Collaborate Disseminate
This fun discussion on industry analyst craft reminded me of an unfinished post I had sitting in my draft folder … for a year. And now it is finished! When we create research and decide to include or mention vendors [uh-oh, careful with the topic… Continue reading Why We Value Inquiry Visibility Over … Well … Over Everything Else?
When you hear the word “SOC,” or the phrase “security operations center,” what image comes to mind? Do you think of analyst sitting at desks, all facing forward, towards giant screens? Why is this?The following image is from the outstanding movie Apoll… Continue reading Why Do SOCs Look Like This?
This has been brewing for years, and May 25 (aka “the GDPR Day”) is the perfect day for my epic privacy rant. So, WTF is privacy?! WTF is this obsession with privacy?! Look, I get secrecy or confidentiality. I do NOT want my health data in … Continue reading My GDPR-Inspired Rant: Privacy, WTF!!!
Émilie du Châtelet lived a wild, wild life. She was a brilliant polymath who made important contributions to the Enlightenment, including adding a mathematical statement of conservation of energy into her French translation of Newton’s Principia, debunking the phlogiston theory of fire, and suggesting that what we would call infrared light carried heat.
She had good company; she was Voltaire’s lover and companion for fifteen years, and she built a private research institution out of a château with him before falling in love with a younger poet. She was tutored in math by Maupertuis and corresponded with Bernoulli and …read more
via Jason Kottke, comes a Lebowski Cogitation with sterling credentials, in which, the Dude wades in with his take on machine learning (in reality {if you like that sort of thing} via a twitter message by Joscha Back, Ph.D.’s), utilizing the non-virtu… Continue reading Joscha Bach, Ph.D., ‘The Lebowski Theorem of Machine Superintelligence’
This post is inspired by a few painful discussions on artificial intelligence (AI) that I had both in public (on Twitter) and internally too. Let’s start with a joke: Q: How do you know that a security vendor REALLY uses AI in their product? A: I… Continue reading “Do They Have AI?” or That Rant on AI in Security
Are we people or a “megaorganism?” Continue reading Our Microbiomes Are Making Scientists Question What it Means to Be Human
Anyone involved in cybersecurity reporting needs a strong sense of numeracy, or mathematical literacy. I see two sorts of examples of innumeracy repeatedly in the media.The first involves the time value of money. Recently CNN claimed Amazon CEO Jeff Be… Continue reading Addressing Innumeracy in Reporting
Last week I Tweeted the following on the 8th anniversary of Google’s blog post about its compromise by Chinese threat actors:This intrusion made the term APT mainstream. I was the first to associate it with Aurora, in this post https://taosecurity… Continue reading Remembering When APT Became Public
My TaoSecurity News page says I taught 41 classes lasting a day or more, from 2002 to 2014. All of these involved some aspect of network security monitoring (NSM). Many times students would ask me when I would create the “advanced” version of the class… Continue reading On "Advanced" Network Security Monitoring