On building fire extinguishers and fighting fires…
The last ten years of my professional life have been spent working for some amazing companies; architecting and building security solutions that are deployed across the globe in the most…
The 3 Immutable Rules Of Presentations…
There are three immutable rules that pertain to presentations*, even more so important if one’s presentation is in front of several thousand people, live: Never present with kids Never present…
Looking Forward to Catching Up At RSA…
If Black Hat and DEF CON are Security Summer Camp, then RSA is the Spring Dance. I think this is my 16th RSA Conference. I believe I am now eligible…
Attribution is the new black…what’s in a name, anyway?
Attribution is hard. It’s as much art as it is science. It’s also very misunderstood. So, as part of my public service initiative, I created and then unintentionally crowdsourced the…
The Active Response Continuum & The Right To Cyber Self Defense…
At the 2015 Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit, I kicked off the event with a keynote titled: “Active Defense and the A.R.T. of W.A.R.” The A.R.T. of W.A.R. stands for “Active…
Incomplete Thought: The Time Is Now For OCP-like White Box Security Appliances
Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen some transformative innovation erupt in networking. In no particular order OR completeness: CLOS architectures and protocols are evolving the debate over Ethernet…
J-Law Nudie Pics, Jeremiah, Privacy and Dropbox – An Epic FAIL of Mutual Distraction
From the “It can happen to anyone” department… A couple of days ago, prior to the announcement that hundreds of celebrities’ nudie shots were liberated from their owners and posted…
How To Be a Cloud Mogul(l) – Our 2014 RSA “Dueling Banjos/Cloud/DevOps” Talk
Rich Mogull (Securosis) and I have given a standing set of talks over the last 5-6 years at the RSA Security Conference that focus on innovation, disruption and ultimately making…
On the Topic Of ‘Stopping’ DDoS.
The insufferable fatigue of imprecise language with respect to “stopping” DDoS attacks caused me to tweet something that my pal @CSOAndy suggested was just as pedantic and wrong as that…
The Easiest $20 I ever saved…
During the 2014 RSA Conference, I participated on a repeating panel with Bret Hartman, CTO of Cisco’s Security Business Unit and Martin Brown from BT. The first day was moderated…