Alan & Mitchell's Podcast

Mitchell and I are joined this week by Bill Brenner. Bill is the senior editor at CSO Online. We have been trying to get him on as a guest since he was with searchsecurity.com!
Bill talks mostly about how the current economic crisis might effect the security industry. We also talk about the life of a security journalist and what is the next big thing in security.

The interview with Bill does not come on until around 17 minutes in. Mitchell and I first talk about a mess of things including Apple, Green NAC (but not Green Apples), M&A in security, etc.

Its good to be doing these podcasts regularly again. Hope you enjoy it!

If you have any questions, write to us at podcast@stillsecure.com

In episode #57 Alan and Mitchell interview industry luminary Tom Noonan, co-founder and former CEO of Internet Security Systems (ISS). Following IBM's acquisition and integration of ISS, Tom recently retired from IBM and is on the advisory board of Network-Based Entitlement Control (NBEC) company Rohati (http://www.rohati.com). Tom efforts at ISS truly helped shape the security industry by creating early automated vulnerability and intrusion detection products, the X-Force security research team, and ushered in the era of UTMs (Unified Threat Management). We spend some time understanding both how the security industry has changed and how the lessons from building ISS into an industry powerhouse apply to today's security market.

Michael Montecillo, a security practitioner who now works for analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) covering the security industry, joins us to talk everything from the undue influence and power of analysts on the market, to promoting Michael in a Brazilian Jujitsu match. How much do vendors influence analysts? Are analysts really independent when vendors hire them as consultants? Can vendors influence the amount and kind of coverage they get? Some analysts have taken to the practice of making predictions, like Gartner’s death of IDS, or Microsoft catering by 2011. We also turn the SSAATY Spotlight on Symantec who’s cannibalizing sales from their channel and the impact to Microsoft’s partners for the new hosted Microsoft Online Services. We record tonight’s podcast in the studios of Medioh thanks to our friend and faithful podcast engineer Scott Converse. Scott also gives an update on Medioh and the new video guide capabilities.

Episode 55 of SSAATY is a fun one. Mitchell and I are joined by JJ, Jenifer Jabbusch of Security Uncorked blog. JJ is someone I have gotten to know over the last year or so and she is a lot of fun. On top of that she is very technical and huge supporter of 802.1x, NAC and security in general.

JJ, Mitchell and I talk abour Rohati, NAC, 802.1x and a bunch of other stuff in our usal rambling, stream of consciousness style. It is about 40 minutes of informative good times.

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 pod-o-matic 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!

Mitchell and I are back!  It has been a few months, but the stars finally lined up to allow us to record a show.  It was great being back behind the microphone again.  Mitchell and I discussed a number of topics: 1. Recent penetration of the FBI 2. TJX fires an employee for disclosing lax security 3. Barracuda makes an offer for Sourcefire 4. G.hos.st Along with the usual back and forth. Hopefully it will spur us on to do more of these podcasts!. 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!

Someone put chocolate in our peanut butter! Mitchell and I are lucky to be joined today by the dynamic duo of the Network Security Podcast, none other than Martin McKeay and Rich Mogull! In this Flintstones meet the Jetsons episode, the four of us discuss a couple of topics. Among them are: 1. What right to privacy do you have to information you post on line. Can employers use your "personal" web postings against you? As social networking proliferates can we keep a handle on what is known about us on line? 2. HP claims they employ 9 of the top 11 security hackers. What about Microsoft? Who are we kidding here? 3. A special message for security bloggers, podcasters and media types attending RSA. If you don't know what we are talking about, be sure to contact us at podcast@stillsecure.com 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!

  Podcast #43 is another NAC-tacular one with two special guests. One is Andrew Braunberg, director of enterprise security research at Current Analysis. Our second guest is Andy Dornan, renowned author, journalist and analyst from Network Computing. Current Analysis and Network Computing recently published the results of their second annual NAC survey. The survey shows some real trends in NAC adoption, as well as some very interesting views on NAC from real world users. Mitchell and I spend some great time with Andy and Andrew talking NAC Also, Mitchell and I talk about Black Hat coming up this week. We will try to do a podcast from the show if possible. If you are going to be at Black Hat, please stop by and say hello!Our friends from South Africa, Sensepost have a special offer for those who would like to attend their hacking classes at Black Hat this year. Anyone who signs up for this offer can also pick up a StillSecure T-shirt by coming by our booth at Black Hat with proof of signing up for the course. Please have a listen to this message and visit their site. 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!

Episode 42 is a NACfest! Our special guests are Steve Hanna, co-chair of the TNC/TCG and Amith Krishnan, senior product manager of Microsoft's security technologies including NAP. Steve, Amith, Mitchell and I discuss the finer points of the recent demonstration of the interoperability between NAP and the TCG standards and what this means for you. We dive pretty deep in just how this interoperability works and what Windows Server 2008 will mean to those interested in NAC. We also talk a bit about what this means for Cisco and other NAC vendors. Does this represent the future of NAC? What other functionality is envisioned? Will it cover non-Windows operating systems? These and other questions are all answered in the show. Enjoy! Our friends from South Africa, Sensepost have a special offer for those who would like to attend their hacking classes at Black Hat this year. Anyone who signs up for this offer can also pick up a StillSecure T-shirt by coming by our booth at Black Hat with proof of signing up for the course. Please have a listen to this message and visit their site. 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!

