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Jon Speer

Jon Speer

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Jon is a Sr. Product Manager at Tripwire, which roughly translates to “that big guy at the door to R&D who keeps throwing out the sales guys and giving customers a VIP pass.” He’s worked in the security industry for over 15 years in a variety of roles, and is currently focused on bringing security solutions to market with unambiguous efficacy.

Jon Speer has contributed 3 posts to The State of Security.


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Why Many Smart Security People Aren't Social

Sony PSN Breach Fits Same Trend Seen in 2011 Verizon DBIR

RSA Conference 2011 – InfoSec Risk Management, You Got Served!

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Why Many Smart Security People Aren’t Social

by Jon Speer

Most of us know and follow a variety of really smart people who say a lot of smart things, but occasionally one of these things sticks and becomes a new lens for how we process the world around us.   I’ve recently realized that a November post from Rajesh Setty’s blog, “Why MANY smart people [...]

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Sony PSN Breach Fits Same Trend Seen in 2011 Verizon DBIR

by Jon Speer

It now appears that Sony PSN is framing up their breach as including the injection of a “communication tool” onto an application server via a vulnerability. They simply made a change to the server that opened up a backdoor. This exactly fits the trend reported in the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) of hackers [...]

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