Alex Hutton

Aug 16

Server Upgrade -

So our server was upgraded by our hosting provider.  Unfortunately, in the upgrade, a comment from Christian was lost amidst the shuffle. Sorry Christian!

Please take a second and verify your RSS…

Aug 15

Is Your Firewall a “High Risk Entity” - Not trying to be overly snarky here, but I was reviewing some GRC product literature recently.  And there was a screenshot of an application window showing how the software helps identify “high risk…

Aug 13

UPDATES GALORE! or, THE PRONOUN “WE” MEANS YOU AND ME! -

So much traveling, so little blogging.  Sorry everyone.  I’ve gotta say first that I really enjoyed meeting readers and friends of the blog this past two weeks.

Today, allow me to update you on…

Aug 01

New Weblog - It’s Gonna Be Good: Risktical.Com -

From Chris Hayes at http://risktical.com/.

I have the utmost respect for Chris as a risk analyst.  He’s big in (started?) the Columbus OWASP chapter (and I have to admit to not getting to a…

Jul 30

Mathematicians, The French, & Risk Analysts

Goethe: “Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.”

Jul 29

Reminder: WebEx Seminar on Risk Analysis - Hey everybody!  Quick post this morning to remind you guys that Cisco has been kind enough to let us give a follow on WebEx presentation on  July 31, 2008 at 11:30 a.m. EDT.  The link to sign up is

Jul 27

A POEM FOR PEDRO PEPPER
If I can misapply quantum theory in all sorts of wonderful ways…
There is a non-zero chance that somewhere, sometime in this wonderful, wonderful multi-verse,
Pedro Pepper is revered and well-loved.  Just showing that life really is as bizarre and wonderful as a Douglas Adams novel - we’re just used to it by now.

A POEM FOR PEDRO PEPPER

If I can misapply quantum theory in all sorts of wonderful ways…

There is a non-zero chance that somewhere, sometime in this wonderful, wonderful multi-verse,

Pedro Pepper is revered and well-loved.  Just showing that life really is as bizarre and wonderful as a Douglas Adams novel - we’re just used to it by now.

Jul 23

Perspective on GRC -

From some comments Dwayne made on yesterday’s post.

IT- GRC is just threat / vulnerability pairing when you consider external regulatory compliance pressures as the Threat Community.  If you think…

Jul 22

(Not Really) Stateful IT-GRC Inspecting Threat Management At Gigabit Speeds -

A friend of the blog recently pointed me to an article that used the term:

“PCI Risk Management”

Now usually when I see a term like this, I can only imagine that such things are the byproduct…

Jul 21

Charles Eames interview in 1956 Video