June 5, 2007 - Volume 2, #87
Good Morning:
Bootcamp - 1. That's right. One day to the P-CSO bootcamp. And boy is today going to be a busy day - wrapping up all the details, printing the workbooks, testing the brand spanking new projector, and basically just making sure I'm ready to put on a good show tomorrow. So I'll do a quick rant, blast through the news, get Leah ready for camp, and hibernate for the rest of the day. I'll be off the grid, so if you are trying to in touch with me, don't take it personally. I'll likely just let you know I'll be back in touch on Thursday, after I take obligatory 5 minutes and bask in the glory of a successful event and get back to work because that's what I do.
I have good news or maybe bad news, depending on how much I annoy you on a daily basis. It seems, based on my Doctor's expert opinion, that I'm going to be around for quite a while to incite you all. Not that I was worried, but hearing someone professional tell you that for a fat (though getting thinner), approaching middle age type of guy, I'm in decent shape. That's OK by me.
And the prostate check was much ado about nothing. I forgot that my Doctor has fine surgeon hands, not plumber or builder or brick mason hands. So that's good. I didn't even have to belt out "Moon River" at any point. Because I'm feeling charitable today, I think I'm going to send a case of Aqua-Glide to the local prison. What the hell? Maybe that would help reform the folks in the big house. Once a year, I regain my appreciation for Aqua-Glide. Any of you dudes out there over the age of 35 know exactly what I'm talking about.
I'm sure I have some more random thoughts, but I better get to Inciting, as opposed to philosophizing. Have a great day. FYI, there will likely be no Incite tomorrow. Maybe a quickie, but probably not. It's all Bootcamp, all the time.
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Top Security News
here by Bill Brenner of SearchSecurity [6]. I didn't hear the pitch, but the mere thought of it makes me want to puke. Why do we have to number everything today? Do we think things aren't advancing fast enough? Is our industry's self-esteem problem (actually make that the entire tech industry) finally coming too roost. How about SECURITY DONE RIGHT? I don't care if it's 2.0, 3.0 or 15.0. There will always be new applications and new attack vectors and pretty much new everything. And don't these guys know that customers never buy a .0 release?
Link to this [6]
CNET's Community site [7]. The question was pretty open ended, but one of the readers is wondering whether she needs to continue paying for security software. There are lots of comments, most coming down on the side that the free stuff is usually good enough. And if you take some simple precautions to lock down your machine and your network, it's definitely good enough. I'm on board with this, and in fact just loaded a free package on my father-in-law's machine last week. I figured he could take us out to dinner with what he'd save on renewing his Big AV subscription. Yes, I locked down his network and hardened his Windows machine.
Link to this [7]
humor piece on Dark Reading [8] goes through some of the things that customers really don't like about what sales folks do. And I concur with most of them, since I've either aided or abetted many of these things when I was a marketing guy. If you need a yuk, this morning, before you go and bang your head against the wall a few hundred more times, check this out.
Link to this [8]
The Laundry List
- Deal: EMC (RSA) buys Verid. Shows that the rest of the authentication market is totally asleep and reacting to whatever RSA does. - EMC Release [9]
- eEye formally gets into the paid research business. Monetizing research investments, go figure. - eEye release [10]
- Microsoft announces the "next-generation Forefront." Was there a first generation? They also claim to be the "first" to integrate unified protection, policy control and security management. Huh? Guess they've never seen ePO. - Microsoft PressPass Coverage [11]
- VeriSign and AirMagnet roll out a wireless IPS service. Since everyone is using one already, they must be ready for a managed alternative. This could be a little case of the cart before the horse. - VeriSign release [12]
Top Blog Postings
http://blogs.technet.com/steriley/archive/2007/05/31/when-you-say-goodbye-to-an-employee.aspx [13]
Link to this [13]
http://blog.ambersail.co.uk/wordpress/?p=162 [14]
Link to this [14]
http://msmvps.com/blogs/sp/archive/2007/06/02/pragmatism-doesn-t-always-work.aspx [15]
Link to this [15]