, 2002-07-22
Unstoppable viruses, massive blackouts, hacked pacemakers? The government's number two cyber security guy wasn't this apocalyptic when he worked for Microsoft.
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Benefit of the doubt, or Doubt the benefit
2002-07-22
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High-Flying Schmidt
2002-07-24
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High-Flying Schmidt
2002-07-25
blacklight (1 replies)
blacklight (1 replies)
I think you mean 'syn-flood'.
Sorry to be picky, but as my physics lecturer used to say...
"If you want to understand things, give them a name - if you want to 'understand' a girl, DON'T get her name wrong!"
This misnomer places you below level three of 'the five ways to understand'....
Read & understand 'Practical Thinking' by Edward de Bono
Pick up your tickets for operating systems, hardware & networks.
Read, & reread 'Secrets & Lies' by Bruce Schneier
Then allocate 1+ hours a day to alldas, attrition, big brother, blackhat, CERT, Compaq, counterpane, eEye, HP, Infowarrior, Insight Manager, rfp, M$, neohapsis, register, securityfocus, snort, NAI, NetScreen, etc, etc.
Then spend 160+ hours a month defending network & server -uptime- (invisible while you got it, wait for the screams when you haven't) against entropy, financial directors, monkey sysadmins, script kiddies AND users.
Availability is a cornerstone of security, both are DIFFICULT, and until you have the names right you're not a player (let's not even go into the special 21st century malaise 'but they know what I mean!')
If it was just a slip of the pen... ;-) Sorry!!!
P.S. - High level management understand me because I speak 'plain english'.
Again, all personal views etc, etc.
Regards,
Brian
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