Colorado Route for the How the West Was Won Rally.
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…
Motorcycle Monday
How the West Was Won! That is showing 100f. From a low of 38 to high of 105 all within a few hours of each other..
Motorcycle Monday
Why I ride
I ride motorcycles to live. I am neither afraid nor endeared to the rest of the world. I am me and when I ride my motorcycle I get to be a little bit more me. Sometimes I am rude and…
Trans-convergence Thought Exercise
There are a few thoughts and activities going on in my life right now that are starting to pull together into a single thread. The first was Apple’s most recent keynote where they talked about iHealth as a way to…
Trans-convergence
Where is the tech world headed? Where and what will be the enterprise of the future? We are in a post-converged world swimming in a sea of devices and moving into the world of trans-convergence. Where trans refers to changing…
Updated: 1999-2013 Iron Butt Rally Stats
This represents a view into the 1999 through 2013 Iron Butt Rally statistics as best I can aggregate them. There are over 800 observations over 8 rallies. This reflects the data available, and a long time follower of the rally…
My work review 2013-2014
I got my personnel review (June 1, 2013 to June 1, 2014 ) yesterday from my former department chair. The comment about teaching load and seeking funding along with mentorship really stung. I think I have done pretty good. The…
Ugly dog or cute dog?
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Research note: Strategic compression and the future of information security
In the world of strategic theory there are many pages and gallons of ink exhorting the relative merits of various historical figures thinking. I don’t discount the relative merits of Clausewitz or Sun Tzu but in each entities time their…
Threat actor zero (TA0)
When Mandiant came out with the APT1 report the world was shattered into two camps. In the first camp was a group of people who were happy to have more information on the bad guys entering their networks and doing…
Updating and working on the BMW K1600GTL
BMW has three basic lines of motorcycles. BMW Boxer motors with two opposed cylinder, inline engines in either 4 or 6 cylinder, and a variety of two and one cylinder bikes. What follows is documenting the tear down and upgrade…
Threat intelligence “know thyself”
I worry about the over use of threat intelligence. The idea of intelligence came to the information technology space in the early 1990s and many from the intelligence world and the information technology community scoffed at the idea. In the…
3 Question interviewers might ask
This is in answer to the three questions that reveal everything from Inc.com by Jeff Haden (@Jeff_Haden). I thought it was interesting as a professor for my students to see what I had done, but more importantly as a $consultant…