January 27th, 2010
On the bonus-length 46th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary talks with David Rice, Executive Director of the Monterey Group and author of Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software. Gary and David discuss David’s involvement with Infowar at the Naval Postgraduate School and how it impacted his thinking about software, the recent Chinese cyberattack on Google, what incentives exist to create and apply software security best practices, how users may be mistaking marketing for security, and the SANS WhatWorks in Application Security Summit. They close out by discussing unusual yoga positions.
Show 046 - An Interview with David Rice [36:06m]:
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December 18th, 2009
On the 45th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary chats with Lorrie Cranor, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Melon University. Gary and Lorrie discuss how everyday people think about privacy and what we can do to get them to care about it, the relationship between trust and privacy, and why the US is lagging behind the EU on privacy-related issues. They close out the discussion by talking about women in computing.
Show 045 - An Interview with Lorrie Cranor [26:51m]:
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November 25th, 2009
On the 44th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary talks with Steve Kent, Chief Scientist – Information Security, for BBN Technologies, a division of Raytheon. Gary and Steve discuss the history of network security, secure transport and base Internet protocols, the role of politics in the adoption of security on the Internet, applied cryptography, and whether security and individual liberty co-exist. They finish by discussing extremely high end wine.
Show 044 - An Interview with Steve Kent [32:29m]:
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October 21st, 2009
On the 43rd episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary chats with Christofer Hoff, Director of Cloud and Virtualization Solutions at Cisco. Hoff is well known for his colorful blog posts and presentations on cloud security and other complex security issues. Suffice it to say, the cloud was a big topic for this issue. And rum.
Show 043 - An Interview with Christofer Hoff [31:56m]:
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September 25th, 2009
On the 42nd episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary chats with Gillian Hayes, Assistant Professor in Informatics at the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine. Gary and Gillian discuss how much people really need to know about security going on behind the scenes, how usability affects the health records security, whether or not surveillance changes how 20-somethings act in public (including on the net), and how having more women technologists positively impacts the humanization of technology.
Show 042 - An Interview with Gillian Hayes [30:51m]:
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August 21st, 2009
On the 41st episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary talks with Fred Schneider, Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and author of Trust in Cyberspace. On the show, Gary and Fred discuss the relationship between security and reliability, diversity as a security mechanism, and the continuum of attack categories from configuration problems, to bugs, to flaws, to trust issues. Fred briefly discusses Pointillism at the end of the show.
Show 041 - An Interview with Fred Schneider [31:51m]:
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July 17th, 2009
For the 40th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary interviews Bob Blakley, VP and research director of The Burton Group’s Identity and Privacy Strategies. Gary and Bob discuss the importance of liberal arts degrees, the (over) complications of CORBA security, whether computer security requires a complete shift in approach, cybersecurity and governments, and the movie Perils in Nude Modeling (really).
Show 040 - An Interview with Bob Blakley [25:48m]:
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June 17th, 2009
For the 39th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary chats with Matt Blaze, Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Gary and Matt start the show off discussing the Obama administration’s “cyber coordinator” plan and the large number of cyber plans that are never cyber realized. They also discuss key escrow, warrantless wiretapping, the responsibility we have to stay engaged with issues surrounding individual liberty and privacy, and the similarities between physical locks and computer security. Matt’s musical tastes are also briefly touched on.
Show 039 - An Interview with Matt Blaze [32:36m]:
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May 19th, 2009
For the 38th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary talks privacy with Kay Connelly, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University and Senior Associate Director of IU’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. Gary and Kay discuss why in situ usability study is important, the E.T.H.O.S. living lab (including the “presence clock” and the portal monitor), and Kay’s advice to women interested in pursuing a career in computer science.
Show 038 - An Interview with Kay Connelly [25:14m]:
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April 21st, 2009
On the 37th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary interviews Virgil Gligor, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and co-director of CyLab. Gary and Virgil discuss how information security has changed over the last 35 years, why software security will be with us forever, and how Virgil’s childhood in Romania has shaped his views on security. They close out with a discussion of Virgil’s breakfast-eating habits.
Show 037 - An Interview with Virgil Gligor [27:10m]:
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