybody gets them once in a while : job offers that make you cringe. While processing my personal inbox this evening, I ran into this little gem :Hi WimA global IT service provider are recruiting for...
View Articleso ... you want to support an (ISC)2 board petitioner?
Hiya ... now that election season at (ISC)2 has started again, some of you may ask the very valid question "I voted for this Belgian guy and I didn't see much happening ... why should I vote for this...
View ArticleHire great infosec people (and keep them) !
Earlier this week I had an interesting exchange with several people on Twitter after a statement by Mary Ann Davidson (Oracle CSO) gave at the -apparently awesome- ISSA Conference. It was paraphrased...
View Articlehigh-rolling hot shot executive (m/f) wanted - a perspective
Ok, no, I'm not looking to hire someone. This blogpost is triggered by a question asked by @hackerhuntress earlier today :"if you're passed over for a job, do you mind being notified via voicemail or...
View Article2 million downloads and nobody cares ...
As I'm enjoying a little bit of holidays before I start my new job in 2013, I'm also having the privilege of setting up my new work machine. Some tools are must haves for anybody doing infosec work,...
View Article"Data Honesty" and why IOCs are not (yet)
In the past half decade I've been working in incident response and data analysis extensively, working on projects that helped monitor security-related data on very large networks and helping to...
View ArticleCaveat emptor 101
I try to read as much as I can. Whether it's articles, books, journals, blogposts doesn't really matter. If it is infosec related I'll soak it up and if it's any good I'll probably blend it into a...
View ArticleThe enemy within
I happened to find myself in the couch this evening. Somehow I managed to get hold of the remote control and leisurely zapped through the available channels (there's a crapload of them, unbelievable)....
View ArticleCan we stop losing?
To whomever this may concern,This is a personal post in so much that I need to clear out that I am not speaking for my employer or any other organization that I may be affiliated with. It is also...
View Article3 years flew by ... looking back and looking forward
[Note that I am speaking for myself and not for the (ISC)2 Board of Directors or (ISC)2 as an organization. I believe that 3 years after being elected, it is my responsibility to tell you what we have...
View Article"Hackin" ATMs isn't magic ...
Over the past few weeks, not a day passed without a news outlet or an AV vendor coming up with another post or article on ATM hacking. Today was no different.Network World published an elaborate...
View ArticleCan we ... do better?
Disclaimer: In this blogpost I analyse one particular blogpost. This is not a personal attack against the author of said blogpost nor is it a value judgement against the content produced or the...
View Article(ISC)2's "Vulnerability Central" - what it is and what it isn't
[disclaimer: until December 31st I was a member of the (ISC)2 Board of Directors. My posts here are my personal opinion and not necessarily shared by any of the current Directors or the...
View Article7 things in regards to conference calls
1. Being on time is being too late. You join conference calls 5 (FIVE) minutes beforehand, any later is too late. There can be some technical issues y'all need to root out.2. Use a freaking phone. Most...
View Articleopen letter to the ISC2 Membership
DisclaimerI was an ISC2 Board Member from January 1st 2012 until December 2014. I am an ISC2 Member in good standing. I am, at this moment, not working for ISC2, with ISC2, or in any other fashion...
View ArticleomgSAPpwnage but then again not really ...
Disclaimer: I don't work for SAP. This is a personal blog and none of it represents the opinion of any entity other than myself.That said, I ran across the following article...
View Article8 reasons why you are not a cyber soldier
Most recently I entered a twitter "debate" that wasn't really a debate at all. While the person that initiated the debate seemed to be looking to get consensus on the definition a certain term, their...
View ArticleChanges to the (ISC)2 Bylaws : Your vote is important
Note 1 :This post is only relevant if you are (looking to become) a member of (ISC)2 Note 2 : As a member of (ISC)2 you might not care about voting on any matters related to (ISC)2. In this case, your...
View ArticleLeading in a do-oacracy ... afterthoughts
There's nothing like arriving in Las Vegas and Chris Nickerson roping you into a panel at BSides titled "Leading in a Do-ocracy". The panel was posted in the "I am the cavalry" track and the abstract...
View ArticleOne (ISC)2
Today I am kicking off my campaign for the (ISC)2 Board of Directors elections. You can find the slate here : https://www.isc2.org/board-slate/default.aspxI'm excited to see so many good (and new!)...
View ArticleThe plans I have for ISC2, its membership, and the industry
[This post is primarily meant for ISC2 Members but it might be interesting for security people in general, as I think what we need to do is not limited to a particular organization within our industry....
View Articleof the CISSP, infosec licensure, and how we bring things upon ourselves
[Disclaimer: this post represents my personal opinion. It does not represent the opinion of any past, present, or future employers, clients, or associates.I was looking forward to a quiet Saturday...
View ArticleTake my crypto from my cold dead hands
As much as our society today relies on technology, very few people actually understand how it works. This isn't only reflected in the fact that many of us geeks spend the holidays fixing random...
View ArticleConsulting for charity
It's been a while since I posted here and while I have some blog posts in the works, I wanted to make this a quick one (Q4 is upon us ... we got work to do too!).When I got to my gym today, there was a...
View ArticleDear Matt Harrigan, I apologize.
Dear Matt,We never met and while I know of you, I don't personally know you.Earlier this week some "friends" of you made the horrible decision to screenshot a few Facebook posts of yours and take them...
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