Author Archives: dshackleford

“That’s Too Hard” Syndrome

How many things DON’T we do because they’re “too hard”? For years, we’ve all thrown around “security best practices,” some of which are deeply embedded in the common infosec psyche ...

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What’s New is Old, Actually

So much like many geeks, I’m a packrat. And like any good obsessive personality type, I have some vaguely defined mental threshold where I need to go through a bunch ...

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What’s New is Old, Actually

So much like many geeks, I’m a packrat. And like any good obsessive personality type, I have some vaguely defined mental threshold where I need to go through a bunch ...

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Quick Thought: Monitoring Data Exfiltration to the Cloud

Truth be told, this thought was sparked by my friend Rob Rounsavall at Terremark while we were presenting at the SANS Virtualization and Cloud Computing Security Summit in DC last ...

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The 13th Requirement

Now, at long last and after much personal expense and toil, I am proud to bring to you the fabled 13th Requirement of PCI DSS. Long rumored to exist, I ...

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