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27 Dec 2007 Set your DVR

When I worked at Sprint Corporate Security in Kansas City, we had a whole group of Security Geeks that basically got to hack for a living. A bunch of them left Sprint and went to work for Alternative Technology and spend their life breaking into companies computer systems and physical locations for a living.

Fast forward about 4 years and I’m on a conference call with our rep from Alternative telling me we need to sell their services and Chris Nickerson, the guy I worked with at Sprint, got on the phone. I guess the info security world is pretty small!

Chris came to talk at our Network Security Revolution in September and in his presentation mentioned his show, Tiger Team. It debued on Christmas Day on Court TV. I HIGHLY recommend that you DVR it next time it is on. It’ll give you a really big wakeup call about how you are very vulnerable….if three guys can break into some of the most secured locations in the country, imagine how easily some amateur could break into your home/office, etc using blended threats of social engineering, network tools and physical force.

Check it out!  No wonder I’m so paranoid!