Adrian is off at the altar of Buffett (the other one – not the one I wear a coconut bra for), so Mike and I delved into SecDevOps, triggered by a post from Andrew Storms over at DevOps.com. This is where the world is heading folks – you might as well prepare yourselves now.
Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) tweeted “Next month’s Wired: ‘We painstakingly reconstructed Steve Jobs’ wardrobe so you can wear it, too.’” A catty response to Wired Magazine’s recent reconstruction of Steve Jobs’ stereo system. Unlike Mr. Fleishman I was highly interested in this article, and found it relevant to current events. For people who love music and quality home music reproduction, iTunes’ disgustingly low-resolution MP3 files seem at odds with Jobs’ personal interest in HiFi. The…
After a mostly miserable winter, at least in terms of the weather, spring is here. And some days it feels like summer. This past weekend was awesome. A little hot, but nice. Sun shining. Watching the kids play LAX. Dinner/drinks to celebrate two of my best friends completing a trail marathon. Yes, they ran 26.2 miles through the woods. I didn’t say my friends were overly bright, did I?
Windows XP’s recent end of life has garnered a bit of industry recognition. Mostly from vendors pushing controls to lock down the ancient operating system. Folks who are stuck on XP are, well, stuck. And now there is a new exploit in the wild that takes advantage of IE, so what are XP users to do?
After missing a week, Rich, Mike, and Adrian return to talk about birthdays, the annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, and child-induced alcohol consumption.
I started this series on recommendations for securing NoSQL clusters a couple weeks ago, so sorry for the delay posting the rest of the series. I had some difficulty contacting the people I spoke with during the first part of this “big data” research project, and some vendors were been slow to respond with current product capabilities. As I hoped, launching this series “shook the tree of knowledge”, and several people responded to my inquiries. It has taken a little more time than I thought to…
What’s a couple hundred gigabits per second of traffic between friends, right? Because that is the magnitude of recent volumetric denial of service attacks, which means regardless of who you are, you need a plan to deal with that kind of onslaught.
Rich here,
Travel is about as close as any of us get to a time machine.
Leave home, step into an airport, and you step out of your life, even in our hyper-connected world. Sure, you are still on email, still talking to your family over the phone or Skype/FaceTime, and still surrounded by screens spewing endless worthless updates on the tragedy du jour, but fundamentally you are cut off. From your normal life, daily patterns, and state of mind. It isn’t ‘bad’, but it is unavoidable – no matter…
I can certainly empathize with folks who suffer from burnout, in any occupation. It is miserable and clinical and not to be minimized or swept under the rug. But if this whole mindfulness approach has shown me anything, it is that we control how we respond to situations. So yes, security is a tough job. Yes, you probably can’t win. Yes, your senior management has no idea what you do and can’t understand your value.
It is interesting to see the concept of mindfulness enter the vernacular. For folks who have read the Incite for a while, I haven’t been shy about my meditation practice. And next week I will present on Neuro-Hacking with Jen Minella at her company’s annual conference. I never really shied away from this discussion, but I didn’t go out of my way to discuss it either.