Monthly Archives: August 2010

Security Innovation is now an Art

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It’s very intriguing to see how our perceptions sometimes work against us – I have noted my “business” connections on LinkedIn regarding the recent merge of the Security & Innovation business into Security Art as part of me joining it as VP Business Development.

One of the first feedback I got arrived through twitter. the next few came in to my inbox, then LinkedIn, more twitter, and some text messages. Wow. Have I realized that twitter got to be as important as LinkedIn was I would have tweeted my move there first :-) . Anyway, to finalize the social media roundup if the news here it is:

After a long period of working alongside several great companies, I am proud to announce that the current activities of Security & Innovations are merged with Security Art. Some of you are already familiar with the ongoing relationships between the companies, and now it’s official. 
I’ll be serving as the Vice President for Business Development at Security Art starting immediately, and will continue to do what I enjoy the most – working with great people, find solutions that make sense for everything security related, and keep that great mix of business, marketing and hardcore technology. Security Art has managed to build a rock-star team of professionals (some of which I personally helped recruit) and I’m excited to be able to formalize this relationship and be able to offer even more to our existing and new customers, partners and colleagues. 

If you have any questions, opportunities or any other topic you’d like to discuss related to this please feel free to contact me personally. We are gearing up to announce even more exciting news pretty soon as we are expanding our line of business. Keep an eye on www.security-art.com or follow us on LinkedIn…

Updated speaking schedule!

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As noted before, for some reason beyond my understanding I am going to be speaking at both SOURCE Barcelona and Brucon in September, as well as in Excaliburcon in China (you guys must really like this whole crime meets state thing huh?).

So, down to business, SOURCE Barcelona is going to be awesome – It’s going to be my first SOURCE I’m really looking forward to getting back together with some of my friends (Chris, Wim, Jayson… the old Wuxi pwnage team en-scale), and meet people I wanted to pick their brains in person (Brian Honan – especially because I’ll miss his talk…).

Next up is Brucon. I’ve said enough about Brucon in the last conference schedule update, nevertheless, it’s shaping up to beat it’s last years’ reputation. Expecting great talks, great crowd, and awesome beer! As far as talks I’m looking forward to – will definitely catch up with Joe which I missed at DefCon, Craig who’s Skylab is of a personal/professional interest to me, Dale with the HeadHacking talk, and Fabian’s GSM one. Obviously there are many more, but as I’ve learned over the years – don’t be greedy (especially not at conferences)…

Last but definitely not least, Excaliburcon is going to happen after all! This year the location is going to be just outside of Beijing. We will all miss Wuxi a lot, but I’m really looking forward to checking out more of China. It was a great experience last year and I’m setting up my hopes pretty high for December as the speaker list is getting pretty hot!

The common threat across these three conferences is that unlike the “big ones”, they all allow the attendants a very close interaction with the talks. This really enables more information sharing and knowledge transfer, and I’ve really learned a lot more from smaller conferences such as these than from the big ones that sport a dozen tracks at the same time (think RSA… you are not going there for the content anymore…).

If you happen to be at one of those, feel free to ping me (or even better – buy me a beer :-) )!

Remembering “The Shoe”

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If you have been listening to any security podcasts in the past year or so, I’m sure you must have stumbled across the ISDPodcast (InfoSec Daily). If you haven’t, now’s the time to do so.

Matthew Shoemaker, one of the podcasters along with Rick Hayes, has passed away last Friday. He left a wife and two kids behind him.
I have had the great honor of being on the podcast, and to have a great conversation (on, and off the air) with both Rick and Matthew.

For donations to the Matthew Shoemaker memorial fund which would help out his wife and kids, Rick has set up a PayPal page – http://bit.ly/cVDsID.