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Innovators, Imitators and Idiots

2008-10-07 08:32:33 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
Charlie Rose interviews Warren Buffett Charlie Rose And so when you look at where we are going, there seems to be two issues that are apparent to me at least, risk and leverage. We just lost sight of risk and leverage of what was appropriate Warren Buffett Yeah. Again, because it pays off for a while. You know, you can lose leverage, and it's...
 
Tags: risk, oeprational risk, risk events, risk-reward balance, wise people, people, buffett raises, buffett, blind risk acceptance
 
 
 
 
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Of Planes and Ships

2008-09-28 23:04:11 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...Information System, earned the Volpe Center a prestigious "Innovations in American Government" award this month from Harvard University's Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation Security Collaboration + Networking = Federation. This is indeed the future - SAML came along just at the nick of time When you assume that to do...
 
Tags: security, security architect, system, identification system, initial network cost, initial, cost, ulrich, time ulrich
 
 
 
 
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Conference Gurus

2008-09-24 10:35:01 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...security is a pretty good business, but I think that Dave Wichers, Jeff Williams and their whole crew should quit consulting and go into the conference business. I go to a lot of conferences and these guys pull off the best speakers, locations, and most productive conferences of anyone. These guys could make a plumber's convention in West...
 
Tags: security, web services security, web services, guys pull, business, west texas fun, security patterns, design exercise yesterday, conference business
 
 
 
 
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Mark Curphey On Builders and Breakers

2008-09-19 12:02:10 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...security. One thing you learn in consulting is that no matter what anyone tells you when you start a project about what problem you are trying to solve, it is always a people problem. The single biggest problem in security is too many breakers not enough builders. Please understand I am not saying that breakers are not useful, we need them,...
 
Tags: issues, security issues, security, application security consultants, message security, builders, systems, security architects, resilient systems
 
 
 
 
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What to watch for - the Rest of the Fortune 500 Gets Their Software Security

2008-09-18 15:06:51 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...security. They have had a lot of money, and lots of people try to steal from them their customers. They did drive some good stuff, but only from one vertical's perspective. I have advocated for awhile that software security look to other verticals to understand their security needs. Now that we're watching these behemoth financial firms...
 
Tags: software security, security, government customer, government, government people, people, financial people, software security vendors, financial services people
 
 
 
 
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Urgent Message

2008-09-17 19:57:30 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...information's about this operation. Should you be interested, please forward the following to me urgently 1. Full names 2. Occupation 3. Private phone number 4. Current contact address Please if you are not interested delete this email and do not hunt me because I am putting my career and the life of my family at stake with this venture....
 
Tags: email, current contact address, lucrative business proposal, email address, observe utmost discretion, business project, business relationship, hong kong, business suggestion
 
 
 
 
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Software Security May Live in Interesting Times

2008-09-17 06:57:27 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...security training and talking on Web services security and the OWAPS Top 10; and it should be "interesting" to be there in the middle of Hurricane Subprime as the MBAs scramble to restructure the global financial system. On the plus side, the Yankees are not going to make the playoffs The financial industry has driven a lot of things in...
 
Tags: software security, web services security, financial services, fewer hard edges, global financial system, technology, hurricane subprime, business models, healthcare company
 
 
 
 
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Assets Good Until Reached For

2008-09-15 09:41:43 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...Information Security, err I mean Information Risk Management Margin of safety Its our job to manage risk, but this doesn't mean that we have to build layers and layer of abstraction on top of it. It also means that we help to design, build, deploy, and operate systems with margins of safety. Understanding the failure modes and accounting for...
 
Tags: risk management, information risk management, risk management practices, risk, assets, industry, people, business people, security industry
 
 
 
 
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John Steven on Advanced Threat Modeling

2008-09-12 14:39:32 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
Cool, the QCon people posted John Steven's talk from last year on Advanced Threat Modeling . It is great to see software security filtering into some of the big software conferences
 
Tags: software security, john, threat, qcon people, software conferences, talk, cool
 
 
 
 
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It Was Sposed to Be So Eaaasy

2008-09-10 07:12:42 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop