I’d like to take this opportunity, as any good host would do, and welcome you to my guest blog for the month of August. For the next four weeks or so, I’ll try and take you on a journey into my InfoSec-centric mind; sharing my research, views, fascinations, and decisions.
Rather than focus on my past careers, I’ll quickly touch upon my current tenure (so I can get to the primary reason I’m here – blogging). I’m the Director of Security and Privacy Officer at the industry’s largest independently owned provider of onsite healthcare clinics. My ‘security plate’ deals with a multitude of corporate security topics ranging from physical surveillance, intrusion forensic analysis, red/gold contract review, and internal policies. As such, you can expect my blogs to pull from a wide spectrum of security subjects from concepts, theories, products, and regulations just to name a few possibilities.
And finally, I thought it’d be a nice change of pace to take a different approach to better e-introduce myself and answer Lipton’s questions. James Lipton is a host of a show here in the US called “Inside the Actors Studio Guild”, basically an unedited raw industry Q&A with mainstream actors/actresses. At the end of each show, Mr. Lipton asks the guest the same series of questions…
1. What is your favorite word(s)?
Downstream risk mitigated
2. What is your least favorite word(s)?
Confirmed breach
3. What turns you on?
Innovation
4. What turns you off?
‘Paper firedrills’
5. What is your favorite curse word?
Microsoft! haha
6. What sound or noise do you love?
The simultaneous “hum” servers make in a data farm. Walking into our datacenter still gives me chills!
7. What sound or noise do you hate?
…any syllable, word, grunt, sound or noise of a sales pitch!
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Photography or culinary.
9. What profession would you not like to attempt?
Microsoft datacenter support.
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
“You made a difference.”
Let the blogging begin…
Ryan Trost, author of Practical Intrusion Analysis, is the Director of Security and Data Privacy Officer at the industry’s largest independent provider of onsite health centers, where he oversees all the organization's security and privacy decisions. He teaches several InfoSec courses, including Ethical Hacking, Intrusion Detection and Data Visualization at NVCC. Ryan constantly works to cross-pollinate and enhance network security, GIS and data visualization. He is considered a leading expert in geospatial intrusion detection techniques and has spoken at several conferences, most notably DEFCON and SANS. Ryan has been a senior security consultant for several government agencies before transitioning over to the private sector. In 2005, Ryan received his MS degree in Computer Science from George Washington University where he developed his first geospatial intrusion detection tool.
Practical Intrusion Analysis:Prevention and Detection for the Twenty-First Century by Ryan Trost has been selected as the August, 2009, Cisco Subnet book giveaway (a $54.99 value). Visit the Cisco Subnet home page for giveaway details and entry forms.
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