Episode 99: Making a Point or Making a Difference?

In our last episode before the big 100, Martin, Andy, and Joseph tackled one of the bigger stories recently, the Mandiant Report on "APT1":

http://intelreport.mandiant.com/

That segued nicely into a recent article on Threatpost about "Avoiding Attack Attribution Distraction":

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/avoid-attack-attribution-distraction-022113

We wrapped up the night with a discussion of some of the more common failures that risk and security officers make:

http://blogs.gartner.com/paul-proctor/2013/02/24/risk-and-security-officer-failures/

Be sure to tune in next time for episode 100!

Martin, Andy, and Steve get together and, after a brief reflection about ShmooCon, talk about...

13 IT Security Myths and some ranting about Richard Stiennon...

http://m.networkworld.com/news/2013/021514-security-myths-266773.html?page=1

Are we investing the the wrong tech....or is this just another vendor survey?

http://m.networkworld.com/news/2013/021313-security-pros-say-their-companies-266702.html

A new Presidential CyberSecurity Directive....will it change anything?

http://www.zdnet.com/obamas-cybersecurity-executive-order-what-you-need-to-know-7000011221/

As always you can follow the podcast as @SFSPodcast!

Martin, Andy, and Yvette get together and discuss a little bit about these stories:

The Three Worst Words in the English Language....

http://www.darkreading.com/identity-and-access-management/blog/240147002/the-three-worst-words-in-the-english-language-can-t-we-just.html

Friend Of The Podcast Nick Selby of the Police Led Intelligence podcast rips Symantec a new one regarding how they treated the New York Times following the recent breach of the Times....

http://policeledintelligence.com/2013/02/04/we-dont-got-your-back-we-got-your-money/

And, finally, another Friend Of The Podcast, Wendy Nather, gives us a great training plan for RSA.  Yvette and Martin are *so* in on this training plan!

http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/22902-Training-for-RSAC.html