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Does IT Security Matter?

The role of IT security in relation to IT and Business.

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  • 01 / 31 / 2008

Shamir's Third Law and other Tales from the Crypt

An overview of three attacks that bypass strong cryptography.

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  • 01 / 07 / 2009

Barring an Act of God

A mock interview with the devil on the state of the global soul market.

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  • 01 / 07 / 2009

The Core Components of the Entrust PKI v5

Detailed introduction to the architecture of the Entrust PKI v5

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  • 01 / 07 / 2009

A Data Centric Security Model

IBM proposal for a data centric approach to IT security.

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  • 01 / 13 / 2009

Entropy Bounds for Traffic Confirmation

A mathematical analysis of degrading anonymity in open systems.

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  • 01 / 14 / 2009

Parsing SOX into Pictures

A parsing of several sections from SOX into conceptual diagrams using subjects, objects and actions.

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  • 02 / 04 / 2009

ANSI approach to the financial impact of cyber risk

A short overview of a recent question-driven dialogue approach to cyber risks as proposed by ANSI.

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  • 02 / 04 / 2009

Some Black Swans in IT Security

A selected collection of surprising Black Swan events that have impacted IT Security over the last 50 years.

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  • 02 / 10 / 2009

A Short Primer on the Birthday Paradox

A short introduction to the birthday paradox with comments on a recent application in DNA matching.

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  • 02 / 10 / 2009

IT Security Awareness Tips

Here are the slides from my talk on tips for IT Security Awareness given at an ENISA conference in June 2009.

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  • 06 / 21 / 2009

A Hazard Model for Tornado occurrence in the US

A paper on Monte Carlo (MC) modeling of tornado occurrence in the US. The paper shows how to work through from data, to modeling via MC to produce results.

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  • 11 / 06 / 2009

Outline of a book on Passwords

Here is an outline of a book I started to write in 2003 on passwords. At the time I had a few months away from work and I decided to return to some basics in security, and I started with ...

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  • 11 / 09 / 2009

The Sub-time Crisis in Web 2.0

A short note on why we fear general information overload in web 2.0, however the system will live on.

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  • 11 / 17 / 2009

The Rise of Whitelisting

A short essay on the rise the idea of whitelisting to block detect and block malware.

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  • 11 / 20 / 2009
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