Welcome to another edition of our Weekly Rewind – where we summarize all our posts from the last week. The top stories this week were 3) “HTTPS – Everywhere for Government”, 2) “The Look Ahead for Operational Infosec Jobs”, and…
Following up from our winners announcement I wanted to put out a quick post with all the ShmooCon 2015 Firetalks videos. Thanks to Adrian Crenshaw (@irongeek_adc) once again for getting these videos out so quickly (I think he released them…
My post-Shmoocon recovery is taking a bit longer than usual but it’s finally come to that sad time in the year where I have to write an after-Firetalks post announcing the winners. Also, be sure to check out our Firetalks…
Recently a writer for an online publication emailed me asking for a quote regarding the overall state of security. She wanted to hear about trends and know if there was a “go to” vendor. After a particularly rough week at…
Saw this cute post last week on how one infosec pro is explaining cybersecurity safety to his young girls with stories. What’s nice is that he relates it to what he does day to day at work too so you can…
Tools – information security is fecund* with them, but it never seems like we have what we need. So what’s a poor security analyst supposed to do? In a recent two-part article, I discussed the built-in security functionalities of many…
Welcome to another edition of our Weekly Rewind – where we summarize all our posts from the last week. The top stories this week were 3) “Cleartext is Dead”, 2) “Building a Successful Infosec Careet”, and 1) “The Logic of…
This article from DanielMiessler.com is one of the most well put together set of suggestions for handling your infosec career I’ve seen in a while. I really appreciate the advice of forgoing all the new fangled “cyber” degrees and instead…
I came across this article comparing federal IT spending to “fixie” bikes. The author suggests you can accomplish about 85% of what is really needed for around 10% of a project’s cost. Of course Pareto’s Principle comes to mind here…
Not a pure infosec article but here is an study with some sage advice for your long-term career prospects – don’t stay in any one position for more than two years. The research covered by Forbes concluded that switching jobs…