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Show 008 - An Interview with Brian Chess

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2006-11-17 16:35:55 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
...Brian Chess, co-founder and chief scientist of Fortify Software. Brian completed his computer science Ph.D. at UC Santa Cruz after several years in the commercial sector. Gary and Brian discuss what commercial developers and academics have to learn from each other, what its like to work for a Kleiner-Perkins startup (KP is the VC firm behind...
 
Tags: brian, brian chess, brian discuss, brian kernighan, software security, software, gary talks, commercial developers, kleiner perkins caufield
 
 
 
 
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TippingPoint chief architect says embedding security in switches and routers is a fools errand

2008-05-25 10:32:00 by HASH0x8b59cb4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Brian Smith, chief architect of Tipping Point talking to SearchSecurity.com. Brian comes right out and says that the original idea behind the 3Com acquisition was synergies of putting security into switches and routers. After about a year of trying to do this, he says that he realized it was a "fools errand" because security is evolving so...
 
Tags: tippingpoint, security, brian, brian smith, 3com acquisition, acquisition, spin tippingpoint, chief architect, 3com
 
 
 
 
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TippingPoint chief architect says embedding security in switches and routers is a fools errand

2008-05-25 11:32:00 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Brian Smith, chief architect of Tipping Point talking to SearchSecurity.com. Brian comes right out and says that the original idea behind the 3Com acquisition was synergies of putting security into switches and routers. After about a year of trying to do this, he says that he realized it was a "fools errand" because security is evolving so...
 
Tags: tippingpoint, security, brian, brian smith, 3com acquisition, acquisition, spin tippingpoint, chief architect, 3com
 
 
 
 
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The Checklist

2008-02-07 20:14:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
Brian Chess wrote about a great article in the New Yorker - " The Checklist ." The article is a fantastic read and I highly recommend it, even if you're not interested in medicine. It is well written and quite engaging about how doctors handle a ridiculously complex topic - intensive care Like Brian, I was struck by how closely the article can...
 
Tags: secure, develop secure software, software, software development organizations, health, health care delivery, security, checklist, software development world
 
 
 
 
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Irish jobs site compromised and personal information accessed

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2008-03-31 10:13:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Brian Honan of online security consultancy BH Consulting says on his firms official blog that there are no mandatory breach disclosure laws in Ireland and that Jobs.ie should be "commended for coming clean about the incident" and doing so within 24 hours of the breach Evan] I agree with Brian Contrary to media reports, the DPC told ENN that,...
 
Tags: jobs, information, personal information, job-seekers site jobs, site, identity, identity theft, breach description, breach
 
 
 
 
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Protecting the Keys to Your Kingdom

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2008-02-14 18:43:00 by Mike Rothman in Security Mike's Blog
...Brian Krebs goes over a few password storage tips and tools in this post . Send him a note and thank him. He's provides some great advice I use Mac OS X for 95% of my computing tasks. So I bought the leading password manager for Mac users - 1Password . It works great. I let it generate very strong passwords for my sensitive sites. They are...
 
Tags: password, password manager, passwords, strong passwords, password storage tips, sites, sensitive sites, source tools, online merchants
 
 
 
 
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RSA Europe 2007 Trip Summary

2007-10-26 01:06:32 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...Brian Chess gave two presentations at the conference. Unfortunately, I was only able to attend one. This presentation focused on common, and significant, security problems that must be addressed during development Brian referenced two resources in his presentation, both of which I plan on researching Fortify Taxonomy: Software Security...
 
Tags: application security pitfalls, application, security, security theater, information security, software security errors, presentation, bruce, bruce schneier keynote
 
 
 
 
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More than 7,000 are affected by stolen University of Virginia laptop

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2008-04-18 15:34:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Brian McNeill, DailyProgress.com Response From the online sources cited above A laptop stolen from a University of Virginia employee contained sensitive information about more than 7,000 students, staff and faculty members Stolen from an unidentified employee from an undisclosed location in Albemarle County, the laptop contained a...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, virginia, information, chief information officer, information security, virginia employee, laptop, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Links List 9.5.08

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2008-09-05 18:52:47 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
...Brian Stevens as an extension to the Linux kernel that allows it to be used as a bare-metal hypervisor, running directly on the underlying hardware and hosting guest operating systems. But according to Brian Madden, the press around the purchase is all focusing on the not-so-interesting part. Along with KVM, the SolidICE product includes...
 
Tags: list, brian, cto brian stevens, purchase, red hats purchase, hypervisor, million, million salary, bare-metal hypervisor
 
 
 
 
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Phishers and Malware authors beware!

2007-06-18 14:59:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog