Blog posts

1. SANS GIAC GCFA

   I am a “Certified IT Professional”, as of this morning. Just like you hear about on the radio advertisements! Yikes. I’m on on the list and they published my 83% score on the test to become a SANS…

2. Hans Reiser: Guilty

   The Wired article concludes… From his seat at the defense table, Reiser seemed to offer supporting evidence for that so-called “geek defense” in the form of his own actions, frequently quarreling…

3. Logging incident handler activity on the console

   During incident handling, time is precious. I try to make myself take notes and communicate about the incident over logged channels like e-mail and IM - to the point that I think some team members…

4. Business Meetings

   Frustrated by distracted workers so plugged in that they tune out in the middle of business meetings, a growing number of companies are going “topless,” as in no laptops allowed. Also banned from…

5. Shmoocon 2008

   I’m just returning to work after Shmoocon 2008 – I took Monday off to recover and catch up on sleep. It seemed like the presenters this year were asked for only overview level subject matter. The…