Path Security

I and effort to expand the fuctionality of this site Ive added a pair of video players. Hopefully this will allow me to record short demos and howto’s and make them available to the community. Please reveiw the two player types and let me know which you like better… Thank you ahead of time.

System Uptime… The 9’s… We all know it… We all love it… But can we ever really reach the holy grail…. Can we get dressed up for all 5 mythical 9’s? Let’s look at exactly what we are shooting for.

The world moves in crazy ways… I’ve been a busy boy and not posting here near as much as I would like… but I think I have caught up. I was to ambitious earlier with my once a day post idea… so my new goal is to write one quality article a week. Hopefully this can work towards my goal of teaching. Maybe do videos like Irongeek (LINK) or some cheat sheets like Packetlife. (LINK) I would also like to either start, or participate in a regular podcast. Maybe related to the weekly article, So many Ideas… so little time… I’m sorry this is such a stream of...

I have been reading a support article by Apple about the SD slot on the new MacBook Pro’s (LINK), and I think I have come up with an excellent way to use it. Most netbooks feature a SD card slot that can be booted from… why not load an OS onto the SD card that is tweaked for both the boot camp/fusion/parallels environment and the native netbook. Then you can take the netbook for IR and such… collect your data… and then easily come back to a more powerful rig for analysis. Also with the ease of swapping SD cards you can keep different responses separate and cataloged for...

The Path to Information Security sometimes seems like the road to hell. Security is not something that has a completely flat path. There are layers, not like the desirable parfait, but like an onion. Like the hell that Dante discribed at each layer lives an even worth threat, a worse sin committed. Threats and vulnerabilities do not seem to be categorized the same way. LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH… RED, YELLOW, GREEN… It doesn’t mean anything. Threats should be categorized and ranked based on the ease of exploit, the level of automation available, and the ease of remediation. And...