I referred back to the Pragmatic CSO tips when I started the Vulnerability Management Evolution series (the paper hit yesterday, by the way) and there was some good stuff in there, so let me once again dust off those old concepts and highlight another one. This one dealt with the reality that you are a business person, not a security person.
When I first meet a CSO, one of the first things I...
A friend told me this week they were on Pinterest. I responded, “I’m sorry! How long does your employer allow you to take off?” I was seriously thinking this was something like paternity leave or one of those approved medical absence programs. I really wondered when he got sick, and what his prognosis was. He told me, “No, I’m on Pinterest to market my new idea....
Organizations have traditionally viewed vulnerability scanners as tactical products, largely commoditized and only valuable around audit time. How useful is a 100-page vulnerability report to an operations person trying to figure out what to fix next? Although those 100-page reports make auditors smile, as they offer a nice listing of audit deficiencies to address in the findings of fact. But the...
Wasn’t it just yesterday that we put XX1 on the bus for her first day of kindergarten? I guess if yesterday was August of 2006, that would be correct. Man, six years have gone by fast! On Friday she moves up to Middle School. As we watched the annual Field Day festivities with all the kids dressed up in their countries’ garb yesterday, the kindergartners seemed so small. And they are...
One of the things I truly love about writing for Securosis and TidBITS is that I am rarely put in a position where I need to be first to write about something. As a writer, and occasionally a journalist, I consider time the ultimate luxury. Unfortunately, few journalists have this liberty, and even fewer appreciate it.
Yesterday was a perfect and tragic expression of the state of modern media,...
Data masking has been around a long time. I have been masking since the early ’90s to create test data from production copies of customer insurance records, as well as to alter database columns before sending database exports out for “data cleansing”. At the time masking was little more than UNIX shell scripts or home grown Perl scripts to alter particular columns in .csv files...
Rich and I – with help from Chris Pepper – compiled the Understanding and Selecting a Database Security Platform series into a research paper, and provided it to a number of people for initial review. We got a lot of valuable feedback and observations back. Commenters felt several topics were under-served, they believe others were over-emphasized, and more we failed to mention. We...
Rich here. It amazes me how something completely mundane can be utterly fascinating the first time you experience it.
This morning I woke up about 5:45 as I heard my younger daughter waking up herself. If history held, she had been up for a little while and was ready to get out of her crib. Now!!! Nothing new there, and I started the painful process of getting out of bed (I d hammered my bad...
What ever happened to the sit-down family dinner? Maybe it’s just me, but growing up, the only time I really experienced it was watching TV. My Mom worked retail pharmacy, so normally I was pulling something out of the freezer to warm up for my kid brother and myself. And nowadays the only time we sit down for dinner is when we go out to a restaurant.
It’s not that we don’t...
My conversation started like this:
“Do you know where the recorder is?” she asked.
“The what?” I replied.
“The tape recorder we bought you!”
After a long pause, I replied:
“You mean the Panasonic cassette tape recorder you bought me in 1974?”
“Yes, that one! I want to record myself playing the piano.”
My brain...
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