In November of 2017 my former agency leadership decided to go with a career intelligence community professional to lead a cyber program rather than the cyber guy (me!). This isn’t necessarily a bad choice but it put me in a…
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Prognostications for 2018
Trying to be more specific than my 2013 and 2014 attempts at guessing the future. Of course, my favorite “came true guesss” is back in 2006 when I wrote about Web 1.0 v. Web 3.0, but I also wrote all…
I had an excellent interview
Yes, I am on the market. You should really hire me. This though is about an excellent interview. It is strange to think about, but when you are talking to somebody at my level. Every interaction of the company is…
The hunt for a boat… To live on…
He, is a fat bald out of shape former academic with a penchant for classic plastic and specifically Taiwanese teak rejects. She, a high-speed low drag marathon runner who likes red wine on clean smooth decks with an Ikea interior.…
Cyber executive leadership: The gold rush for efficiency and dam risk
Working across organizational boundaries I hear the same refrain often enough to want to discuss it. From the intelligence analyst working an intrusion set I hear, “Why don’t they just patch their systems and we’d be fine.” On the other…
Why you are going to pay me a million dollars a year to be your CISO
For me a job is usually never about the compensation. I’m a challenge seeking type personality. However, if I said why you’re going to pay me X it isn’t likely you’d read the essay. This is my sales pitch why…
Today’s Attack IPs
For those that are interested. The following list of IP addresses were attempting to brute force log in against the Selil blog. If you own the addresses below. Before you contact me. Make sure your stuff is clean. Anybody out…
[Honeypot Alert] Active Probes for WordPress revslider_show_image Plugin Local File Inclusion Flaw – SpiderLabs Anterior
[Honeypot Alert] Active Probes for WordPress revslider_show_image Plugin Local File Inclusion Flaw – SpiderLabs Anterior. Why there it is! Oh and go to the bottom for a real special logged event. [403 GET / HEAD Request: September 3, 2014 –…
Into the city: BsidesLV and BlackHat
I was a whirling dervish astride 1200 cubic centimeters of motorcycle. A Tasmanian devil straight out of the old school Bugs Bunny cartoon. Hi visibility yellow jacket, unremarkable BMW logo and a disdain for being anywhere to long. I fled…
Kansas regents pass social media policy in wake of Guth tweet via LJWorld.com
It looks like the Kansas board of regents really doesn’t understand academic freedom and freedom of speech Impairs discipline by superiors or harmony among co-workers, has a detrimental impact on close working relationships, impedes the performance of the speaker’s official…
Manager, Operator, Innovator, Creator
I have the discussion all the time with my students. A student will come to me and say they heard “X” student was making a bazillion dollars at Google and they figure they are going to do the same thing.…
Don’t Quit Your Day Job (Yet) from Haft of the Spear
Don’t Quit Your Day Job (Yet) | Haft of the Spear. Is a great post that people considering leaving government service should read. This covers the basics of going into business and some of the pitfalls. To what Michael said…
Purdue and the College of Technology Polytechnic Initiative
I’ve been asked quite a few times what I think about the big plan of the university to transition the College of Technology at Purdue to a Polytechnic Institute. The questions are what happens to the faculty, what happens to…
This week in cyber conflict: September 12th – September 16th
The early part of the week was a little slower than normal with not a lot of traffic being generated. News reports slowed substantially until more information started to be released on the DigiNotar hack details became more obvious. As…
This week in cyber conflict: September 5th – September 9th
Relatively little going on this week other than stories being cleaned up from previous weeks. No hacker conferences going on, and no major conflagrations to report. There are some squeaky articles about planned hacktivism or “major” attacks through cyber means…