The moat and the Maginot Line
David von Vistauxx
Topic: Security
Audience: All audiences
Description:
The French have contributed a great deal to the way the western mind thinks about the issues of security.
They brought us both the moat and the Maginot line.
One worked, one didn't.
The one that worked only worked for a period of time.
One was inexpensive, one was expensive.
One was triple redundant, one stood alone.
Both were of similar engineering - they were both ditches in the ground. One started as a wet basement, one was a complex engineering by one of the best French minds of his age.
The first - expensive, triple redundant, complex engineering.
The second - inexpensive, singular, and really just a wet basement.
The second - the moat -- worked.
The first - the Maginot line -- didn't.
In this talk we will concern ourselves with Infrastructure security issues and how they are affected by the current trends in technology and thinking.
Prerequisites:
Have an open mind
History:
1999 January COMSEC 99
American Society for Information Security
Washington DC
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2002 April
International Association of Private Security Consultants Annual Mtg.
Atlanta GA
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2002 July
GOVSEC 2002
Washington, D. C.
Last change: Sep 16, 2006 04:17:41 PM
The Speaker: David von Vistauxx
Contact Organization: Vistauxx, Ltd.
Location: Jessup, Maryland
Phone: 301-317-9000 x 4007
Email: superman@xrayvision.com
Website: http://vistauxx.com
Will travel: Anywhere
Payment required: Fees + Travel
Compensation required: 4800 per day
Bio:
David von Vistauxx
David von Vistauxx is Chairman (Emeritus) of American Communications & Computation, Inc. and is a practitioner of the black arts of computing. He has been practicing in the area of computer systems infrastructure and security since the late ?60?s. He holds an Extra Class Amateur Radio Certificate. His clients include US Government Agencies as well as the governments of Jamaica and the Former Soviet Union. He has been an invited speaker at several international symposia including the American Society for Industrial Security, the Public Relations Society of America, the TransNational Crime and Corruption Conference, and the International Association of Private Security Consultants.
When not traveling internationally on business he uses his spare time to work on the Secure Linux Kernel and writing device drivers for both Unix and Linux. Still under 55 and always in blue jeans and a corporate tee shirt he is on the boards of directors of several organizations including the publically traded Internet Growth Fund (AMEX:FND).
Posted: Mar 21, 2007 07:31:12 AM; Last change: Mar 21, 2007 08:32:02 AM
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