23 Quotes by Ed Moyle

Even if IM isn't used directly for business purposes, a number of organizations still find it beneficial to provide a standardized IM channel. When IM was emerging, many enterprises attempted to restrict IM use, but found there were administrative advantages to offering a sanctioned and standardized IM portal.

There's no fundamental difference between using QuickBooks to embezzle funds and using a ledger to embezzle funds, ... The technology just changes how the fraud is accomplished and maybe who commits it; it doesn't change why it's committed. As long as there are criminals, they will find a way to use the existing mechanisms to their advantage.

Rather than setting a universally high security bar across all systems in the enterprise, an enterprise might segregate systems into different 'zones,'

As a technologist, I'm not convinced that the U.N. is necessarily better equipped to deal with these issues than any number of other possible oversight bodies, including the U.S. Department of Commerce.

There's also usually a black hat contingent at most mainstream security conferences. Since information security and hacking are two sides of the same coin, many hackers go to security conferences and many security professionals go to hacker events -- neither community seems to mind.

The best security organizations I've worked with understand and attempt to quantify the risk-management decisions they make on an ongoing basis.

In general, black hats learn their tricks the same way that everybody else does: through a network of informational Web sites, magazines, conventions and advice from peers. There's even hacker radio.

I'm cautious about taking a functioning known quantity and turning it into something else -- at least without a full understanding of what the ultimate goal is.

IPv6 is certainly no 'instant on' -- it's a long hard road to get it done.