Just a tiny update to check that everyone had a fantastic Christmas and New Years break, and that everything is back to normal. I’ve done a little bit of housecleaning around here, changed to a new theme and removed my delicious links from the side bar. The truth is, since it’s become trivial to “Note in Reader”, there just isn’t any reason to use delicious any more.

The other thing that I’ve been finding myself use more and more each day is Twitter. I’ve been using the service since April last year and I still find myself using it. I’m limited in my use of the service during working hours, but I still find it a valuable tool to get a quick “feel” of the security industry and also it’s great at asking short questions to a very wide audience. You can twit me at @xntrik.

What’s coming up for Christian?
I’m organising a presentation for Perth’s AISA slash OWASP on security in the SDLC focusing on threat modelling. I’m hoping to provide an overview of a few methodologies being advertised by the industry for securing the SDLC, including MS’ SDL and OWASP’s own CLASP. The threat modelling section will probably focus on a more interactive session with the audience walking through a simple threat model scenario. The target audience I’m hoping for is developers, of course the room will probably be majority security folks. Ah well, hopefully they’ll be able to take the message back to their developers.

..hopefully.