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Présentation : Today's Daily Incite June 8, 2009 - Volume 4, #27 ---------------------------- Good Day, y'all: The Boss was having a GNO (girl's night out) yesterday, so being the lazy slug that I am - I decided to take the kids out for dinner. That went fine, especially since I didn't force the boy to eat anything besides french fries. Some (I mean most) days it's just easier to give in than to dig in and cause many tears and heartbreak for those unlucky enough to sit by us. I'm waiting for social services to drop by any day now, especially when I force the kid to eat chicken nuggets or a different brand of cheese stick (he's partial to the Shrek cheese sticks). Nothing good can come from this game.... Seriously. But this kid has the constitution of Gandhi, so I have no doubt he'd go on a hunger strike if we don't make the 20 minute drive to the one Super Wal-Mart in the metro Atlanta area that actually carries those damn cheese sticks. I'm all for the hunger strike because we could certainly do with the extra $5 or $6 of groceries the kid actually consumes each week. Yet the Boss isn't there yet, so we continue to negotiate. But that's not even what I wanted to talk about. On the ride home the girls are bantering about some nonsense or other, and all of a sudden my oldest blurts out "Truth or Dare." I almost drove the van off the road I was laughing so hard. Clearly the kids are growing up way too fast. I remember back to my high school days and "Truth or Dare" certainly had a less than innocent connotation. Of course, I had to live vicariously through my friends because I had no rap and I wasn't invited to play in those cool games. But the last thing I expected to hear was my 8 year old wanting to play this game. Where did she learn about the game? And obviously she didn't know about the "less than innocent part," at least I hope so. Yes, I'm coming to grips with the reality that I will be the Dad that is cleaning the shotgun when the first few suitors come to visit my girls. Hopefully will word spread and I can return the shotgun to Wal-Mart. And while I'm there, I may as well pick up some of those Shrek cheese sticks. A boy can't exist on chicken nuggets and Oreo cookie yogurt alone, now can he? Have a great day. Photo: "Let's Play Truth or Dare" originally uploaded by loser Technorati: Information Security, CSO, Security Mike, Internet Security The Pragmatic CSO The Pragmatic CSO: Available Now! Read the Intro and Get "5 Tips to be a Better CSO" www.pragmaticcso.com Incite 4 U ========== It's a cold day in hell. That's right, I just opened up a Twitter account. I suspect this isn't the first time someone will call me a twit, but at least now it's legit. I'll explain why (after 18 months of being VERY resistant to the idea) in more detail tomorrow, but in the meantime you can follow me @securityincite. I'm still trying to figure out how the damn thing works, but I'll likely be doing daily updates there, so check it out. I'll start in earnest tomorrow. And without further ado, here is some Incite. 1. That's right, one hell of a job - One of the great things about being at META back in the day was the battles we'd have about our research positions. Though it's not the same, seeing the debate on BlogInfoSec about whether security is the worst it's ever been (and whether we practitioners categorically are delusional about the job we are doing) kind of reminds me of those research meeting battles. I have to side with Sam DeKay here since the times are different now and comparing what we accomplish now (for a given investment) with what we accomplished back in the days before firewalls is a bit of an apples to rutabaga type of comparison. That being said, we have a lot of work to do, but it's not necessarily work on protecting things - it's work on the perception of security's value to the muckety-mucks. 2. Fighting off the Botnets - Interesting article on NetworkWorld about defending against botnet-based denial of service attacks. There are a few options, including some services that you can buy and some other techniques that you can do on your own network. The most interesting (to me anyway) is the idea of using Cisco's reputation filters. Back from my anti-spam days I saw the value of reputation and as it gets embedded in the network it will be a good thing. But the reputation is only as good as the data used to determine someone's reputation. The fact that you saw an IP address scrawled on the stall at a concert probably should automatically disqualify someone from sending you an email. Though it's probably not an insignificant data point. It would be interesting for Cisco (and the other reputation providers) to be transparent about how these reputations are determined. But there is a fat chance of that happening. 3. Defining your priorities - Gunnar is right on the money in discussing (and expanding on James McGovern's expansion of Gunnar's information security focus post) enterprise security priorities. He takes James' principles and does a good job of explaining and clarifying. Though I do want to make the point that ARCHITECTURAL priorities are much different than OPERATIONAL priorities. There is no doubt that auditors drive a lot of architecture and some tactical projects. But we as practitioners also have to pay attention to how we prioritize our operational responsibilities. You have a list and what needs to get done each day? That is one of the most important decisions you will make. I'm good and appreciate high level thinking, but we can't forget the tactical ways we decide what to focus on. In many cases, a broken operational prioritization is much more damaging than a broken architectural prioritization. 4. Why the SDL is like Seinfeld - I'm a big fan of quick wins. In fact, with today's CNN-based ticker at the bottom, multi-tasking, ADD ridden society, if you can't get a quick win, you usually don't get to keep playing. The guy who runs NBC said that Seinfeld wouldn't have been given the time to develop if it had been introduced in 2007, as opposed to 1989. Sad, but true. So Jeremiah talks a bit about how to get a quick win, and amazingly enough it has to do with vulnerability assessment + WAF (which is one of Big J's specialties, or that of his company anyway). Interestingly enough, there is a disincentive to do the right thing, which is to build software correctly in the first place. The SDL doesn't show value quickly enough, and therefore is a risk for CISO's to push for it. As they are casting for the SDL-Seinfeld web show, you've got to love Shostack to play Kramer. A little hair gel and the likeness is uncanny.






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