The Security Kitchen

Welcome to ‘The Security Kitchen’.

While I would want to say that this is my first blogpost, it isn’t. I’ve started blogging somewhere in 2007, 1st on a privately hosted blog. I switched to http://www.blogspot.com in September 2008 because I didn’t like the software (Drupal) that I was using and I was up for a new start anyway.  Still it didn’t went where I wanted it to go.  Now, after some new years resolutions, I’m back and I feel this can be the beginning of something grand, first and foremost for me (I’m self-centric like that) but hopefully also for you, as a reader.

Obviously, a blog needs a purpose. I learned that the hard way.  There’s plenty of blogs out there and I was wondering where I can be different. The most important thing about this blog is that it is certainly not about ME.  This blog will be about things you as a security professional can use on a day to day basis, mainly tools, techniques and loads of interesting information.

These are the plans for 2009 :

a) regular posts about tools, techniques, methodologies, technology in general.

b) regular posts about important events in the security realm.

c) random posts voicing my opinion on events, evolution, people and discussions in the security realm.

Last, but to me a very important part of what I want to achieve with this blog, I invite everybody in the security space to contribute.  I will try to conduct interviews (mainly through Skype) with people in the community and post them here. Ad hoc (non-scripted) confcalls are an option too, I will just see what is possible there and look how it goes. No promises.

I also invite guest posts, if you feel like cooking in our kitchen, let me know. As long as it is information security related, I’m game.

For now : Welcome to The Kitchen, let’s dig in.

you can reach me on twitter @ http://www.twitter.com/domdingelom or through e-mail @ wim|at|remes_dash_it|dot|be

PS : I’ve got nothing against Drupal, it’s great software. It just wasn’t for me, mainly because it wasn’t blog focused. Blogging was just a part of it and all the other stuff made it too complicated to manage for simple, old, me.