I’m writing this post in my garden, 22:15 still 23°. Yes, it’s summer time! Soon, a lot of admins and security professionals will leave their office to go to the beach. Here are some tips for enjoying a safe comeback: 1. If you configure an...

The Google toolbar is a powerful add-on for your browser. It adds very nice features (of course, to be used sparingly if you don’t want Google to know everything about you). There is also an API which offers extra features for webmasters such as...

Click to enlarge This picture has been taken in an industrial environment but could fully match in IT security too! For those who don’t speak French nor Dutch, it says: “Your principal safety responsible is in front of you“. Stickers are placed on...

Click to enlarge Click to enlarge I was driving into Brussels this afternoon and saw two Google cars. The second one stopped just in front of me at a traffic light. The cameras were recording (I saw some activity on the LEDs on top of the cams). I...

A well-know Bruce Schneier’s citation is “Security is a process, not a product“. Monitoring your infrastructure is fully part of your security policy. You don’t have only to deploy security blocks (applications, servers, appliances, …) to build your...