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• Big Bang Machine Hacked!

  Well, apparently no one planned any information security with the super collider. I love the quote from this guy who is obviously not a security guy “ We don’t know who they were but there seems to be no harm done. ” Right. No harm done. We’re sorta sure... Posted Sep 15 2008, 07:00 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security Management, IT Pro, Industrial Espionage, Crime

• The Security Show: Episode Two – Stopping James Bond (Part IV)

  This is the last of Episode Two and I hope everyone has been enjoying this interesting session with the FBI. In this final session, we wrapup and get a few comments from the audience. Good stuff.   Next time, I’ll be posting Episode 3 titled “Gate... Posted Aug 22 2008, 06:52 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Video, Events, Microsoft, IT Pro, Jack Bauer, People, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat, FBI, Crime, Tech-Ed 2008, The Security Show

• The Security Show: Episode Two – Stopping James Bond (Part III)

  I hope this is waking some folks up with regards to the huge issue that insider threat poses within your own company. We discuss some of the common characteristics that these people show and how we identify them. What are some of the triggers that make... Posted Aug 21 2008, 07:21 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Video, Events, Microsoft, IT Pro, Jack Bauer, People, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat, FBI, Crime, Tech-Ed 2008, The Security Show

• The Security Show: Episode Two – Stopping James Bond (Part II)

  In this part, we get some good advice from the FBI on how to have that talk with your executives who like to travel out of the country and don’t really understand the risk that they assume when they carry that laptop, cell phone, or other electronic device... Posted Aug 20 2008, 07:11 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Video, Microsoft, IT Pro, Industrial Espionage, Travel, Insider Threat, FBI, Crime, Tech-Ed 2008, The Security Show

• The Security Show: Episode Two – Stopping James Bond (Part I)

  I got it to work! I had some issues with the video playback in Silverlight after it came out of post-production in Sony Vegas. I really wish there was an easy way for Expressions Encoder to sort of “save your profile” so you wouldn’t have to go and tweak... Posted Aug 19 2008, 04:01 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, Microsoft, IT Pro, Jack Bauer, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat, FBI, Crime, Tech-Ed 2008, The Security Show

• The FBI Celebrates it’s 100th Anniversary!

  I had the distinct honor this week, of attending the Bureau’s 100th Anniversary celebration event here at the Dallas FBI Field Office . (I’m the one that’s not blurry in the picture on the left) The event itself was very well done and the speeches by... Posted Jul 23 2008, 09:56 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Video, Events, Security Management, Jack Bauer, People, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat, FBI, Crime

• RSA 2008 - Day 2: Windows vs. Linux, PLUS Insider Threat Experts, and The Parties

  Day 2. I'm a but wore out since I was up into the wee hours trying to get my new video blogging mess figured out. The process that I thought would be (encoding and uploading).....wasn't. But the part that I thought would be easy (quality of the HD stream... Posted Apr 10 2008, 12:51 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, Security Management, User Groups, IT Pro, People, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat, RSA 2008

• Where's Kai? RSA Conference 2008!!

  Well...if you're an IT Security Professional, you owe it to yourself to make the journey to the annual RSA Conference at least once in your life. It's the world's biggest security conference and many a great new announcement is made here. This year, it... Posted Apr 07 2008, 03:28 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, Security Management, IT Pro, Industrial Espionage, Travel, Insider Threat, RSA 2008

• Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part IX) - Oldies, but Goodies

  Well....I received an absolutely unexpected and pleasure of an email from one of the excellent speakers over at the The Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies about my blog posts! I'm not sure they were reading or simply scanning for references... Posted Jan 17 2008, 05:09 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Books, Microsoft, Security Management, Threat Assessment, Physical Security, IT Pro, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat

• Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part VIII) - Phone Home + The Power of the PMP!

