A few years ago I had to stop competing. The constant need to win – whatever that even meant – was making me unhappy. Even when things were going well, I found some reason to feel like a loser. So I got off the hamster wheel and put myself in positions where I wasn’t really competing against others. I am always trying to improve, but I stopped doing that in terms of others. Set a goal. Work toward it. Adjust as needed.
Writing is an oddly physical act.
Technically you are just sitting there, clanking away on the keyboard, while your bottom loses circulation and gets sore. (Maybe I need a new chair.) But keeping your brain running at the right tempo for effective writing involves a complicated dance of nutrition, sleep, physical movement, and environmental management.
Our last post reviewed key tools to conduct security tests in the development process, and before that we discussed big picture process adjustments to accommodate security testing, but didn’t fully how to integrate. Agile itself is in the middle of a major disruptive evolution, transforming into a new variant called DevOps, bringing significant long-term implications which are beneficial to security. The evolution of development security and Agile are closely tied together, so we can start by…
Mike, Adrian, and I start off a little rough around the edges, but eventually get to the point. Travel is taking its toll so we won’t be able to keep our usual weekly schedule, but we will stay as close as possible – until I run off to Amsterdam for a week, for Black Hat Europe. We catch up on the inane for a few minutes, before jumping into a discussion of the bash vulnerability and disclosure debacle. We agree it is often valuable to analyze an event after the initial shock waves (See what I…
I was going to write more this week on Apple Pay security and it use of tokenization because more details have come out, but I won’t bother because TUAW beat me to it. They did a good job explaining how tokenization is used by Apple, and went on to discuss one of the facets I have been trying to get details on: the CCV/CVV code. Apple is dynamically generating a new CVV for each transaction, which can be verified by the payment processor to ensure it is coming from an authorized device. In a…
I had a bit of a surreal experience earlier this week. Rich probably alluded to it a few times on the Twitter, but we are all as busy as we have been since we started the new Securosis 5 years ago. I m traveling like a mad man and it’s getting hard to squeeze in important meetings with long-time clients. But you do what you need to – we built this business on relationships, and that means we pay attention to the ones that matter.
The cloud and mobility are disrupting how IT builds and delivers value to the organization. Whether you are moving computing workloads to the cloud with your data now on a network outside your corporate perimeter, or an increasingly large portion of your employees are now accessing data outside of your corporate network, you no longer have control over networks or devices. Security teams need to adapt their security models to protect data. For details see our recent Future of Security research.…
I have a great job. The combination of extended coverage areas, coupled with business to tech, and everything in between, makes it so. In this week alone I have talked to customers about Agile development and process adjustments, technical details of how to deploy masking for Hadoop, how to choose between two SIEM vendors, and talked to a couple vendors about Oracle and SAP security. The breadth of stuff I am exposed to is awesome. People often ask me if I want to go back to being a CTO or…
Update:Amazon published some details. Less than 10% of AWS systems are affected, and the vulnerability will be disclosed October 1st. As suspected this is about Xen – not the bash vulnerability.
Updated: I made a mistake and gave Akamai credit. Stephane doesn’t work for them – I misread the post. Fixed.