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		<title>Follow up: Ed Giorgio Responds to Questions from House Committee on Science and Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
Planning for the Future of Cyber Attack Attribution
On August 17, 2010 Mr. Giorgio responded to various follow-up questions (re: his testimony from July 2010) from members of the House of Representatives Committee for Planning for the Future of Cyber Attack Attribution. 
Questions for the Record from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pontetec.com/?p=434</link>
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		<title>Ed Giorgio Testifies before the House on Planning for the Future of Cyber Attack Attribution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Planning for the Future of Cyber Attack Attribution
On July 16, 2010, Mr. Giorgio testified before the subcommittee on Technology and Innovation on the subject of &#8216;Planning for the Future of Cyber Attack Attribution&#8217;.
For the complete webcast click here
To download Mr. Giorgio&#8217;s testimony, click here
Mr. Giorgio&#8217;s Testimony
Let me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pontetec.com/?p=407</link>
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		<title>Test Driven Development (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first of a three part blog series about writing code using the relatively new programming technique: Test Driven Development (TDD). These blog posts will cover the basics of TDD, benefits, drawbacks, examples of implementation, and finally how it can be used to more effectively create secure code.
Languages
I’ll be using Python to implement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pontetec.com/?p=386</link>
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		<title>The Myth of Data Security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Information Age. We currently produce,  and have ready access to, more information than has ever existed in our  history. Information of all sorts is readily available to anyone, at any  time, from a multitude of sources. Even in the face of this wealth of  information, however, there exist pockets of data that you just can't  have.

We all have  secrets. If you're a business, an agency, a bureau, or a organization,  you probably have a particular set of bits somewhere that – when taken  as a set and interpreted as data – represent some fact or set of facts  that you are very important to you. Maybe you call it proprietary  information; maybe you call it business critical data. Maybe you call it  secret, and use a grading system to determine exactly how secret it is.  Regardless, you want to make sure that you always have that data, and  you want to make sure that someone else doesn't have it.

Here's the problem: if that  information is valuable to someone else, they probably already have at  least some part of it. They certainly know more about your secrets than  you want them to know, and none of your firewalls, intrusion detection  systems, or security policies are going to keep them from learning more...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pontetec.com/?p=318</link>
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		<title>Time for High Assurance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For more than 40 years, computer scientists have researched mechanisms to make software systems more secure. From cryptographically assure boot processes to process segregation to capabilities-based operating systems, there are many fantastic concepts that modern day engineers could leverage to build higher assurance systems. Unfortunately, most of the attempts to apply these concepts have resulted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pontetec.com/?p=181</link>
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		<title>Living with Game Servers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every day, security professionals do battle the trenches; good vs. evil, whitehats vs. blackhats, our network vs their l337 tools. And what do we do to unwind after work? For many of us, it&#8217;s doing battle in the trenches with terrorists, Nazi&#8217;s, and that pesky Blue team that keeps stealing our intelligence.
Video games are a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pontetec.com/?p=164</link>
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		<title>Dirty Secrets of the Security Industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fox is guarding the hen house, and both the fox and the hens are making a lot of money in the process. Such is the state of the security industry in 2008. For the last 15 years, we have been building security into our networks and applications using concepts like “defense in depth” and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pontetec.com/?p=162</link>
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		<title>Nework Authentication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, we have treated wired and wireless authentication as two different issues; wireless authentication was complicated and not scalable and wired authentication was non-existent.  However, with the increase of threats due to bots and spearphishing, wired authentication is gaining popularity.  At the same time, wireless authentication is stabilizing and more systems are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pontetec.com/?p=160</link>
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		<title>Automation techniques using SCAP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a large enterprise, efficiency of security processes is as important as the effectiveness of those processes.  Automation of these processes is a key aspect in running a successful IT security organization.  This whitepaper examines automation techniques including the use of the SCAP suite of protocols.
Get the whitepaper here
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		<link>http://www.pontetec.com/?p=154</link>
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