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Adam Montville

About Adam Montville

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From humble beginnings as a secure hash implementor at Oregon State University's Information Security Laboratory in the mid '90s, Adam has come to be a voice in the Security Automation and larger security community. He has held a variety of security-related positions throughout his fourteen year information security career, including civil service at the Department of Defense, CTO of a secure messaging company, and Director of IT Operations for a secure information sharing service. He is an avid blogger on information security topics, and believes that being a hacker is not equivalent to being evil.

Adam Montville has contributed 16 posts to The State of Security.


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Online Attribution With On Demand Anonymity

Online Attribution With On Demand Anonymity

by Adam Montville

I have a lot of online accounts. I have two Twitter accounts (one for myself, which I use professionally – @adammontville – and one for my non-employer online presence- @stoicsecurity). I’m on LinkedIn and I have a Facebook page, which I admitedly don’t use very much any more. I have a Google+ account. I use [...]

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Experiment: Knowledge Fuels Ideas, Experience Guides

Experiment: Knowledge Fuels Ideas, Experience Guides

by Adam Montville

When I was but a wee lad, I was given chemistry sets, electrical sets (low voltage, I promise), erector sets, and piles of books about the world and its inhabitants.  Knowledge fueled ideas and experience was my guide.  While I’m quite certain I didn’t have the scientific method mastered at the age of eight, I [...]

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