Archive for August, 2006

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Ross Anderson‘s excellent book, Security Engineering, is now online and free, as in beer.

Highly recommended reading.

Average Rating: 4.5 out of 5 based on 174 user reviews.

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

The Liberty Alliance will present the IDentity Deployment of the Year Award (IDDY, pronounced EYE-D) before the keynote at the DIDW (DigitalID World) conference this September. The announcement and nomination page is here…

IDentity Deployment of the Year Award

This sounds like a good idea to not only promote the “online identity” topic itself, but also spread some recognition for the folks who do the usually behind-the-scenes deployment work.

Average Rating: 4.8 out of 5 based on 217 user reviews.

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

The thoughtful Roger Sullivan makes his blogosphere appearance..

From the desk of Roger Sullivan…

Welcome Roger!

Average Rating: 4.7 out of 5 based on 161 user reviews.

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

Ross Anderson, a founder of the field of Security Economics, who previously maintained an old-school homepage as his “blog” (similar to what I also used to do, though he did/does a way better job), is now blogging on his U of Cambridge Security Research group’s blog..

Light Blue Touchpaper

It, and Ross’ other web pages and publications (notably his book Security Engineering), are all Highly Recommended Reading.

Average Rating: 4.6 out of 5 based on 226 user reviews.

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

The inimitable Conor Cahill has succumbed to peer pressure and is now blogging…

Conor’s Web Log of Esoterica

Welcome Conor 🙂

Average Rating: 4.5 out of 5 based on 295 user reviews.