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Cybersecurity

Upcoming talks

Here’s some of the talks and events I’ll be at over the next few months: Billington 10th Annual Cybersecurity Summit September 4-5 2019 Washington DC Hacker Halted (Keynote) October 10-11 2019 Georgia, Atlanta

bugcrowd

My DEF CON/Vegas moves

It has been an amazing week so far, but as we drop from “suite and wingtips” mode to “hoodie and sneakers” mode I’d still love to connect with as many folks as I can… Here are my approximate moves for the rest of the week – If you see me

Cybersecurity

Practical prepping for Hacker Summer Camp

Here are some last-minute security and general “staying vertical” notes I shared with a few folks who are headed to B-Sides/Diana/Queercon/Blackhat/DEF CON. There are lots of other posts on Vegas survival, and I’ll post a list of them in a little bit… This one is

Cybersecurity

7 Years and counting…

In 2012, Bugcrowd set out to create a radical cybersecurity advantage and level the playing field between attackers and defenders. As one of the first steps on that journey, seven years ago today, we launched our first “Proof of Concept” bug bounty, offering up a total reward pool of $500

Cybersecurity

My moves during the RSAC/BSides SF circus

Quick post re where I’ll be speaking and attending while the infosec/cyberz are in town for RSA Conference and B-Sides: ps all of the Bugcrowd parties, workshops, and meetups are listed here. If you want to attend Mayhem, make sure you sign up!!! It’s getting to be

risk-management

Managing smart device risk: A "how-to" for the average human.

I’m going to provide a practical, ubiquitous, and risk/benefit focussed version of the advice in the tweet, aimed at the average Internet citizen who wants to take advantage of these technologies, while understanding how they can minimize the risks that come with their use.

business-strategy

Firing your clients

This concept is pushed pretty hard in Tim Ferriss’ book the 4-Hour Work Week as well… In a nutshell – you don’t want EVERYONE to be your client. You only want the GOOD clients. There’s no point having a great margin, smooth processes, and efficiency and profitability baked into

mindset

Bricks and Pyramids

QOTD: You have to build the bricks before you can build the Pyramids.

mindset

Mastering the mundane

I live a pretty frenetic and busy life both activity-wise and mentally. Some of this is environmental, most of this is my own making, and almost all of it I love… But it’s important to be reminded to appreciate the simple and sometimes boring things too.

bugcrowd

Happy 6th Birthday @bugcrowd

6 years ago today I got off a plane armed with a bunch of notes. I’d spent a week meeting with pen-testing customers in Melbourne, and I’d been talking to them about bug bounty programs. These conversations and a set of ideas I’d been noodling on for

Cybersecurity

Making noise

“We had a problem with a few needles, and as an industry decided that the best thing to do was to drop a haystack on them.” This is definitely QOTD from an old cybersecurity industry friend over lunch today. It sums up the current information overload problem for those on

Cybersecurity

What's in a name? Defining "hacker" in 2018

If you do a Google Image Search against the word hacker, you’ll get images of scary-looking balaclava-clad cybercriminals hunched over a quintessentially green computer terminal. They’re up to no good… Stealing your data, crashing critical systems, or causing general Internet badness. In reality, the word “hacker” applies to