We're moving offices tomorrow (9/11/08) and expect to have some downtime while we migrate the servers. We will be down from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT. Thanks for your patience. This will affect mail and the certificate servers.

Security geeks who like to chew on numbers will enjoy the WebAppSec Statistics. Lots of pretty pictures too.

Here's an interesting post on entrepreneurship, access to capital and race based on a restricted Census Bureau information. The post ties this study into the current fiscal crisis as well. It's a very interesting post.

In my opinion, there's been a bias toward consumer credit over business credit, which has helped create a market where it was easier to buy a home than get a good job. To put this into perspective, the total amount of SBA loans outstanding as of June 2007 is $685 billion, just $15 billion less than the estimated cost of the bailout of bad mortgage loans.

"But consumers are 3/4 of the economy", you say. "Isn't that part of the problem", I say.

One of our users just provided us with documentation on how to convert the WiKID Strong Authentication server rpms to .debs for Ubuntu. This is great news for the many fans of Ubuntu. We will include as much of this code as possible in the 3.2 release to make it even easier to use alien to convert the rpms.

And just so you know, it's not that we don't value the Ubuntu/Debian community, it's just that our plan is to move even more OS independent for 4.0 and so we've been focused on that effort.

Enjoy!

It's all about thumb drives these days. In particular, today. I spent a lot of time today talking to one our our OEM partners about where they ordered custom logo USB drives for one of their customers so I could get a quote for one of our prospects who also wants custom logo USB drives for an online banking application. Now, I see that we have a small mention in 12 Tricks To Teach Your USB Thumb Drive (#9). I'm not sure it's accurate, though. It seems to suggest that you can secure your PC with WiKID. Really, WiKID is a form of two-factor authentication meant to help secure network based communications services such as VPNs and websites. The article mentions that, but I think it's a bit unclear. WiKID can be used to add two-factor authentication to GoToMyPC but only their corporation version using radius, which also means using our Enterprise version.

My friend Ed Rackley has a quote from Blake in his sig line:

'A dog starv'd at his Master's gate
predicts the ruin of the State...' -- Blake

I thought of this quote this morning while listening to the news. Atlanta, in addition to not having any water has no gasoline. It was the first time I thought of myself as the dog.

How does this relate to information security? As I noted in May of 2006:

There are other reasons to promote teleworking: disaster preparedness. And as last year's gas Katrina-related gas shortages showed, it's not just about keeping your workforce working in a distributed fashion. Emergency teleworking can reduce gas consumption. In Georgia last year after Katrina, the governor closed public schools for a day to reduce diesel consumption. Of course, this was incredibly annoying to families with children for obvious reasons.

On top of all this, my bank failed.