September 3, 2010

Career Advice for Security Geeks, Part 2

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by Bill Pennington Maybe you didn’t see my last post in time to save your job, and you are now out on the street looking for one. I have been hiring people for close to 10 years now, and hiring today is a lot different than it was 10 years ago. These tips are based [...]

Career Advice for Security Geeks, Part 1

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by Bill Pennington Many of my contacts in the security sphere have recently gone through the dreaded layoff. Many of them have come to me for advice on finding a new position, and many of them ask me why they were in the position to be laid-off in the first place. I have had to [...]

A Tale of Two Vendors or Security Sells

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by Bill Pennington WhiteHat Security recently went in search of a new customer service application and decided we wanted to go with a SAAS based service. Given our line of work we included a security review of the application as one of the steps in our due diligence process. What happened is a text book [...]

The Balkanization of Web Application Security

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By Bill Pennington Recently on the Web Security mailing list a bit of a holy war broke out over web application firewalls. For those new to the web security space this might be the first time they have seen this occur but as someone who has been in this space for over nine years now [...]