Archive for May, 2008

Royal Holloway Alumni Event - Agenda Now Online

May 30, 2008

http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/node/277

Royal Holloway Alumni Event - Agenda Now Online

May 30, 2008

http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/node/277

Life at Microsoft - The Truth Revealed

May 26, 2008

Life At Microsoft - The Truth Revealed

Pictures from Silverstone

May 24, 2008

For my birthday earlier this year my wife got me a track day at Silverstone. Last Saturday I took out a Lotus Exige and a Ferrari Modena 360 at the home of British Motor Racing, Silverstone. The Exige was OK but barely faster than my Audi, a little too cramp for a 6′3″ guy and [...]

Checklists Are Not For Dummies, Dummy!

May 24, 2008

At the OWASP Conference in Belgium this week I had a slide about checklists.

This is the story behind the slide. My boss at Microsoft has a friend who is a pilot. He did his pre-take-off checklist and was cleared to taxi onto the runway by air traffic control. He consulted his checklist one [...]

Presenting Security Ideas or Driving Agendas?

May 24, 2008

I opened the OWASP Europe Conference this week with a slide (below) about vendor neutrality.

In essence I urged attendees to consider the motivations of those presenting various ideas at the conference; including myself of course. During the conference it was pointed out that the moderator of a panel “The PCI 6.6 Dogfight - [...]

Welcome to Microsoft Carric Dooley

May 19, 2008

(If you are a Lost fan, people keep appearing on the Island. What’s really happening?)
Carric and I have worked together for the last 8 years. I first saw customers reverence for him when I moved to Atlanta while working for ISS in 2000. Carric was a contractor at Coke and I was explicitly told by [...]

Born Brave?

May 14, 2008

How familiar is this?