Collaborate Disseminate
I wrote this on 7 December 2018 but never published it until today. The following are the “key network questions” which “would answer many key questions about [a] network, without having to access a third party log repository. This data is derive… Continue reading Key Network Questions
Cybersecurity is a social and policy problem, not a scientific or technical problem. Cybersecurity is also a wicked problem. In a landmark 1973 article, Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning, urban planners Horst W. J. Rittel and Melvin M. Webber de… Continue reading Cybersecurity Is a Social, Policy, and Wicked Problem
I want to make a note of the numbers of words and pages in my core security writings.The Tao of Network Security Monitoring / 236k words / 833 pagesExtrusion Detection / 113k words / 417 pagesThe Practice of Network Security Monitoring / 97k words / 38… Continue reading Core Writing Word and Page Counts
Happy 20th birthday TaoSecurity Blog, born on 8 January 2003. Thank you BloggerBlogger (now part of Google) has continuously hosted this blog for 20 years, for free. I’d like to thank Blogger and Google for providing this platform for two decades…. Continue reading Happy 20th Birthday TaoSecurity Blog
I’m running a #BlackFriday #CyberMonday sale on my four newest #Kindle format books. Volumes 1-4 of The Best of TaoSecurity Blog will be half off starting 9 pm PT Tuesday 22 Nov and ending 9 pm PT Tueday 29 Nov. They are here. There also ap… Continue reading Best of TaoSecurity Blog Kindle Edition Sale
I am now using Mastodon as a replacement for the blue bird. This is my attempt to verify myself via my blog. I am no longer posting to my old bird account.Copyright 2003-2020 Richard Bejtlich and TaoSecurity (taosecurity.blogspot.com and www…. Continue reading TaoSecurity on Mastodon
Over the weekend I organized some old computing equipment. I found this beauty in one of my boxes. It’s a Netgear EN104TP hub. I’ve mentioned this device before, in this blog and my books. This sort of device was the last of the true hubs. In an … Continue reading The Humble Hub
This is a quick note to point blog readers to my Zeek in Action YouTube video series for the Zeek network security monitoring project. Each video addresses a topic that I think might be of interest to people trying to understand their network usin… Continue reading Zeek in Action Videos
I’ve completed the TaoSecurity Blog book series.The new book is The Best of TaoSecurity Blog, Volume 4: Beyond the Blog with Articles, Testimony, and Scholarship. It’s available now for Kindle, and I’m working on the print edition. … Continue reading New Book! The Best of TaoSecurity Blog, Volume 4
What are the origins of the names TaoSecurity and the unit formerly known as TAO? IntroductionI’ve been reading Nicole Perlroth’s new book This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends. Her discussion of the group formerly known as Tailored Access… Continue reading The Origins of the Names TaoSecurity and the Unit Formerly Known as TAO