Alan & Mitchell's Podcast

With Mitchell on the road so much this week, I had to go solo on tonights interview.  It was my pleasure to have as our special guest this week, Thomas Ptacek of Matasano Security. Thomas is someone I have admired from a distance for some time now.  He and the folks at Matasano are some of the most respected security researchers.  Meeting Thomas is a great example of the kind of people I have been able to meet blogging. In tonights episode Thomas talks with me about: 1. His career in information security, including how he discovered a vulnerability that broke almost every IDS out there, working security a large ISP, Arbor Networks and starting Matasano 2. What Matasano does, how they do it and who uses it, as well as who doesn't 3. ITSecurity.com's list of influential IT Security people and how you can't believe everything you read, even if it is on the Internet. 4. Security elitists, do they have a right to be better than you?  It was a pleasure to interview Thomas.  Mitchell's loss in not being able to make it. He is here for the intro and wrap up. If you like the content of these shows or have any other comments or questions, please drop us a line at podcast@stillsecure.com Thanks to ClickCaster for hosting our podcast. Tonights music is the usual, To the Summit by Jon Schmidt. You can hear more from Jon at  http://www.jonschmidt.com.  Music transitions between segments are by our own Mitchell Ashley!