Show 040 – An Interview with Bob Blakley

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).

• Transcript of this episode [PDF]
• Ceci n’est pas un Bob – Bob’s blog
• CORBA Security: An Introduction to Safe Computing with Objects
• NDSS’98 Trust Management Panel: LE NOZZE DI NOMEN [PDF] – The NDSS “wedding script”
• “The Emperor’s Old Armor“
• Moving U.S. Cybersecurity Beyond Cyberplatitudes
• Perils in Nude Modeling

 

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4 Responses to “Show 040 – An Interview with Bob Blakley”

1. Gunnar Says:
   July 17th, 2009 at 3:46 pm

   Great interview.

   Bob pointed out his main gripe with Java’s security model which is how it treats fine grained authorization. It requires defining all of the policy up front, very difficult or impossible to do in real world. And it lacks layers of indirections that we can use to resolve when we don’t know a priori the full subject + object + session policies (i.e. most of the time). Bob opines that XACML and Claims may help resolve this, and I agree (if nothing else it represents our best current hope), but they didn’t drill down on this

   Bob or Gary – anything to add here?

2. Von Says:
   July 22nd, 2009 at 10:57 am

   Technical gripe on the podcast audio: I found the difference in volume between Gary and Bob so great that I was constantly having to adjust my volume in my car to understand Bob but not get blasted away by Gary.

   Don’t mean to just complain though. Really enjoy the podcasts and the mix of technical and non-technical questions.

3. rmacmich Says:
   July 22nd, 2009 at 11:03 am

   Von — This one was a particularly difficult one to level out due to a lot of background noise (and, therefore, the use of noise reduction) and level inconsistencies. Sorry it was a tough listen for you — hopefully past and future episodes aren’t so jarring.

   … Ryan

4. gem Says:
   July 22nd, 2009 at 11:06 am

   death to smileys.

   sorry for the technical difficulties on this one. we’re usually better and we will be again.

   gem

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