The Economics of Finding and Fixing Vulnerabilities in Distributed Systems  Quality of Protection Keynote Alexandria, VA October 27. 2008 Gunnar Peterson Managing Principal, Arctec Group Blog: http://1raindrop.typepad.com When Andy Ozment asked me over the summer to do this talk at QoP, I knew...

I hope this message gets through to the Obama people - Bill Joy would be an amazingly good pick for the newly created CTO cabinet post. A grand slam to the upper deck. You can count the people with as a good a track record in technology on one hand. Also, I could not agree more with John Doerr on th...

My favorite book from last year was Charlie Munger's "Poor Charlie's Almanack", there are so many fascinating parts in the book I can't go into them all here. Charlie Munger is Warren Buffett's partner at Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A, BRK.B), the book is a collection of a numb...

Gartner's own John Pescatore has issued a 12 world post: The best security program is at the business with the happiest customers. Happiness? Really? That's the measure of program effectiveness? I would see those 12 words and raise them one word (13 if you're scoring at home): There'...

NBA starts today, it is always good to have something to look forward to once the weather gets cold in Minnie. I follow two teams. The Celtics who have a decent chance at repeating as champs. KG and Pierce should be back in full force, hopefully Ray Allen holds up. Perkins and Rondo may get a little...

Great quote from Barron's interview this w/e from Jeremy Grantham:  Q. Do you think we will learn anything from all of this turmoil?  JG. We will learn an enormous amount in a very short time, quite a bit in the medium term and absolutely nothing in the long term. That would be the historical prec...

Just saw the Hunter S. Thompson movie - Gonzo, and if you are a fan you should to. Lots of good stuff in there, the film links various part of his life and career, and gives a pretty unvarnished view of the high highs and the low lows. Weaves in writing, politics, and fame seamlessly. I have never r...

iang surveyed the events that conspired to our present ever mounting economic problems. Interestingly enough Charlie Munger identified much the same themes (not all the particulars) way back in Wesco Financial's 1990 letter Granting the presence of perverse incentives, what are the operating mechani...

On Monday I did a talk on Web Services security at the MSP OWASP. The talk was ok, but not as good as at RSA because I Brian Chess did a better job with some of the stories than me. What was really good though was a number of questions and answers afterwards. One person asked the old chestnut - "do ...

http://www.magicformulainvesting.comIn his book "The Little Book that Beats the Market", Joel Greenblatt presents a formula for investing in companies based on two factors. The factors are from two of the most influential people in teaching investors how to think about investing - Ben Graham and War...