December 2011
4 posts
My Experience With LPTHW
I’ve been meaning to get my hands dirty with Python for a while and finally found the motivation to go through Learn Python the Hard Way over the holidays. I knew going into it that it wasn’t necessarily the he best way to ramp up on the language for someone with years of development experience, but it was a vacation week and I didn’t want anything too intense. Plus, the simple...
The MITx Revolution
On the first day of Christmas MIT gave to me… oh, whatever. MIT did give us all something though. The school recently announced MITx, which will start offering free online courses, and for a fee a certificate of completion. There’s a lot of action in the online/higher-ed space at the moment with many major universities putting up courses for free, including MIT. These are fantastic...
CISSP Download
I woke up at 5:30 am yesterday to get ready for my two hour drive to Norwood, MA — the closest location (ISC)2 offers for sitting for the CISSP exam. I had to be there by 8:00 am. Check-in at 8:00 am; receive instructions at 8:30 am; and then start the exam 9:00 am. Six exhausted hours later I was done and ready for my two hour drive home. Why did I sign up for this again? This was probably...
Privacy Professional ≠ Infosec Professional
We’ve experience over 30 million records breached already this year in the US alone. That’s an incredible number. Sloppy security is usually the culprit and this is well known and documented as evidenced by executives all around the world are throwing money at the problem. However, there is a kissing-cousin to this problem that seems to be getting the governments attention but...
