A couple years ago in a conference room with a window looking out on the Arizona desert, two of us sat down with a customer to talk about their network. I asked to see their best network diagram, which he left to retrieve. When he returned, he rolled it out to its full length on […]
Two years ago I was standing in front of a group of security geeks in Santa Barbara for BSides LA talking about the sophisticated tools that most network engineers use — like “ping” and “traceroute” and even Excel — and about how the broad range of tools available typically didn’t get used in a primordial […]
On Wednesday, August 20th, UPS announced that a breach may have compromised customer data during up to 105,000 transactions between January and August. While UPS is to be commended for coming forward so quickly, this breach underscores the truth that organizations with highly sophisticated and advanced capabilities in information technology aren’t inoculated against breaches. It […]