Perspective

Real leaders create environments where risks can be discussed candidly.

Last week Research In Motion announced three things: It had renamed itself to BlackBerry It would soon ship two new BlackBerry 10-compatible devices, the Q10 (with keyboard) and Z10 (touchscreen only) It had shipped the new BlackBerry Enterprise Service, version 10 These three announcements, taken together, signaled the end of a long period of frustration for customers, employees and shareholders.

During his State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, President Obama announced an Executive Order on Cyber-Security. The full text is available in many places, including Wired.

Soon, I will be moving the securitymetrics.org website to a simpler, secure and more usable system—the same platform that powers Markerbench. It should be done in time for Mini-Metricon (March 1st, 2013).

As part of a continuing experiment with static blogging, I have moved all of my historical blog posts from securitymetrics.org to Markerbench.com. Everything is now here, including the somewhat notorious essay Escaping the Hamster Wheel of Pain, which introduced a certain rodent-related metaphor to the security trade and served as the introduction to my book, “Security Metrics: Replacing Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt”.

Perhaps you’ve heard about the recently disclosed Java 7 zero-day exploit. The flaw allows a remote attacker to take complete control of a computer. It has been incorporated into many exploit kits.