[Update: Steve Bellovin has a blog post] One of the major pillars of science is the collection of data to disprove arguments. That data gathering can include experiments, observations, and, in engineering, investigations into failures. One of the issues that makes security hard is that we have little data about large scale systems. (I believe…
Read More Learning from Near MissesAs I simmer with anger over how TSA is subpoening bloggers, it occurs to me that the state of airline security is very similar to that of information security in some important ways: Failures are rare Partial failures are generally secret Actual failures are analyzed in secret Procedures are secret Procedures seem bizarre and arbitrary…
Read More The New School of Air Travel Security?Is over on the New School blog. “An open Letter to the New Cyber-Security Czar.”
Read More My Open Letter to the New Cyber-Security CzarI had fun recording Beyond the Perimiter Episode 48 and 49 with Amrit. I think Amrit asked some of the broadest, most complex questions I’ve been asked, and it was hard to keep the episodes short. Go have a listen!
Read More Podcasts with AmritOver at Haft of the Spear, Michael Tanji asks: You are the nation’s new cyber czar/shogun/guru. You know you can’t _force _anyone to do jack, therefore you spend your time/energy trying to accomplish what three things via influence, persuasion, shame and force of will? I think it’s a fascinating question, and posted my answer over…
Read More What should the new czar do? (Tanji's Security Survey)According to ZDNet, “Coleman donor data breached in January, but donors alerted by Wikileaks not campaign:” Donors to Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman’s campaign got a rude awakening this week, thanks to an email from Wikileaks. Coleman’s campaign was keeping donor information in an unprotected database that contained names, addresses, emails, credit card numbers and those…
Read More "No Evidence" and Breach NoticeSo last week I asked what people wanted to get out of RSA, and the answer was mostly silence and snark. There are some good summaries of RSA at securosis and Stiennon’s network world blog, so I won’t try to do that. But I did I promise to tell you what I wanted to get…
Read More Security is about outcomes: RSA editionI’m really excited to announce NewSchoolSecurity.com, the blog inspired by the book. I’ll be blogging with Alex Hutton, Chandler Howell and Brooke Paul. And who knows, maybe we’ll even get a post or two from Andrew? Emergent Chaos will continue. My posts here will be a little more on the privacy, liberty and economics end…
Read More The New School BlogFor the past few months, I’ve been working with the folks at the RSA Conference to put together a track entitled “Research Revealed.” Our idea is that security needs to advance by getting empirical, and bringing in a wide variety of analytic techniques. (Regular readers understand that Andrew Stewart and I brought these ideas together…
Read More Research Revealed Track at RSA