Fortify held its semi-annual Technical Advisory Board (TAB) meeting two weeks ago in Tiburon California. We tried a few things at this meeting that we hadn't done before.
First, we invited a few reporters to join us for lunch. Dan Farber from zdnet and Joris Evers from cNet came up from San Francisco to eat with us. I have to say, I was a little nervous about it. Our Technical Advisory Board is is full of outspoken individuals. That's great when you're trying to get feedback on your plans and ideas, but it makes for a raucous, contentious, sometimes searingly critical room. What happens when you throw a few reporters into the mix?
Amazingly enough, good things happen. Dan Farber wrote an article about our lunch time discussion. Dan is not a security guy per-se, so much of the conversation was about the nature of the software security problem. I was particularly happy to get this kind of article in a "mainstream" tech site.
Link
Second, we recorded an episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast. It came out really well! We got a lot of different security topics into a 20 minute show.
Link
TAB members in attendance were:
Marcus Ranum
Gary McGraw
Fred Schneider
Li Gong
Matt Bishop
David Wagner
Greg Morrisett
Bill Pugh
Avi Rubin
Comments (1)
That's awesome, sorry I couldn't be there to plan it for you guys this year. Please give Gary and the team my regards :)
-SU
Posted by Stephanie (formerly Tranchina) Urmeneta | February 27, 2007 4:01 PM
Posted on February 27, 2007 16:01