Author Archives: Jeannie Warner

We had an amazing turnout and response to our webinar Growing the Ranks of Women in AppSec. I played host and moderator, and really want to thank my colleagues for their enthusiastic participation and input. And I have even bigger thanks to all of the people who dialed in, sent us questions, and offered to […]

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A colleague of mine sent me this article from The Atlantic, called Why is Silicon Valley so Awful to Women. It wasn’t a female colleague either; it was from one of our male engineers over in the Threat Research Center. The accompanying note touched me deeply. He said he had heard me talking about our […]

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Look, I love Facebook. Not enough to use my real name on my account there, mind you, because I don’t trust the idea of sharing my real name and my real birthday on the same social media site. That opens you up for information mining and possible identity theft. But I do love social media […]

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Time was, all you needed was anti-virus software to be secure in your hard-wired network. Then you needed a firewall. Then maybe a network scan to find your un-patched servers and services, and an intrusion detection device to monitor network traffic, and host-based detection. Then came anomaly detection, data loss prevention, encryption tools. But then […]

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I’ll be the first to admit I’ve enjoyed a lot of the memes that have flown around the Internet. I cannot help but appreciate grumpy cat, especially the one that read something like, “If you love kitties…” “No.” “Share this…” “No.” I’m here to give you reason to properly fear certain kinds of memes and […]

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