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Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:33 AM

Is Kai Axford Speaking at TechEd 2008?

The short answer is YES! However, I'm not going to be confined to a single breakout room like I was last year. (ESPNism: " You cannot stop him, you can only hope to contain him .") If you remember, we had such a huge amount of folks wanting to get into
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:37 PM

Not your Mama's Webcasts: Kai does the Defense in Depth Webcast Series

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
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:09 PM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part IX) - Oldies, but Goodies

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
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 5:22 PM

TechNet Radio: Physical Security at Microsoft

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
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Monday, November 05, 2007 1:02 PM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part V)

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
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:20 PM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part IV)

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
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Thursday, October 04, 2007 12:43 PM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part III)

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.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 8:07 AM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat

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
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Saturday, July 21, 2007 2:45 PM

The Loss of a Hero: GEN Wayne A. Downing

For those of you who are frequent readers (or who know me personally), you know that my past is deeply-tied to my coming of age in the 75th Ranger Regiment and the Special Operations community. The man responsible for the creation of this organization,
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 1:03 PM

Wow! I wonder who's going to take the heat for this?

On the topic of "Ouch. Recently a Chinese Jin-class (Type 094) nuclear attack sub was picked up by a popular mapping application (not Windows Local.live.com....but the OTHER guys.) According to the Strategic Security Blog , it was imaged by a Quickbird
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:54 PM

I'm baaaaack

Well....as many of you can probably figure out, I've been remiss in my blogging as of late. Of course, there's no good excuse, except to put this in the context of "travel + content prep". Regardless.....I'm in fact back. This week is an interesting one.
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Friday, April 13, 2007 11:34 AM

Economic Espionage: Mitigating with Technical Methods

So we're all technical folks...and we all like to use technical solutions to fix problems. I'm tellin ya, without the proper non-technical controls I mentioned earlier....you're dead in the water. Can't have bacon without eggs and peanut butter without
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 9:33 AM

Ever Feel Like the Dumbest Guy In the Building at a Security Event?

As you probably already know, my full time job is to travel around the world speaking to execs and IT Pros about the world of information security. Recently, I was invited to speak at the North Carolina Technology Association's Five Pillars of Executive
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 9:21 AM

Convincing Your Boss to Move to Windows Vista (Part 2)...second attempt

(Trying this again, after apparently overwriting my earlier blog post....troubleshooting blogs...fun times) Well, I am long overdue in posting this and I apologize. As many of you are aware, I spend about 70% of my time on the road doing international
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:47 PM

Airport Security: Bruce finds a YouTube gem as well

For those of you who don't regularly read Bruce Schneier's blog (or books for that matter), it's a pretty good read and one you should consider. He found a YouTube gem from the TV show "Family Guy" that shows Stewie doing some pen-testing of his own.
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