Rational Survivability

Yesterday I met up with Alan Shimel, StillSecure’s
Chief Strategy Officer.  I’ve known about StillSecure’s excellent
products for some time now, but I frequently read Alan’s blog and
decided that we should meet. 

Alan’s a fascinating guy, the sort of fellow that one becomes
instantly comfortable with.  You can tell he’s been through the
security sausage grinder and come out decently unscathed but with
wisdom, patience and a distilled kindness that this sort of experience
brings.

At lunch we had one of those conversations that became animated
enough that the verbal game of ping-pong encompassing the collective
turets-style outbursts of our past lives caused both of us to interject
comment after comment — even when stuffing our faces with Italian food
😉

It was truly excellent being able to sit down with someone who
really gets it and isn’t afraid to (agree to) disagree.  We seem to
share a great many views on perspectives that run the gamut of the
security panorama and it was great to meet another someone from the
blogosphere like Alan with whom I could bond intellectually.  I’ve met
some other fantastic opinionati like Mike Rothman and Pete Lindstrom under similar circumstances…you should most definitely read their blogs.

After meeting with Alan, I became inspired to retire my previous
neglected blog-bortion and commit to a full-frontal assault using
TypePad which provides a much better canvas for this sort of thing.

I’ll move a couple of entries over just for continuity’s sake.

Off to the Gartner IT Security Summit in DC from the 6th to the
8th…Crossbeam is sponsoring another amazing evening social event in
conjunction with our buddies from SourceFire.  eMail/phone me for
details.

Looking forward to more bloggage.

Chris