Videos

In this week’s Firestarter the team makes up for last week and picks three different stories, each with a time limit. It’s like one of those ESPN shows, but with less content and personality.

Last week we held a wake for Windows XP. This week we continue that trend, as we discuss the end of yet era – coincidentally linked to XP.

We originally recorded this episode on St. Patty’s Day and thought it would be nice to send off Windows XP with a nice Irish wake, but Google had a hiccup and our video was stuck in Never Never Land for an extra day. To be honest, we thought we lost it, so no complaints.

We are all rested and recovered from RSA (yeah, right) and it’s time to review the week and what we think. Did we mention security is back, baby?! That’s right – it is clear budgets are now free, and the stink of desperation is fading.

Okay, not really, but we hope you enjoy this beer-fueled extended episode of the Securosis Firestarter. Clocking in at a full hour, we prep and review the upcoming RSA show, which is really our way of covering how we think the year in the security industry will look.

This is our last regular Firestarter before we record our pre-RSA Quarterly Happy Hour.

This week, after a few non-sequiturs, we talk about the madness of payment systems. It seems the US is headed towards chip and signature, not chip and PIN like the rest of the world, because banks think American are too stupid to remember a second PIN.

In this week’s Firestarter we talk about the Book of Mormon (the play, not the other thing), biking while intoxicated, and the ongoing predilection of mass media to abuse the truth about security for ratings. Because, NBC and Sochi, and we have a question. Please drop us a line in the comments or on Twitter if you’d like us to also post the Firestarter as an audio-only podcast.

Okay, let’s just ignore the first part of this Firestarter where we talk about the Denver Broncos, okay? We recorded it on the Friday before the game and, well, enough said.

In this week’s Firestarter Rich, Mike, and Adrian (until his computer died) discuss the importance (or lack thereof) of the security industry and community in influencing government.

In this week’s Firestarter Rich, Mike, and Adrian discuss the latest in the Target relevations and whether over-reliance on antivirus is to blame once again.

Okay, we have content in this thing. We promise. But we can’t stop staring at our new title video sequence. I mean, just look at it!

Hey everyone. It’s a new year and time for new stuff from your pals here at Securosis.

We used to run a Monday-morning ‘Firestarter’ post to get people thinking for the week. We decided to revive it with a twist. We are restarting the Firestarter as a weekly short video (15 minutes or so is our target). As we work out the details we also plan to push it out as a podcast, and once every month or so we will run a longer episode to dig deeper into a topic.