I used to spend hours playing with Mappa Mundi tool (screen shots in the book) envisaging ways you could map security properties to parts of a web system and infer meaning. This totally free eBook (you can pay for the print version) is brilliant.
(The full content can be downloaded here, made available on Creative [...]
This BBC video show the migration of people and vehicles around the UK. Truly brilliant visualization. Thanks to Bill Marriott for pointing me to this.
NY Times Interactive Graphic
It’s no real secret what I am doing at Microsoft although I haven’t really blogged about it much. I do plan to start in the coming weeks with some long posts about platforms, information security BPM, applying business management techniques to the information security discipline, dashboards and business intelligence etc.
Before I do that and hot [...]
Conspiracy Theories abound but the fact is that the physical map is pretty cool and puts things in perspective.
(Click to open full size picture)
Thanks to Simon for mailing this.
This paper from IEEE describes how Ford Motor Company use the Threat and Application Modelling tool from my team to improve the security of their business applications.
Abstract: “Ford Motor Company is currently introducing threat modeling on strategically important IT applications and business processes. The objective is to support close collaboration between IT Security & [...]
My last blog leads me neatly onto to the good stuff. Joining a new company is like a poker game. They need to tell you enough to get you interested but not too much that if you decide not to join you could screw up their plans. I knew ACE had bits of cool stuff [...]
I am currently on my way back (this post was started on a plane) from a superb two weeks in Redmond meeting with my team and other folks in various parts of Microsoft. There is just so much cool stuff going on and in the plans that it’s hard to know where to start. I’ll [...]
The Singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. It’s serious business with serious potential impacts on our lives. If you think I am being sensationalist then this article on the global risk of singularity may also help puts its power into perspective.
What could singularity mean to security innovation? If we are truly at the [...]
I think I may buy shares in Wired. I seem to plug it every month when I read articles of interest that spark my imagination. After reading the Web War One article I was engrossed by the Halo 3 story. Just yesterday I had a conversation with someone about the sophistication of games versus the [...]
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