Month: February 2018

Global Diversity CFP Day—Brighton edition

Global Diversity CFP Day—Brighton edition (adactio.com)

The purpose is two-fold. One is to encourage a diverse range of people to submit talk proposals to conferences. The other is to help with the specifics—coming with ideas, writing a good title and abstract, preparing the presentation, and all that.

But ... looking at those locations, I want to ask, is it diverse enough? Looking at the list of cities in the USA, I see the same set of places — large cities on the East and West coast dominated by financial and tech industries. Given what I think we learned about our country from the 2106 presidential election, the middle of the country doesn’t feel like their voices are being heard.

BeyondCorp: A New Approach to Enterprise Security

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! I think is a continuation of the work the Jericho Forum123 was doing back in the early mid 00’s when talking about perimeter-less networks and open-network environments. I think Google is doing some fascinating and useful work here and they are self-dog fooding. I expect they have all the data to prove their point of view. I'm doubtful that many CISO are ready to embrace this and even if they are, maybe reluctant to bring it before their organizations's board.

  1. The Jericho Forum, April 2006. Architecture for De-perimeterisation. Retrieved April 2007, from The Jericho Forum ↩
  2. The Jericho Forum, January 2007. Business Rationale for De-perimeterisation. Retrieved April 2007, from The Jericho Forum ↩
  3. Simmonds, P. (2004, July 28-29). This Decade's Security Challenge. Retrieved August 2007, from Blackhat Las Vegas 2004 ↩