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Some Random Thoughts From Security Field Day

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I’m spending the week in some great company at Security Field Day with awesome people. They’re really making me think about security in some different ways. Between our conversations going to the presentations and the discussions we’re having after hours, I’m starting to see some things that I didn’t notice before.

Security is a hard thing to get into because it’s so different everywhere. Where everyone just sees one big security community, it is in fact a large collection of small communities. Thinking that there is just one security community would be much more like thinking enterprise networking, wireless networking, and service provider networking are the same space. They may all deal with packets flying across the wires but they are very different under the hood. Security is a lot of various communities with the name in common. Security isn’t about tools. It’s not about software or hardware or a product you can buy. It’s about thinking differently. It’s about looking at the world through a different lens. How to protect something. How to attack something. How to figure all of that out. That’s not something you learn from a book or a course. It’s a way of adjusting your thinking to look at problems in a different way. It’s not unlike being in an escape room. Don’t look at the objects like you normally would. Instead, think about them with unique combinations that get you somewhere different than where you thought you needed to be. Security is one of the only IT disciplines where failure is an acceptable outcome. If we can’t install a router or a wireless access point, it’s a bad job. However, in security if you fail to access something that should have been secured it was a success. That can lead to some very interesting situations that you can find yourself in. It’s important to realize that you also have to properly document your “failure” so people know what you tried to do to get there. Otherwise your success may just be a lack of proper failure. Tom’s Take

I’m going to have some more thoughts from Security Field Day coming up another time. There’s just too much to digest at one time. Stay tuned for some more great discussions and highlights of my first real foray in the security community!


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