Sometimes the best way of trying to do something or explain what you want to do is to give it some analysis. Let's take a look at "Information Security" for a little bit today and see what that means to practitioners and companies at this point in time (2010). First lets start with a trip in the way back machine - Set the way back to 1999! 1999 - The Internet (although not officially new) is "new" to many people and businesses as corporate America and the world begins a love affair with e-mail, "the web", and all things Inter/net/web. Speed and cool whiz-bang ideas are all the rage, few people care or think to care about the risks associated with allowing everyone to see/access most everything. The only folks who are concerned are mostly government officials, people with law enforcement mentalities/backgrounds, and paranoid sysadmins who have been fighting to preserve their systems for years. In 1999 if you asked "what does Information Security...
Ideas, tips, tricks, and theory on Information Security, risk management, forensics, and e-discovery.