Beyond the Perimeter Podcast Series Episode 74: "Security BSides"

BEYOND THE PERIMETER PODCAST SERIES EPISODE 74:

“SECURITY BSIDES”

Emeryville, Calif.— February 24, 2010

News Facts

  • In the most recent episode of Beyond the Perimeter, “Security BSides,” Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, speaks with Andrew Hay, author, blogger, and security strongman, on an opportunity for the industry to get exposed to emerging IT security thought leaders that may not otherwise have a chance to share their ideas.
  • Key words include: security b-sides, security conferences.

Background and Context

  • Beyond the Perimeter is an interview-style podcast series that began publishing in February 2009, hosted by BigFix, Inc., CTO Amrit Williams.
  • Beyond the Perimeter guests include luminaries and decision makers with expertise in enterprise information technology, computer security, system management and IT best practices. The content expressed on Beyond the Perimeter is the sole responsibility of the respective speakers and do not reflect the views of BigFix, Inc.
  • Amrit Williams has held a variety of engineering, management and consulting positions in the IT industry including research director in the Information Security and Risk Research Practice at Gartner, Inc. and engineering/management positions at nCircle Network Security, Consilient Inc., Network Associates, and McAfee. Williams is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Episode #74 Notable Quotes from Andrew Hay

  • “[The idea for the presentation, ‘My Life on the Infosec D-List,’ came about when] Anton Chuvakin and I were talking about celebrity status in our industry and how 80 to 90 percent of us are all on this D-List. We’re just trying to break into security. We don't know how to do it. We just know we want it. It's kind of like a Google Wave invite. You don't know why you want it, but you want it because everyone else wants it.”
  • “’My Life on the Infosec D-List’ is [about] the steps I took to get to my mediocre stardom [in the security industry].”
  • “At RSA, a guy came up to me and said, ‘Oh, wow, you’re Andrew Hay.’ He shook my hand and said, ‘Wow, I bought your OSSEC book… I’m telling all my friends about it.’ It meant a lot to me that someone came up and immediately recognized me…[It means people] are associating things that I do—my blog, the books I've written—with my name…Hence, what I want to talk about in my presentation is: what steps did I take to kind of increase my exposure in our huge [security] circle.”
  •  “[To vote for ‘My Life on the Infosec D-List,’] you can either email to info@securitybsides.com and say that you want to hear my talk, or on Twitter you can type ‘I vote for “My Life on the Infosec D-List” by @andrewsmhay’ and then the #BSidesSF hashtag.”

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