I’ve expressed my honest amazement at the power of having a community of passionate professionals coming together to support one another. Today there was a thread that just made sense (as it demonstrated the power and value in our efforts)… The thread actually got started yesterday, and it is titled security is broken? I contributed [...]
It’s time to reboot the security industry
April 4, 2007 By
It seems that this year has been dominated by negativity: we have focused on month’s of bugs, slammed colleagues and users and even tried to prove through science that people don’t understand risk. In fact, many in our industry seem quick to point out that everything is wrong, nothing works…. and that’s not very comforting. [...]
How did you get your start?
April 3, 2007 By
This simple question is actually quite revealing, and yet it’s something that few of us are prepared to answer quickly when someone asks us. Recently, Andrew Hay asked this question in the Security Catalyst Community. Here is the intro he posted: I started a 3 part series on my blog which explain how I got [...]
The Catalyst Community Forum Roundup; Connections Abound
March 29, 2007 By
It is important that the Catayst Community be a comfortable and supportive environment that allows everyone an opportunity to ask questions, answer questions and have their voice added to the conversation. I was delighted yesterday when a member of our community approached me to tell me that it is working! He was able to get [...]
Importance of Community
March 26, 2007 By
Are you “connected”? Do you have a set of people you can call on when you have a problem or a question? “Who ya gonna call?” Ghostbuster’s won’t help you, but a community of like-minded professionals will. I’m talking about others who have been there and done that and who are ready and willing to [...]
Tell us what you think about messaging security
March 25, 2007 By
Knowledge about what others are doing – a professional yardstick, if you will – is generally helpful to our efforts as security professionals. As the catalyst community continues to take shape, I have watched and participated in some excellent discussions. For me, that generally leads, then, to some sort of idea. As a result, I [...]
Advancing the Future of Security; a mind-map experiment – conclusion, next steps
March 25, 2007 By
This morning we closed the collaborative mind mapping project to map out the Advancement of How We Practice Security. I am excited to share with you that we had contributions and inputs from passionate professionals around the world contribute. As a result, this is a solid start on where, as a profession, we need to [...]
Security Catalyst Community Forum Roundup for March 16 2007
March 16, 2007 By
Happy Friday! It has been a pretty exciting and hectic week for me this week – including a series of meetings determining how to advance a vision and pathway of improving how to improve our practice and ability to protect information. I find the more people I meet with, the more excited I get! With [...]
Security Catalyst Community Forum Roundup – March 8 2007
March 8, 2007 By
Wow. This week we breezed past 1000 quality posts and are about to top 200 passionate professionals coming together to share ideas and help each other. Our community, designed to serve the needs of anyone practicing or interested in security, now welcomes more than 30 security bloggers and podcasters – and is poised for continued [...]
Mind mapping the future of how we practice security – starting arrangements (we’re off to an amazing start!)
March 6, 2007 By
Again with a nod to Grigor for his insight and guidance, I wanted to kick off our mapping project with the following guidance to help structure our approach 1. Please add whatever you think is important to the map. Add new branches, add sub branches or whatever you think would be useful. In my own [...]
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