Dan Geer on the Dangers of Computer-Only Systems

A good warning, delivered in classic Dan Geer style...

Dan Geer: Cybersecurity, Humanity's Future "Conjoined"

Given the intertwinement of technology with communication, politics, economies and overall human progress, it seems to go hand-in-hand that cybersecurity must be elevated in parallel. Dan Geer, considered atop the food chain of security thinkers, said during last week’s Source Boston conference...

Black Hat News Wrap Podcast

Dennis Fisher, Mike Mimoso and Brian Donohue discuss the news from day one of Black Hat, including the Dan Geer keynote, attacks on mobile broadband modems and carriers’ control of mobile phones. Download: Black-Hat-Day-One-Podcast.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Security Metrics Go Prime Time at Metricon 6

The metrics movement that has been slowly but surely infiltrating the security community in the last few years has had its own annual gathering–Metricon–for some time now. It’s been a small, quasi-academic conference since its inception, but now Metricon’s organizers are branching out a bit,...

Dan Geer, In-Q-Tel

Anyone who has ever had a single conversation with Dan, or even seen him speak, will understand immediately why he’s on this list. Dan’s as smart as they come he has a Ph.D. in biostatistics! and his widely varied background gives him a truly unique perspective on security issues. His talks and...

The All-Decade Interview Team

It occurred to me recently that I’ve been covering the security industry for just about 10 years. That’s a long time to be doing anything, and especially to be writing about one topic. But it’s hard to think of something that would have been much more interesting to cover this decade, given the...

Dan Geer: Risk management should change the future

By Joan Goodchild, CSO “The dean of the security deep thinkers,” “security luminary, ” and “risk-management pioneer” are all phrases that have been used to describe Dan Geer. Considered one of the foremost leaders in information security, his resume includes time as president and chief scientist ...