Fred Wilson over at AVC.com wrote a piece on the Etsy offices (in 2010) titled: “The office matters” In it he explained how “They are getting the best talent in NYC to come to their company” and commented on the importance of paying “attention to the office and the culture” of a company. Around the same time I had written a piece titled “Cargo Cult Startups” in which i posited that too many companies were faking startup culture, keeping draconian …
Year: 2012
A little while back, a colleague of a colleague approached me with a favour request that was hard to refuse (no, not that kind…) They had one of these external harddrives that supports on-drive encryption and, as you will have guessed, had forgotten the password. No more saved business docs, but also no more saved baby pics. “Could we have a look?”, they asked. A brief search online revealed companies who claim to be able to recover passwords for these …
In 2009 I wrote a post on recruiting and mentioned “the T-shirt Test“. It read: The T-Shirt test is simply to ask yourself: “how will i feel standing at a conference, with this guy next to me wearing my company T-Shirt”. If you don’t like the thought, you shouldn’t make the hire. I still feel strongly about the T-Shirt test, and feel really strongly about the importance of company culture which makes it crazily cool to officially welcome Marco Slaviero …
Early last year we presented at 44con with a talk titled: “Penetration Testing considered harmful today“. 44con have just released the video so we figured it was worth a quick recap (for anyone not willing to tolerate the whiny voice!) The original slides (in PDF) are available (here) The central thesis of the talk is that penetration testing has established itself as a necessary activity for securing a network and is now pushed forward by a multi million dollar industry despite …
(This talk was given at 44Con in London (2010)) Brief details on it can be found here. The point of the next four slides is merely to establish some sort of credibility. Essentially it’s to try and establish that when I talk about pen testing, I do actually have some background in it. This is the central thesis of the talk, and I’ll try to explain why I believe this is true.. In 2010 we wrote a blog post titled …