Global Data Geeks, Blalock Interview →
It's Cloudy Out There...
Chad Woolf, writing at the AWS Security Blog, announces the availability of the CIS AWS Foundation Benchmark. Outstanding.
Image by Padurariu Alexandru
Lapham's Inspection →
Lewis Lapham's eponymous essay targeting the Surveilling of America, 'Open to Inspection delineates the highly unfortunate state of affairs we now find ourselves in... Lapham is at his best in this work, and in typically erudite fashion, provides a strikingly lucid view on pervasive surveillance in the Home of the Free, and Land of the Brave. Quite likely, this weeks' most portentious read. Carry On, That Is All.
IoT, Not Your BFF
Chess for Security Leadership
One of the better posts to the Tripwire blog came to my undeniably busy attention today. A must read for afficanados of leadership lessons in the security space (and any other space, for that matter), as it were. Enjoy.
Martinez, The Top Ten
XKCD, Gravitational Waves →
via the inimitable Randall Munroe at XKCD.
Gravitational Waves Detected at LIGO →
Likely, the single most important discovery in this generation. Simply Astonishing.
"Now for the first time, scientists in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration — with a prominent role played by researchers at MIT and Caltech — have directly observed the ripples of gravitational waves in an instrument on Earth. In so doing, they have again dramatically confirmed Einstein’s theory of general relativity and opened up a new way in which to view the universe. But there’s more: The scientists have also decoded the gravitational wave signal and determined its source. According to their calculations, the gravitational wave is the product of a collision between two massive black holes, 1.3 billion light years away — a remarkably extreme event that has not been observed until now." - by Jennifer Chu writing for the MIT News Office, published via the web at MIT News
Data Mining and Link Analysis - A Tale of Best Practice →
ISOC President Slated to Speak At UN
Internet Society President and CEO Kathy Brown slated to speak at UN Headquarters in New York on Thursday, February 11, 2016, between 11:40 and 13:00 US Eastern time (UTC-5) as a component part of the International Day of Women & Girls in Science.
RFID, The Un-Hackable... →
Norse Non-OPs,
TAO of Joyce →
Rob Joyce, that is... via Kim Zetter's superlative screed at Wired, comes this stand-up tale of Joyce's Tao, more commonly known as the United States National Security Agency Tailored Access Operations.
Dr. Valiant's Most Excellent Biological Compute Infrastructure →
via Quanta Magazine, come this not surprising theory, constructed by Leslie Valiant, Ph.D., stating that the biological world, of which we are a component, is computational at it's core. Today's Must Read, as I am fond of saying "All Is Information'.