White Hat or White Whale?

White Hat or White Whale?
Scott Granneman, 2005-05-26

Sometimes an obsession over any one security approach, whether it's policy or a specific technology, can be a very unhealthy thing overall.

Colapse all | Post comment

White Hat or White Whale? 2005-06-02
Keed

I didn't see more specific examples of "obsession" in this article. ...

[ more ] [ reply ]

Ahab's vendetta turn him from Grey Hat to Black 2005-06-03
Bill Hannahs (1 replies)

While I enjoy your premise of Moby Dick as being a good parable for security professionals as well as modern capitalists, your?re really pushing the metaphor to fit your concept. And you don't need to, Melville covers the spectrum of management good and bad. Ahab was very open minded in his approach...

[ more ] [ reply ]

Re: Ahab's vendetta turn him from Grey Hat to Black 2005-06-14
Anonymous

Uh.. yea. Orignal Article was a good one. Nice work Scott!...

[ more ] [ reply ]

White Hat or White Whale? 2005-06-09
Anonymous

Really nice fusion. Made me think about the ideas we are asked to evangelize. The passion required for this, the focus, indeed the intensity of focus at the command line makes it difficult to see "big picture". I left my last security job because I worked with one of these and now I wonder if I ha...

[ more ] [ reply ]