Tech Talk Blog : March 2006

Who should take care of security?

I read an article on ZDNet UK today titled "Microsoft: Harden your environment" in which Ed Gibson, the Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft UK, said that "Businesses shouldn't look to the police, the law or Microsoft to deal with their security Read More

posted Friday, 31 March 2006 2:28 PM by Rocky | 0 Comments

Redmond Recap

Well I'm back from Redmond and I have to say it was great meeting the ACE Team, and getting to share ideas with them on the TAM threat modeling tool. We cleared up a few misconceptions for each other and laid the groundwork for some really great Read More

posted Wednesday, 29 March 2006 4:23 PM by Rocky | 0 Comments

Good stuff on the horizon...

I've been spending this week in Redmond talking with the ACE team about Threat Modeling, the plans for the TAM tool, and some future offerings for software security. The TAM tool met with a lot of enthusiastic interest around Australia and New Zealand. Read More

posted Thursday, 23 March 2006 2:56 AM by Rocky | 0 Comments

A few more pics

I've posted the pics I took at the Auckland event at http://www.flickr.com/photos/17276987@N00/ Have a look! Read More

posted Monday, 20 March 2006 1:36 PM by Rocky | 0 Comments

Threat Modeling Seminar Results

Results of the seminar. From Feb 27th to March 17th we conducted the MS Security Seminar across Australia and New Zealand. During this time I presented on the new ACE TM methodology, and the Threat Analysis and Modeling (TAM) tool. I can Read More

posted Monday, 20 March 2006 1:27 PM by Rocky | 0 Comments

New Zealand Security Seminar!

MS Security Seminar Coming to New Zealand! Read More

posted Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:23 AM by Rocky | 0 Comments
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Graham Elliott's Interview Answers

Well now that we're in Perth, and Graham has dropped off the tour, he sent me his mini-interview questions. Better late than never I suppose. So, here are Graham's answers to the questions. I'll be doing his presentation in Perth and Auckland, but I'll Read More

posted Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:13 AM by Rocky | 0 Comments
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Threat Modeling Awareness Update

Well as some of you know I've been keeping track of the number of people who have heard of, or that use Threat Modeling in their SDLC as we tour the country. So far, the numbers have been pretty consistent in each city on a per-capita basis. Here's Read More

posted Friday, 10 March 2006 9:34 PM by Rocky | 0 Comments

Jeff Alexander's Interview Answers

Here is what Jeff had to say on the questions... Aside from the boiler plate text that is posted on the eForum web site about your presentation, what would you say are the cool points in your presentation?[Jeff Alexander] Finding out new ways to really Read More

posted Friday, 10 March 2006 9:32 PM by Rocky | 0 Comments

Andrew Coates' Interview Answers

Here are the answers that Andrew Coates' gave me when he did the mini-interview. Aside from the boiler plate text that is posted on the eForum web site about your presentation, what would you say are the cool points in your presentation? AC: Developers Read More

posted Friday, 10 March 2006 9:27 PM by Rocky | 0 Comments

Michael Kleef's Interview Answers

I'm a bit behind with posting these, but here's Michael's answers to my mini-interview. Aside from the boiler plate text that is posted on the eForum web site about your presentation, what would you say are the cool points in your presentation? MK: Read More

posted Friday, 10 March 2006 9:23 PM by Rocky | 363 Comments

More Pics!

I've posted some more pictures of the events on my flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/17276987@N00/ The ones from Melbourne didn't turn out :-( but I got a few up there from Sydney and Canberra. It's off to Perth on Monday and Tuesday Read More

posted Friday, 10 March 2006 9:21 PM by Rocky | 0 Comments

Melbourne Rocked!

Well I have to tell you, Melbourne Rocked! We did both events in one day and had a great turnout for both of them. This was Steve Riley's last stop with the tour and Jesper takes over in Sydney. There was lots of interest in Infocard Read More

posted Tuesday, 7 March 2006 8:21 AM by Rocky | 1 Comments

TechTalkBlogs (TTB) Post Highlights

As the word about TTB gets around we've seem more blogs added, and a lot of posts about TTB itself. This is great gang, Keep up the good work! Here is a list of some of the more intreaguing techie posts I've seen on the list today: Paul Read More

posted Saturday, 4 March 2006 5:04 PM by Rocky | 0 Comments

Security News Roundup

After catching up on some of the security news that's been happening, I've found a few stories that I thought were interesting or note worthy. Security Focus ran a story about a University professor that required students to security scan (perform attack Read More

posted Saturday, 4 March 2006 4:26 PM by Rocky | 1 Comments
Filed Under: Security News

Andrew McMurray's Interview Questiosn

Andrew took over for Jeff Alexander in Adelaide. Here are his responses to my mini-interview questions. Aside from the boiler plate text that is posted on the eForum web site about your presentation, what would you say are the cool points in your Read More

posted Friday, 3 March 2006 8:21 PM by Rocky | 1 Comments
Filed Under: Security Events

Security Seminar Picture Site

Well I've finally registered a flickr site. I've posted the pictures I've taken so far to the site http://www.flickr.com/photos/17276987@N00/ Feel free to have a look and follow our progress around Australia / NZ. :-) Today was a real good day Read More

posted Thursday, 2 March 2006 11:38 PM by Rocky | 4 Comments

Adelaide Security Seminar Day

The Security Seminar full day session in Adelaide on Tuesday was a big success. We got to answer a lot of questions, and give some people some plans for how to help secure their systems. I enjoyed the day and really enjoyed seeing people get psyched Read More

posted Wednesday, 1 March 2006 1:18 PM by Rocky | 1 Comments
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