Security Advancements at the Monastery

Fear of the Unknown

Posted in IDS, Opinion on Aug 31st, 2008

As I begun to do some more work on the Bro intrusion detection system (IDS), I found myself thinking of the old Germans proverb, “Fear makes the wolf look bigger“. Thanks to wishi for posting a link to a photo of a drawing representing the proverb. What does that have to do with [...]

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From Cyberspace with Love

Posted in Censorship, China, DDOS, Estonia, International, Myanmar, OpenNet, Opinion, Pakistan, Russia on May 23rd, 2008

April 26 was the 22nd anniversary of the meltdown at the Russian Chornobyl reactor. On this day, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) began its live Web report covering a rally of thousands of people, organized by the Belarusian opposition. The demonstration was to protest the government’s decision to build a new [...]

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Security Pessimists

Posted in ISO 27001, Management, Opinion on May 5th, 2008

“A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he’ll feel worse when he feels better.” — Anonymous

Today, I wanted to take a break from the technical postings I have been doing lately and discuss a splintering that is occurring within organizations that can result in operational road blocks. [...]

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