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16 Sep 2011I love solid state drives but I’m no fan of OCZ
I tweeted about this the other day but though it deserved a longer post. If you do anything with IT/security tools such as vulnerability scanners, network analyzers and the like you HAVE to get a solid state drive.Hands down, installing solid state drives in my laptops has been the best computer upgrade I have ever made in 22 years of using computers. Better than doubling my RAM, better than upgrading ...
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14 Sep 2011
NetIQ’s file integrity monitoring solution
A couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of speaking at the Information Week / Dark Reading Virtual Trade Show How Security Breaches Happen and What Your Organization Can Do About It.In my presentation How to Win the War Against Cybercrime, I apparently had a brain-cramp moment and said that I'm not seeing anybody with good file integrity monitoring. Um, duh, Kevin (as I smack myself in the face), ...
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12 Sep 2011
Speaking in Boston @ the CDW + TechTarget security seminar next week
I hope you'll have a chance to join me in Boston next week when I'm speaking at the TechTarget / CDW seminar: Predictive Security: Plan Ahead to Stay Ahead of the Next Threat.Boston, like several other upcoming events, is a 2-track seminar where I'll be giving the keynote and splitting the breakout sessions with my friend and roadshow colleague Pete Lindstrom among other vendor experts. [sidenote: Pete's the real draw ...
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26 Aug 2011
My new book: Implementation Strategies for Fulfilling and Maintaining IT Compliance
Check out my latest book published by Realtimepublishers.com:In Implementation Strategies for Fulfilling and Maintaining IT Compliance I share strategic and tactical methods for getting your arms around the compliance beast. You can download all the chapters (below) for free by signing up on Realtime's site. They've got a ton over other good content too.Here's the low down:Businesses are struggling more and more with the compliance requirements being pushed on them ...
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25 Aug 2011
Join me live today at Dark Reading’s webinar #iwkdrbreaches
I'm speaking at the #Information Week/Dark Reading Virtual Trade Show How Security Breaches Happen and What Your Organization Can Do About It. My session is titled How to Win the War Against Cybercrime and starts at 2:30pm ET. Here are a few words about it: What are you doing to avoid becoming the next Wikileaks, Google, or Sony? Despite the fact that businesses will spend over 50 billion dollars worldwide ...
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19 Aug 2011
What’s up with conferences in October?
I've had to turn down 3 speaking engagements the weeks of October 10th & 17th because I'm, well, speaking at other shows those weeks. Maybe it's something about the weather that time of year? Perhaps discounted meeting facility rental rates? I suspect the real reason is that all the top-notch security speakers are busy then so the conference organizers are reaching out to second stringers like me. BTW, my apologies ...
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26 Jul 2011
10 years working for myself
This month marks 10 years since I started my information security consulting business Principle Logic. I cannot express to you how grateful I am to be so blessed.Like many businesses, things weren't all rosy from the get-go. My wife, Amy, and I worked very hard to build up the business through networking, fostering relationships and little bit of marketing sprinkled in here and there. We did that over and over ...
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20 Jun 2011
I’m a speaker at the Gartner Infosec show this week
For those of you who happen to be attending the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit in DC this week, I'd love it if you could check out my session or at least stop by to say hello. I'll be serving as a panelist on mobile security at the following session:Protect Your Identity, Mobile PC and DataSession Code SPS13 - Potomac Ballroom 19:30-10:30amCheers!...
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17 Jun 2011
Proud to be a speaker on the TechTarget roadshow
I just completed two seminars this past week for TechTarget and CDW...One was in Minneapolis, which by the way, was probably the friendliest city I've EVER visited. Great bunch of folks...thanks for the great Midwestern turnout and hospitality!Our second stop was San Francisco...one of my most favorite cities to visit. I also had the opportunity to visit the nice folks at one of my publishers: Realtimepublishers.com (publisher of my latest ...
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20 May 2011
Newt is setting an example for all of us this week
I truly believe that Newt Gingrich is currently setting an excellent example of how we should live our lives. He's principled. He's unwavering. The man is unbreakable. Sure, he has made some bad choices and has stuck his foot in his mouth a few times. Answer me this: Who hasn't!? Look at what the liberal media and those who are threatened by his ideas are throwing at him this week. ...
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Client Testimonials
“A business associate referred our company to Principle Logic when we were seeking a resource to perform vulnerability /penetration testing for our external and internal networks. We found Kevin Beaver to be professional, well informed, and easy to work with. His testing did not disrupt our networks, and his progress updates were timely.
His final report was very thorough and included security recommendations for our network environment. The executive leadership was so impressed with Kevin’s security expertise, they have extended their agreement to continue to perform periodic testing. We highly recommend Kevin Beaver and Principle Logic as a resource for network security testing.”
(IT managed services firm)
Kevin has written/co-written 12 books on information security including one of the best-sellers of all time:
