Secure Tomorrow: Kevin Blanchard's Information Security Blog: September 2005

September 11, 2005

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

There is a great article over at ranum.com discussing what the author views as the six dumbest ideas in computer security. Many of the ideas are ones others have brought up in the past but cost or reduction of usability seem to win over security. A quick but educational read.

I have been working professionally in the information security realm since the late 90's. I am CISSP certified and a professional member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). I was doing cleared work in the Washington, DC area as an engineer primarily doing computer system security and PKI/PKE engineering. I also set up and hardened Solaris servers along with writing JAVA based middleware to aid in our PKI/PKE initiatives. While working in DC, I had the opportunity to do systems/network security, PKI/PKE, security R&D, along with plenty of integration and development for many government agencies and acquired skills and experiences I could never have gotten working outside of DC. My career in the government sector ended in late 2004 when I moved to Austin, TX. Since then my focus has been on corporate security engineering, mainly focusing on network security and IDS/IPS research, development and analysis.

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