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Wow - We hired Crispin Cowan!!!

Michael Howard just announced that we've hired Crispin Cowan ! This is incredibly awesome, I have a huge amount of respect for Crispin , he's one of the most respected researchers out there. Among other things, Crispin's the author and designer of AppArmor Read More...
Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 10:31 AM by LarryOsterman | 5 Comments

How to lose customers without really trying...

Not surprisingly, Valorie and I both do some of our holiday season shopping at ThinkGeek. But no longer. Valorie recently placed a substantial order with them, but Instead of processing her order, they sent the following email: From: ThinkGeek Customer Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:21 PM by LarryOsterman | 25 Comments

Firewalls, a history lesson

Recently, a rather high profile software company has been taken to task about its patching strategy. One of the comments that was made by the customers of this company was basically: "We don't have to worry, all our servers are behind a firewall". I've Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 8:46 AM by LarryOsterman | 23 Comments

Oh wow, Bruce Schneier's blogging.

I just discovered that Bruce Schneier , author of Applied Cryptography is blogging. His blog (including a full content RSS 1.0 feed) can be found here . Bruce's one of those people I truely respect in security, he's been highly critical of Microsoft in Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 07, 2004 5:43 PM by LarryOsterman | 8 Comments

Desigining an authentication system

I ran into this a while ago, and thought it was a wonderful discussion of how to go about designing a high quality authentication system. As I’ve mentioned in the past, authentication is one of the hardest problems in security – authorization Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:47 PM by LarryOsterman | 8 Comments
 
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