Saturday Security Maxim
Gold’s Law: If the shoe fits, it’s ugly. Compiled by Roger G. Johnston, Ph.D., CPP, Argonne National Laboratory.
Gold’s Law: If the shoe fits, it’s ugly. Compiled by Roger G. Johnston, Ph.D., CPP, Argonne National Laboratory.
Chad Woolf, writing at the AWS Security Blog, announces the availability of the CIS AWS Foundation Benchmark. Outstanding.
Lewis Lapham's eponymous essay targeting the Surveilling of America, 'Open to Inspection delineates the highly unfortunate state of affairs we now find ourselves in... Lapham is at his best in this work, and in typically erudite fashion, provides a strikingly lucid view on pervasive surveillance in the Home of the Free, and Land of the Brave. Quite likely, this weeks' most portentious read. Carry On, That Is All.
Glazer’s Law: If it says “one size fits all”, then it doesn’t fit anybody. Compiled by Roger G. Johnston, Ph.D., CPP, Argonne National Laboratory.
Horngren’s Law: The Real World is a special case. Comment: Horngren was right (MxH). Compiled by Roger G. Johnston, Ph.D., CPP, Argonne National Laboratory.
One of the better posts to the Tripwire blog came to my undeniably busy attention today. A must read for afficanados of leadership lessons in the security space (and any other space, for that matter), as it were. Enjoy.
Stewart’s Law: It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. Compiled by Roger G. Johnston, Ph.D., CPP, Argonne National Laboratory.
Bucy’s Law: Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable person. Compiled by Roger G. Johnston, Ph.D., CPP, Argonne National Laboratory.
via the inimitable Randall Munroe at XKCD.
The San Francisco Chapter of the Internet Society has slated February 18th, 2015 as the date for the first INET/IoT Conference.
"The Internet of Things (IoT) is an idea that has been around for a long time but is now starting to come to fruition. The idea is that anything and everything can have a sensor and can provide information to a remote collector somewhere else on The Internet. Our cars, our homes, farm animals, farmer’s fields, light bulbs, roads, just about anything can be fitted with a data collection device and the information used to make smarter decisions. The need to collect and analyze the huge amount of data collected is driving advances in Big Data computing. Such data collection also raises serious privacy and security concerns. More event information is on our website here, including speaker bios: http://www.sfbayisoc.org/iot-conference/ ." via the SF Bay ISOC Chapter
Likely, the single most important discovery in this generation. Simply Astonishing.
"Now for the first time, scientists in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration — with a prominent role played by researchers at MIT and Caltech — have directly observed the ripples of gravitational waves in an instrument on Earth. In so doing, they have again dramatically confirmed Einstein’s theory of general relativity and opened up a new way in which to view the universe. But there’s more: The scientists have also decoded the gravitational wave signal and determined its source. According to their calculations, the gravitational wave is the product of a collision between two massive black holes, 1.3 billion light years away — a remarkably extreme event that has not been observed until now." - by Jennifer Chu writing for the MIT News Office, published via the web at MIT News
Brien’s First Law: At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out. Compiled by Roger G. Johnston, Ph.D., CPP, Argonne National Laboratory.