02.12.10
This Week on ‘The Man Who Knew Everything’
The Paller-Scope’s unblinking gaze…
China was trying to show that “we care about keeping the Internet free of criminals and we are doing our part,” said Alan Paller, director of research at … –Datamation
China was seeking to say, “we care about keeping the Internet free of criminals and we are doing our part,” said Alan Paller, director of research at the … — Wall Street Journal
Alan Paller, who is the director of research at the SANS Institute, thinks the impact will be limited. “Sadly, the tack they [China] took is just a whack-a-mole exercise.” Paller added that other hackers will simply take their place.— FierceCIO
“The Internet is God’s gift to espionage,” says Alan Paller, who created NetWars and serves as its chief evangelist. “This is a skill we need Americans to have. But even more we need to find the ones who are already talented and make sure they’re working for the good guys.”
Twenty-one years ago Paller founded a cybersecurity school known as the Sans Institute. The for-profit school, in Bethesda, Md., has 110,000 alumni, most of whom have taken an intensive six-day course in data security. (Paller, 64, directs research at the institute.) — Forbes
To catch a thief, you must think like a thief – the best way to defend an asset is to get inside the head of the attacker and predict his actions.
That’s the opinion of Alan Paller, founder of the SANS Institute and creator of NetWars, an online cybersecurity simulation game in which contestants compete against each other by hacking into and controlling the game’s 12 servers, leaving their user name in them to prove they did it. — Help Net Security
“Predicting legislative action leads to lots of wrong answers,” Alan Paller, research director at SANS, said. “What I know is that Sen. Reid gave Sen. Lieberman the lead on cyber for this session of Congress. Rockefeller and Snow are much more tuned to the research and education initiatives, so they are likely to provide a big chunk of the content of the bill, and Carper’s work is also excellent and will help shape the ultimate bill.” — GovInfoSecurity
Cult of Cybersecurity — from the archives.