Most people understand “Moore’s Law“: Compute power grows at the rate of doubling about every 2 years At Metricon6, I asserted “HDMoore’s Law” version 1: Casual Attacker power grows at the rate of Metasploit* *HD Moore (@hdmoore) gave the industry the Metasploit Project in 2003 – a wildly successful and leveraged open-source penetration testing platform. Perhaps [...]
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One of the things on my mind lately is a deceptively simple idea/question: How replaceable is an asset type? And a nagging question/observation: Why do we spend the majority of our time in IT security on the most replaceable assets like regulated credit card data – at the opportunity cost and neglect of less-and-irreplaceable assets [...]
So much in life is about managing expectations… Given the title which inspired this blog, many of the topics and issues raised here will not be cut and dry – nor black and white. Some concepts are susceptible to intellectually honest discussion and disagreement – some will require it. Some may even appear polarizing. I’ve [...]
Wikipedia describes Cognitive Dissonance as: an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously. Cognitive: pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes. Dissident: One who differs in sentiment or opinion, esp. from the majority Cognitive Dissidents: Those of us who sense a tension and [...]
