Personal Security – Passports and Credit Cards with

I have had two conversations in the last two days that reminded me of the world that I live in. The world of the security informed and therefore the slightly paranoid, so may I offer some of my paranoia to you… I received my new US Passport yesterday. There are no more choices with the [...]

25 Random Things about Me

1. I feel a bit like the guy on the show The Pretender (not intelligence level though). I have sold cars, catered Cajun, worked in a fish market, rode my bicycle 1500 miles in 2 years, taught networking/security, worked in a quilt store, owned two fruit stores and yet i still don’t know what i [...]

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Our New President

Growing up in the DC area produces one of two types of people, best I can figure.  You either love politics, or hate it.  Personally I have been a part of the latter for my entire life, until now.  I was priviledge to be out of this coutry when we elected our new president (I [...]

Men… I wonder…

I am now 40 years old.  I have been married twice, and twice I have had the man who said that they loved me take so much from me.  I have lost so much in this last divorce.  I have almost nothing left, but what I do have is my health and my ability to [...]

Now What…

I received word from my realtor last week that it appears that the short sale on my house is going to go through.  Now what?  I am going to be homeless.  I have been working my way towards being homeless for some time now.  It sounds so bad in our culture to be ‘homeless’ but [...]

Your Trip Pro – Traveler tip

As pretty much everyone that knows me knows I travel quite a bit.  So I thought I would share some of my tips and tricks with you. One of my favorites is that I have become my own travel agent.  Rather than giving the commissions off of my own travel to others.  I have my [...]

Passwords

Lets start with Passwords… we all have ‘em… we all need ‘em… and they are out of control!  My preference for storing all of those passwords is a free little program from CounterPane called Password Safe.  It allows you to store all of your passwords in one safe, encrypted, location.  You must remember one password [...]

Hello world!

Welcome to my website and blog.  A little about myself… I spend most of my time traveling around the world (mostly US and Europe) talking about Information Security.  Most of the classes I teach these days are CISSP review courses, although I currently also teach SSCP, and Security +.  I have my own company with [...]

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