Archive for the 'Speaking' Category

Social Networking, Crowd Sourcing and Security

June 10, 2008

I thought I posted this a while back so my apologies. At the OWASP Conference I spoke about social networking and how it may be applied to security domain in the future.  I used the slide below.
 

 
In a related but unconnected event, that Friday someone of the team sent out a simple spreadsheet [...]

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 - [...]

Jericho Forum Keynote

April 13, 2008

If you are in London for Info Sec and are a member of the Jericho forum please drop by and say hello. I will be delivering the keynote with a brand new deck for the first time in public. Look out for the funny videos!

TechEd North America 2008

April 13, 2008

I will be speaking at TechEd in Orlando in June (and probably the TechEds in Australia and New Zealand in September).
The Connected Information Security Group - CISG, part of the Microsoft corporate information security team are working on a technology framework and set of applications to support corporate information security management programs. The Microsoft  and [...]

Upcoming Speaking Events and DeepSec Austria Slides

December 10, 2007

DeepSec Austria was a great event. You can get my slides here. I think fun was had by all but feel free to leave a comment if you were there!
I will be speaking at a few events in the new year (…plus a few more not yet confirmed).
OWASP Australia - Gold Coast (keynote)
Microsoft TechDays 2008 [...]

Curphey and SourceClear Turn Blue!

September 18, 2007

I am extremely pleased to being able to announce that the SourceClear software (Oxygen Security Platform and the Security Life applications) will now be built at Microsoft and that I will be joining  as a full-time employee heading up the ACE Services group in Europe and product managing the software. Many people often start these [...]

Upcoming Speaking Events

August 15, 2007

I am speaking at OWASP Day in Belgium on September 6th.
http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Belgium#Next_Event:_OWASP_Day_.286-Sep-2007.29
I am speaking at DeepSec in Vienna on November 22nd
http://deepsec.net/schedule/

The Long Tail of Information Security (Part 2)

August 5, 2007

My last post The Long Tail of Information Security (Part 1) described why I think information security exhibits Long Tail economic characteristics, outlined the three forces of long tail markets and discussed the first, democratization of tools for production. The intent is to provide an insight into what the future of information security may look [...]

The Long Tail of Information Security (Part 1)

August 4, 2007

 
I have just finished reading the Long Tail by Chris Anderson (editor of Wired). It is brilliant and the best book I have read in several years. Its in the same class as Freakonomics and The Tipping Point.  I highly recommend anyone who reads my blog reads the Long Tail if they haven’t already done [...]