Greg Young

Day 2 is done and one day to go.  It actually is the third day if you count the Sunday afternoon tutorials as part of the event, but all true code-geeks start counting with with zero so it is still Day 2, or day 10 in binary, or …
I don’t have photos of the sessions, [...]

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In photos for all of you visual types:

A full house for the opening sessions with about 1200 attendees.  Chris Byrnes and John Pescatore.  I paraphrase John’s rhetorical "If you have to choose between the Captain of the Ship or the guy running the engine: which would you keep to ensure the ship keeps moving?  [...]

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We opened the 15th annual Gartner Security Summit near Washington, DC with about 1200 attendees.
Adam Hils and I co-presented a tutorial yesterday on the Security Business Opportunities for SMB security.  It turned out that most of the attendees were from security vendors, so we adjusted some of the material in mid-stream to present [...]

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The 15th annual Gartner Security Summit is off to a great start with high attendance and some new things.  I hosted the first Security Summit Tweet-and-Meet last night.  The informal meet saw attendees who are active in using social media, about 10 Gartner analysts, new media, and several of the high profile security bloggers and [...]

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Things I will have to explain to my 5 year old son in time:

Group photos.  These seemed to end when we stopped working in offices.  I miss group photos.  The rigid hierarchies I don’t.
Disks and diskettes.  Although we seem just as good as losing thumb-drives.  Try losing an 8 inch floppy.
That box of parallel cables
When [...]

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I’m going to host an informal meetup of bloggers and tweeters on the Sunday evening at the start of the Gartner Security Summit.  Meetup at the National Pastime Sports Bar and Grill at the Gaylord National Hotel after 7:30pm on June 28th.  And I may tell you my joke about the 3 guys who want [...]

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The Government of Canada introduced legislation for increased monitoring of Internet communication in Canada.
The "Investigative Powers for the 21st Century (IP21C) Act"’s primary obligation appears to be for ISPs to gather and keep tracking information akin to phone records – who contacted who.  Wisely, the act appears to avoid mandating that message contents be archived.  [...]

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