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Posts from November 2006

The Major Problem With Security, Demonstrated by Google

Security members all face a common issue/goal. Raising their profile and awareness to a business level and removing it from the realm of IT. Every meeting/seminar and workshop I’ve been to over the last year has touched on this topic. Daily I read e-mails from mailing lists about howto’s etc. I [...]


AISA Seminar Day Wrap Up

I thought I’d post a few notes I took @ ASIA’s seminar day. A point that all speakers made was that Security is a business function/enabler, it is not part of IT. They nearly all mentioned that Metrics are the way of growing the Security space by reporting back to the business.
The Keynote speaker [...]


Model Interaction/Interfaces

Whilst Catching the train into the city yesterday, it occurred to me that the OSI Model, and Humans both operate in the same way. The lower levels must be covered off before advancing to the higher levels. It was very early yesterday and I was almost late for AISA, so I didn’t get [...]


Real World Example of the Interconnectedness of Being

Sydney’s had some pretty messed up weather of late; the bush fires have already started for the summer.
Whilst driving home this afternoon, I saw one of the most amazing sunsets I’ve seen in recent time (so captivating, I got out my phone for a basic snap).

What stood out about this simply amazing sunset was [...]


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