The asserted revelations of the national spy apparatus has created an interesting set of conundrums for business and individuals. Putting away the trivialities of those who say “If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about.” There…
Motorcycle Monday
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2013 Adobe Data Breach (on going analysis)
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Motorcycle Monday
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Passion to teach: The false choice of research over teaching
There is the sense in the academic legions of research professors that teaching is evidence of failure for those who cannot do research. This is no different than the adage that those who can do, those who can’t teach. In…
Research Note: Defining attacker knowledge, skill, and ability
Introduction There exists an area of undiscovered value within the intersection of information assurance and security, standardized education, cognitive methods, and assessments of cognitive methods. At this intersection are the basics of profiling and evaluating the knowledge, skills and abilities…
Careers in government: Challenges in recruiting
I teach a discipline almost completely on topics of interest only to government entities. By far and in most cases the only people interested in investing towards professional incident response requiring forensics level skills is the government. Whether a local…
Concept mapping: Cloud forensics
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National Geographic Channel Docudrama Blackout: Comments on veracity and thought on issues
I’m getting lots of media interview requests and anybody who knows me knows I don’t like cameras. So, I thought I’d put up some comments on the idea of a multi-week power outage across the United States and even across…
Research Note: After Carshark and into ICS, SCADA, and embedded systems
After DefCon this year and CarShark last year I don’t know if there is any interest in exploring this aspect of cyberspace further, but thought we might look at a few things. The reason you should care is though there…
Crude Faux: An analysis of cyber conflict within the oil and gas industries
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Where will the NSA be in 5 to 10 years?
I’ve been thinking about how the structure of the intelligence community and specifically technical collection activities are understood. The departure of General Alexander and the current budget fights are policy fulcrum points that can be used for change. I have…
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.…