Michael N. Dundas

When I first set this blog up, it was just to see what blogging was like and if it was useful. I don’t just blog for the sake of blogging, but I like the idea of things I find interesting or am working on in one place that is easily accessible and I can go back and reference if necessary.

Since most of my days (and nights) over the last few years have been dealing with tier 1 service providers around the world and their security, I figured it would mainly be based on those experiences and the security research that I do. I couldn’t think of a good name, so I picked the obvious ’security’ — not very creative.

The problem with the title ’security’ is that the blog is turning out to encompass more than just security. It has technical papers I have written, comments on things that I feel are important such as physical security, privacy concerns and whatever else I want to write my comments on and track. I considered starting multiple blogs but I have enough trouble keeping one blog and often times a issue in security can start with a technical paper which grows to discussions about architecture and then to politics, law etc. I want to be able to keep these things together.

With respect to technical security publishing, I am still working on what I can technically publish and what I can not. Given the work we do and our customers, I have to be careful what I write about on the blog. Since I work for a company that relies on research to build products that assist our customers, I have to ensure that I won’t expose our systems or our customers systems in anyway. That being said, my goal is to have either my research and articles published here, or at least comments on it and reference to a publicly available version of it.

I wrote a blog post the other day and referenced ‘Kaizen’. This seems like a good title to me, so I’ve switched the name of the blog. No big deal, but for anyone wondering why it changed now you know. If you go to the old URL http://security.michaeldundas.com it will continue to work. That URL now goes to a web server that will issue a HTTP 301 code which is a notification of a website that is moved permanently and redirect you to the new URL which is http://kaizen.michaeldundas.com.