• 15 Apr 2010

    CSRF doesn’t matter?? The sky is falling!

    Here's a great piece where something I wrote put a grown man with a hacker handle's boxers in a bunch. With all due respect to what Robert has contributed to our field, he is missing the point of my 8 sentence statement about cross-site request forgery (CSRF) not being a top priority (formerly published on SearchSoftwareQuality.com). It reminds of me when I wrote about Changes coming to the OWASP Top ...

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  • 16 Dec 2009

    How Tiger Woods’ marriage is like risk management

    In the seemingly unavoidable media drone tirades hammering Tiger Woods and his marital situation I realized the tie-ins that such high-profile marriages have with what we do in the information security field. It boils down to two things:It's all about the moneyThe focus going in is on who can get the most out of it - "what's in it for me?"We see this all the time when it comes to ...

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  • 30 Jun 2009

    Tool to take the pain out of threat modeling

    Can you tell I'm getting caught up on talking about some neat security tools worth checking out!? Well, here's another one: Amenaza's SecurITree that I first wrote about in my book Hacking For Dummies, 2nd edition. It's a decision support tool you can use to analyze specific threats to your business and the likelihood of attack. Threat modeling is something that many people do in their head "qualitatively" (or not ...

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