I recently posted the below on the SANS Internet Storm Center. Happy weekend, everyone. Often times there is extra margin on the weekends to learn something new. This weekend I encourage you to consider learning more about the Spoofer project, as recommended by a fellow ISC Handler. With the recent announcement that the Spoofer project is funded and has clients for multiple operating […]
Leave Things Better Than When You Found Them
I recently posted the below on the SANS Internet Storm Center site. Whether at the end of a project or at the end of your time with an organization, there are some low impact and high reward actions you can take to ensure that you leave things better than when you found them. Although it is […]
Get Wisdom as Cheaply as You Can
Happy New Year! I recently posted the below on the SANS Internet Storm Center site. A long time ago I was given advice from a non-security professional that is among the best and most influential I have received in my security career – “Get wisdom as cheaply as you can”. I was encouraged to learn from the […]
Repost – Stop Admiring The Problem. Start Addressing The Problem.
I recently published the below post on the SANS Internet Storm Center site.How much energy do you spending admiring your problems? It does not matter what the problem is – asset inventory, vulnerability management or security awareness. You do have problems. What are you doing to make your current problem less of a problem? Set your problems aside […]
Do you remember your “first love”?
I recently published the below post on the SANS Internet Storm Center site. I will never forget the name of my first server – Rachel. I was very proud to be the person whose job it was to defend Rachel from all types of disruption. To this day I still remember each IP address, user account, […]
Community SANS in Pittsburgh
Consider joining me for the next Community SANS event in Pittsburgh, PAon June 16 – June 21, 2014. I will be teaching the SANS Security Essentials Bootcamp Style course. This popular course is appropriate both forpeople new to security as well as those who have been in security foryears. This was the first SANS course I attended […]