Podcast 41 features the return of two old friends.  Mike Rothman of Security Incite and the Pragmatic CSO and Michael Farnum of Information Security Place, ComputerWorld and Accuvant.  Mike and Michael join us for the entire show and we cover: This Week in Security: 1. RIP Caymas Systems 2. To be or not to be, that is the question for Symantec's Hamlet 3. IBM puts application security in the limelight with its Watchfire acquisition 4. Endpoint Security suites or "Security Amalgamated" In our interview segment we talk with Mike and Michael about Mike's recent P-CSO Bootcamp.  Mike gives us insight into why he did it, what it is and what was learned.  Michael also gives his take and insights.  It is a great interview that we will continue with a follow up in the very near future. This week we have a new feature. Our friends from South Africa, Sensepost have a special offer for those who would like to attend their hacking classes at Black Hat this year.  Anyone who signs up for this offer can also pick up a StillSecure T-shirt by coming by our booth at Black Hat with proof of signing up for the course.  Please have a listen to this message and visit their site. 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!

Episode 40 of the podcast is here for your listening pleasure.  In this weeks episode Mitchell and I recap the week at Interop and some of the security news from the last week: Microsoft-TCG NAC interoperability Google-Green Border acquisition 10 Gbps switching and IPS . . . and more! In this weeks "The Converging Minute" Mitchell talks about the ecosystem building around Cobia with the Cobia partner program. This week we have a new feature. Our friends from South Africa, Sensepost have a special offer for those who would like to attend their hacking classes at Black Hat this year.  Anyone who signs up for this offer can also pick up a StillSecure T-shirt by coming by our booth at Black Hat with proof of signing up for the course.  Please have a listen to this message and visit their site. 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!

Episode 39 of StillSecure, After all these years podcast has two special guests.  Well known security expert, Tom Bowers is joined by Faizel Lakhani, VP of Products and Marketing at Reconnex (their bios are below).  The 4 of us discuss Data Leak Prevention (DLP).  It is a great discussion and we hope you will learn something about DLP. The interview starts about 10 minutes into the podcast. In this weeks The Converging Minute, Mitchell discusses multi-function devices and how you can use them for just one purpose if you like. In This Week in Security we discuss: 1. The formation of the OpenSEA consortium 2. The recent vulnerability found by Symantec in the Microsoft BITS protocol 3. Snort 3.0 licensing and the GPL 4. Corporate blogging policies If you like the content of these shows or have any other comments or questions, please drop us a line at podcast@stillsecure.comThanks 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!Guest Bios:Tom Bowers - President of Philadelphia InfraGard. Tom Bowers, who holds the CISSP, PMP and Certified Ethical Hacker certifications, is a well-known expert on the topics of data leakage prevention, global enterprise information security architecture and ethical hacking. He is also the president of the Philadelphia chapter of Infragard, the second largest chapter in the country with more than 600 members. Additionally, Bowers leads the independent think tank and industry analyst group *Security Constructs, LLC*. His areas of expertise include aligning business needs with security architecture, risk assessment and project management on a global scale. Bowers is a technical editor of Information Security magazine and a regular speaker at events like Information Security Decisions. Faizel Lakhani - Vice President of Products and Marketing Prior to joining Reconnex, Lakhani was Vice President of Marketing at ConSentry Networks, a leading LAN security company, responsible for the go to market plan as well as overall product strategy and direction. Prior to ConSentry, Lakhani was Vice President of Marketing at Caspian Networks, a flow-based routing company, where he was responsible for all aspects of marketing. Lakhani began his career at Nortel Networks holding a number of executive roles in marketing for new and emerging products.   Lakhani holds a Masters Degree In Engineering from Carelton University, an MBA from the University of Ottawa and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University.

Epidsode 38 features Eric Hines the CEO and founder of Applied Watch.  Applied Watch is a leader in the management of open source security tools.  Eric provides some great insight into starting a company without institutional investment and the current state and future of open source security technologies.  I think you will enjoy it!  Eric's interview starts about 15 minutes into the podcast. This weeks Converging Minute starts at about 2 minutes into the podcast and Mitchell discusses some interesting facts on Cobia and convergence. At about 5 or 6 minutes into the podcast is This Week in Security.  Mitchell and I discuss: 1. The recent quicktime vulnerability discovered at CanSec West 2. The college student who hacked the Cisco NAC appliance 3. Websense's acquisition of Surf Control If you like the content of these shows or have any other comments or questions, please drop us a line at podcast@stillsecure.com">podcast@stillsecure.com">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!

Mitchell and I have a special guest, Paul Congdon, CTO of HP ProCurve.  Paul drives a lot of ProCurve's vision, especially around security.  Paul and ProCurve recently announced some new products in network security.  Paul is a very interesting and nice guy and I think the interview is very interesting! In this weeks Converging Minute, Mitchell discusses a new SMB convergence box from Cisco. In This Week in Security, we discuss the recent Misfire by Sourcefire and the DNS vulnerability in Microsoft DNS servers. 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!

Episode 36 of the podcast has me interviewing Mitchell about Cobia.  For those who have not heard, Cobia is our Unified Network Platform (UNP), that we released this week in beta. Mitchell, who is the general manager for Cobia, tells us all about it. 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!

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!

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