Arjen Kamphuis tasked me with the proper disposal of one of his personal devices, a MacBook Pro4.1 laptop.

After hearing that Duracell would bring an oxyacetylene cutting torch, I let Jos Weyers have the honour of destroying the harddisk (and virtually everything else).

Job well done, I'd say.

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This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report: www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-462T

CYBERSECURITY: A Better Defined and Implemented National Strategy Is Needed to Address Persistent

Challenges

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Blog post : www.foo.be/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/2009-07-31-The_Yin_and_Yang_Of...

Visualizing the Yin and Yang of Information Security. Working in the information security field, I had some difficulties to explain the equilibrium I tried to reach. Stuck (again) in a traffic jam, I quickly drew the following three circles representing the three kind of "information security" approach. I somehow work in the three circles and often trying to reconcile the three with some failures but also some success.

Being in the centre is very hard, you have to balance between proper implementation (the creation part), proper implementation against "deconstruction"/attacks while keeping an eye on the scientific input.

In the chapter 46 of the "Myths of Security", John Viega is nicely explaining when you are just in the academic hacking circle without going close to the two other circles. You are doing academic novelty that no one can use, implement and attack. So the impact of your academic research is only the academic circle and nothing else.

When Linus Torvalds is stating "we should not glorify security monkey", this is the classical behaviour of staying in the "de constructing" circle without trying to find something creative and/or academic to solve the security issue.

When Wietse Venema is explaining that you should write small independent without modifying existing program to not affect the integrity of the others program, it's when you are creating a new software without taking into account the "de constructing" attacks on your software or the scientific background to make your software with a good level of formal correctness.

I'm the first to make the mistake to be contained in a single circle but you must force yourself to touch the two other circles in some ways. Information security is difficult but this equilibrium (academic, creativity and deconstruction) is difficult to reach. When you are close to reach to it, this is really a great moment...

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Adaptive Communications is the Northeast's leading provider of customized, robust and flexible IT Infrastructure, Information Security, and Data Storage solutions.

Partnering with leading manufacturers, Adaptive understands the complex world of technology. Our comprehensive Network, Storage, and Information Security Solutions and Services have not only won our customers' trust, but have helped our clients achieve results, meet compliance mandates and guard against hidden vulnerabilities and potential threats.

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George the Penguin, the Akamai Technologies InfoSec team mascot, joined Akamai's 6th Annual Akamai Edge Conference in Washington, DC. George's mission is to help educate on the benefits of security and reward those that perform outstanding acts of security. He is frequently found exploring his surroundings and popping up in the least expected places.

Learn more about Akamai Security Solutions: www.akamai.com/security

Learn more about George's story: www.securitypenguin.com/

The Kiwicon intros get more awesome from year to year. This year, a DeLorean and Metlstorm with pyrotechnics took the cake.

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