Hopefully you were able to join me for a terrific two weeks of webcasts!! In 8 sessions we covered every layer of the security model known as "defense in depth". For those of you who missed out on the great fun we had, here's a way to go and check out...

Well....I received an absolutely unexpected and pleasure of an email from one of the excellent speakers over at the The Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies about my blog posts! I'm not sure they were reading or simply scanning for references...

'nuff said....life is good. (Yes, the first 4 minutes of the game I was ready to jump off the roof, but I tried to exhibit a bit of patience and it paid off.) This morning as I was checking the local morning news online...I saw this comment on a blog...

Got too much time on your hands? Feel a need to monitor the entire world for security incidents? Then check this out. I just heard about this and wanted to get it posted, so you guys can see what's not making the evening news. It's a pretty cool website...

A good buddy of mine and fellow Texan runs this little 'ol blog, which is one of the Top 5 blogs hosted on TechNet. His name is Keith Combs and he, like his blahg , is a pretty amazing technical guru. When it came time to research the laptop I'm carrying...

I have returned! As many of you are aware, I travel extensively for my job and I was literally on the road for almost 10 straight weeks the latter part of 2007. Los Angeles. New York. Buenos Aires (x2). London. Redmond. Mexico City. Washington D.C. Toronto...

This is a pretty interesting podcast that I had the privilege to conduct a few weeks ago. I had the chance to go see Microsoft's Security Operations Center (SOC) and talk to Johnny Walker, CPP (Certified Protection Professional), the guy who leads the...

" Hey IT Guy , c heck out my cool phone! I can use it as a modem for my laptop! " Ever heard that from one of those end users? I'm sure you have. Sounds much better than " Check out my cool wireless bridge I've been using to exfil sensitive data out of...

Okay.....here's your daily Dilbert for the security crowd. Definitely one to print out and hang on the bulletin board. I love Mordac . You'll love what's he done for Dilbert in the past. (I really like his implementation of strong passwords).

Well, if you've been following along...we talked about who the insiders are and the metrics behind economic espionage. We've discussed why they do it and how they get the data. But I know this probably hasn't been very technical for most of you. Today...

If you've made the jump to Office 2007, which I know many of you have, you'll want to grab a copy of the free Office 2007 Security Guide . It provides prescriptive Group Policy setting and security configuration recommendations to help strengthen the...

Okay, I know I'm late to the game on this, but I think it's absolutely terrific. I'm a big Star Wars fan so I'm glad I found it. It's a video series about Darth Vader's "less charismatic brother" who works at a grocery store. I love that this was created...

If you've been with us the past few months, we've been talking about the who and why of economic espionage/insider threat. Starting today....we're about to make all you wannabe James Bonds out there understand the how. A New Degree in Engineering Still...

As many of you know, I'm a fanatical NFL Green Bay Packers fan. My friend, former teammate, and Ohio native, Matt Hester , has spent the time building a relationship with the IT Department of his favorite team, the Cleveland Browns. Matt finally sat down...

I've done a lot of work in the past few weeks trying to get you to truly understand the person we've dubbed "The Insider". We've discussed who they are, and why they do what they do. Today I'm going to be looking at exactly what it is these insiders are...

Okay, this is a perfect example of the bad guys thinking of ways to get your passwords. ( Kudos to the guys from TrendMicro for catching this one, as well as the hilarious title .) In case you haven't heard, apparently there is a new virus out there that...

I've chatted with our internal MSIT data leakage expert, Olav Opedal in private as I've put together my session on Insider Threat. Recently I had the opportunity to interview Olav a few weeks ago for a public TechNet Radio session, titled " How Microsoft...

After traveling the past 4 weeks non-stop, with barely enough time to figure out what time zone I'm actually in....I'm back with another installment of Insider Threat. Today we'll discuss the motivators for why this is happening. Let's get started! "Why...

Today I'm going to discuss exactly who the these "insiders" are. As I mentioned earlier, the book " Insider Threat: Protecting the Enterprise from Sabotage, Spying and Theft " by Eric Cole and Sandra Ring has some terrific analysis and classification...

Friday is Teacher Appreciation Day . I'm not usually one for things like this....but let me tell you this is something I can cheer about! Think about it, someone, somewhere along the line took the time to teach you something you know now. While you figured...

Okay, Matt Hester has scooped a terrific video on the future of the Halo series, from the people over at LoadingReadyRun . This is great stuff and worth the short 6 minutes that explains what will happen. You can click it above to watch the video. Definitely...

You know you've made it when you land on the Canadian IT Pro User Blog . I just returned from a whirlwind tour of Western Canada where I hit 4 cities in 4 days (Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Victoria) and then had less than 20 hours at home before...

That's not a question. It's a statement. If you've ever spoken to me, or visited this blog previously, you know I'm about one of the most fanatic Green Bay Packers fans around. I don't have a single Brett Favre jersey.....I have three. I don't have a...

In the last post, I touched upon the reasons that Insider Threat is often ignore by corporations and businesses (yes.....this probably means you.) I also discussed the reasons why this threat is of much greater than concern than some 17-year old kid in...

This is currently an area I've been focusing on for the past month or so. I've been doing a lot of reading, fact finding, research, etc. around the topic of data leakage that occurs when users are essentially stealing data from within your business. This...