  " Hey IT Guy , c heck out my cool phone! I can use it as a modem for my laptop! " Ever heard that from one of those end users? I'm sure you have. Sounds much better than " Check out my cool wireless bridge I've been using to exfil sensitive data out of... Posted Dec 05 2007, 06:08 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Podcasts, Security Management, IT Pro, Social Engineering, People, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat

• Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part VII) - Moving Data Out of Your Organization

  Well, if you've been following along...we talked about who the insiders are and the metrics behind economic espionage. We've discussed why they do it and how they get the data. But I know this probably hasn't been very technical for most of you. Today... Posted Nov 16 2007, 05:36 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Vista, Microsoft, Security Management, Threat Assessment, Physical Security, IT Pro, Industrial Espionage

• Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part VI) - Social Engineering

  If you've been with us the past few months, we've been talking about the who and why of economic espionage/insider threat. Starting today....we're about to make all you wannabe James Bonds out there understand the how. A New Degree in Engineering Still... Posted Nov 13 2007, 03:32 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security Management, Social Engineering, People, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat

• Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part V)

  I've done a lot of work in the past few weeks trying to get you to truly understand the person we've dubbed "The Insider". We've discussed who they are, and why they do what they do. Today I'm going to be looking at exactly what it is these insiders are... Posted Nov 05 2007, 02:02 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Security Management, Physical Security, People, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat

• Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part III)

  Today I'm going to discuss exactly who the these "insiders" are. As I mentioned earlier, the book " Insider Threat: Protecting the Enterprise from Sabotage, Spying and Theft " by Eric Cole and Sandra Ring has some terrific analysis and classification... Posted Oct 04 2007, 01:43 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Books, Microsoft, Security Management, Physical Security, People, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat

• Oh Canada!

  You know you've made it when you land on the Canadian IT Pro User Blog . I just returned from a whirlwind tour of Western Canada where I hit 4 cities in 4 days (Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Victoria) and then had less than 20 hours at home before... Posted Oct 03 2007, 08:15 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Bitlocker, User Groups, Forensics, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat

• Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part II)

  In the last post, I touched upon the reasons that Insider Threat is often ignore by corporations and businesses (yes.....this probably means you.) I also discussed the reasons why this threat is of much greater than concern than some 17-year old kid in... Posted Sep 29 2007, 01:35 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Social Engineering, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat

• Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat

  This is currently an area I've been focusing on for the past month or so. I've been doing a lot of reading, fact finding, research, etc. around the topic of data leakage that occurs when users are essentially stealing data from within your business. This... Posted Sep 18 2007, 09:07 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security Management, Physical Security, Industrial Espionage, Compliance, Insider Threat

• Tech-Ed 2007: Here we go!!

  Well, it's very late here in Orlando, and like a good speaker I'm still tweaking and adjusting my slides with recent data and working on my demos. I know, I know.... Steve Riley and I are on the same team, and are both going to be speaking at Tech-Ed... Posted Jun 03 2007, 02:29 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Forensics, Industrial Espionage, Electronic Discovery, Tech-Ed 2007

• Economic Espionage: Mitigating with Technical Methods

  So we're all technical folks...and we all like to use technical solutions to fix problems. I'm tellin ya, without the proper non-technical controls I mentioned earlier....you're dead in the water. Can't have bacon without eggs and peanut butter without... Posted Apr 13 2007, 12:34 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Vista, Bitlocker, Security Management, Physical Security, Encryption, Industrial Espionage, Electronic Discovery, Compliance

• Economic Espionage: A Real Threat

  Another semester in the bag. I finished my last Information Assurance course in graduate school this past week. The class was on Trusted Systems and we spent a lot of time discussing the Common Criteria, the ratings, mandatory vs discretionary access... Posted Apr 10 2007, 12:24 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security Management, Industrial Espionage

• Walking Data

  Well, I'm back from vacation to England. Very cool, but let's get back to what this blog is about: Security . So you got data leaving the business without permission? We all love to think the firewalls are being penterated by the 16-year old in the black... Posted Apr 09 2007, 05:40 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Vista, Security Management, Encryption, Industrial Espionage

• Ever Feel Like the Dumbest Guy In the Building at a Security Event?

  As you probably already know, my full time job is to travel around the world speaking to execs and IT Pros about the world of information security. Recently, I was invited to speak at the North Carolina Technology Association's Five Pillars of Executive... Posted Feb 14 2007, 10:33 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Physical Security, Jack Bauer, Industrial Espionage