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Rational Survivability
Hoff’s Ramblings about Information Survivability, Information Centricity, Risk Management and Disruptive Innovation.
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On building fire extinguishers and fighting fires…

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[Updated below 6/8/15] The last ten years of my professional life have been spent working for some amazing companies; architecting and building security solutions that are deployed across the globe in the ...
Talking ’bout My Next Generation

The 3 Immutable Rules Of Presentations…

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There are three immutable rules that pertain to presentations*, even more so important if one’s presentation is in front of several thousand people, live: Never present with kids Never present with a ...

Looking Forward to Catching Up At RSA…

| | HacKid, Security Conferences
If Black Hat and DEF CON are Security Summer Camp, then RSA is the Spring Dance. I think this is my 16th RSA Conference.  I believe I am now eligible for the ...

Attribution is the new black…what’s in a name, anyway?

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Attribution is hard.  It’s as much art as it is science.  It’s also very misunderstood. So, as part of my public service initiative, I created and then unintentionally crowdsourced the most definitive ...
Active defense and the A.R.T. of W.A.R

The Active Response Continuum & The Right To Cyber Self Defense…

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At the 2015 Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit, I kicked off the event with a keynote titled: “Active Defense and the A.R.T. of W.A.R.” The A.R.T. of W.A.R. stands for “Active Response Techniques ...

Incomplete Thought: The Time Is Now For OCP-like White Box Security Appliances

Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen some transformative innovation erupt in networking. In no particular order OR completeness: CLOS architectures and protocols are evolving the debate over Ethernet and IP ...
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J-Law Nudie Pics, Jeremiah, Privacy and Dropbox – An Epic FAIL of Mutual Distraction

From the “It can happen to anyone” department… A couple of days ago, prior to the announcement that hundreds of celebrities’ nudie shots were liberated from their owners and posted to the ...
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How To Be a Cloud Mogul(l) – Our 2014 RSA “Dueling Banjos/Cloud/DevOps” Talk

Rich Mogull (Securosis) and I have given  a standing set of talks over the last 5-6 years at the RSA Security Conference that focus on innovation, disruption and ultimately making security practitioners ...

On the Topic Of ‘Stopping’ DDoS.

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The insufferable fatigue of imprecise language with respect to “stopping” DDoS attacks caused me to tweet something that my pal @CSOAndy suggested was just as pedantic and wrong as that against which ...