As I get ready to go to South Africa, I’m thinking a lot about presentations. I’ll be delivering a keynote and a technical/managerial talk at the ITWeb Security Summit. The keynote will be on ‘The Crisis in Information Security’ and the technical talk on Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle. As I think about how to deliver…
Read More How to PresentI got the opportunity a couple days ago to get a demo of Wolfram Alpha from Stephen Wolfram himself. It’s an impressive thing, and I can sympathize a bit with them on the overblown publicity. Wolfram said that they didn’t expect the press reaction, which I both empathize with and cast a raised eyebrow at.…
Read More My Wolfram Alpha DemoIn re-reading my blog post on twittering during a conference I realized it sounded a lot more negative than I’d meant it to. I’d like to talk about why I see it as a tremendous positive, and will be doing it again. First, it engages the audience. There’s a motive to pay close attention and…
Read More All atwitterA few weeks back, Pistachio twittered about How to Present While People are Twittering. I picked it up, and with the help of Quine, was getting comments from Twitter as I spoke. It was a fun experiment, and it’s pretty cool to be able to go back and look at the back channel. [Update: I…
Read More Tweet, tweetBlogging about your own presentations is tough. Some people post their slides, but slides are not essays, and often make little sense without the speaker. I really like what Chris Hoff did in his blog post, “Security and Disruptive Innovation Part I: The Setup.” I did something similar after “Security Breaches Are Good for You:…
Read More How to Blog a TalkAt the FIRST conference in Seville, Spain, I delivered a presentation about “Data on Data Breaches” that Adam and I put together. The slides, with the notes I made to act as “cue cards” for me, are available as a large PDF file on a slow web server. The main points I tried to make…
Read More Data on Data BreachesStuart E. Schechter, Rachna Dhamija, Andy Ozment, and Ian Fischer have written a paper which examines the behavior of persons doing on-line banking under various experimentally-manipulated conditions. The paper is getting some attention, for example in the New York Times and at Slashdot. What Schechter, et. al. find is that despite increasingly alarming indicators that…
Read More Why Johnny Can’t Bank SafelyThere’s another good article on Juice Analytics, “Godin, Tufte, and Types of Infographics:” (hey, guys, where are the author names? Author names only show in RSS, not the web page?) Tufte frustrates on a number of levels. He is enormously influential in business. Businesses send people to his seminars and they come back energized with…
Read More More on Godin and TufteJuice Analytics comments on “Godin’s take on Tufte:” (Godin) I think this is one of the worst graphs ever made. He’s very happy because it shows five different pieces of information on three axes and if you study it for 15 minutes it really is worth 1000 words. I don’t think that is what graphs…
Read More Tufte, Godin, Juice AnalyticsLet’s see..we’ve got shadows, random colors, and the colors are graduated, and so is the background. Displaying 13 digits takes 109,341 bytes (in the original), for a remarkable data density of .0001 digit per byte. Anti-phishing working group? You can, I hope, do better. Via the F-Secure blog, who don’t have per-post links.
Read More One Graph, Zero Credibility