No this is not about the world cup in ski-flying. Actually Austria won gold and silver in the single competition and gold in the team competition.
It is about the people
Last Friday I went out with some friends. On this evening I drank not even one gram of alcohol. Why? because I don't want to. The evening was very funny. But why 1:0 for Finland?
Later this evening we have been to the newly renovated Segafredo in Steyr. This was one of my most famous pub some years ago. It was newly renovated, so I wanted to see how it looks like. Nothing really special, but ok.
As the evening went on, I had time to "monitor" the behaviour of the people there. It is always different to have a not drunken view *g*. A lot of young people have been there, good looking, but fancy.
Remember Finland, have you ever ever see or here a Fin gripe about the look of others, or the clothe of others and so on ? Think about it, .. I haven't. Because nobody cares how people look like, and if they do care, than they don't show or say it. Because there is some respect and privacy.
In Austria and especially I recognized it again on this evening, people here care,.. more than they should. This kind of arrogance is so pathetic. The Segafredo always was a place to attract those kind of people, who think they are better than others. Is it really necessary for Austrians (especially the youth) to run down other people, just to feel better? This competition between people, not only at work but also in the private life. It is normal for central Europe. Especially in Northern countries, but also southern countries, it is different.
I think the problem already starts in school (learned from the parents), where 7 year olds complain about the cloth of other 7 year olds. Because some don't wear any popular brand, or maybe they do not have a playstation or own tv or own computer at home. In my opinion school uniforms would make a lot of things easier for some children. Or when 19 years old complain about 45 years old people coming to a disco. (What the hell are those "old" people doing here ?!)
Ok, one more examples. When a car is driving on the road and a faster one is coming from behind and on the other lane is a car driving in the opposite direction. Finland: both, the one on my lane and the one on the opposite lane would drive as right as possible to make space for the faster car. Austria: both, the one on my lane and the one on the opposite lane would drive as far in the middle as possible, and think "you are not overtaking me, no your not, ...."
In Ireland the 18year old goes to the same pub and has fun as his 60+ year old grandfather. In Finland, how often did we see naked guys running around *g*, did someone complain or run them down? So what's so special about central European people, ... I don't know and I hope I can fight those behaviours and not become (again) one of those kind of people. Give some more respect!
What do you think about this?
Dienstag, Februar 26, 2008
Workshop Resume
I'm back for some days and I now want to give you a short feedback.
The workshop about Business Continuity Management was quite ok. The most interesting part was the practical part in the second half of the day.
Nevertheless it was hard for me to stay awake, not because the topics were boring, but after 8h overnight train and nearly no sleep, sticky air, ... *yaaaawn*
However, even if the topics were quite interesting, the workshop was not worthy the effort. First of all the wasted time in the train and secondly the money of course. 14h ours train (linz - frankfurt and back) 39€ + 39€, local trains (st. valentin - linz and back, frankfurt - darmstadt and back) 4,10€ + 4,10€ + 6,75€ + 6,75€, a room for one night 70€, tramway 1,45€ + 1,45€ and the workshop itself 35€ (student price).
I recommend doing it another way, for example booking a cheap flight as early as possible. (when I tried to book flight also would have cost 250€)
About the content:
The first speaker was from the BSI UK. This is the organization which created the BCM-standard BS25999. The topic should have been BS25999-2:Specification .. . But unfortunately it was mostly about part one of the standard, not part two. So nothing new for me in that case. But afterwards I asked the speaker some questions, so it was a bit helpful at all.
The second topic was "the concrete procedure in a BCM project". I disagreed a lot with the speaker. He has a lot of experience in the field of Disaster Recovery, but his mapping from "there way to implement BCM" to the 25999 standard was ... hmm... let's say, not how I understand it. One example, he always talked about assets and continuity of this assets. But in BCM normally you always talk about (business) processes and the continuity of those.
After a short coffee break the chairman and professor of the TU Darmstadt talked about how to measure efficiency of BCM. This topic was quite interesting, even if I do not need it for my master thesis. It was a mathematical approach how to calculate an efficiency value. You can calculate a result without even testing the BCM approach . It was very theoretical, but something different and interesting.
After lunch there was a presentation about a doctoral thesis. It was ok, but not very exciting. Would be nice to read the whole dissertation, because in such a "short" presentation it is only possible to get an idea of the content.
Then there was a presentation about the human factor in BCM,.... sorry can't tell you anything, I was too much concentrating of not falling asleep. (not the presentation, the followings of the train trip ^^)
The last two presentations were about practical implementations at Siemens and BMW. Those were also very nice and useful to get an inside view to a practical implementation.
The workshop about Business Continuity Management was quite ok. The most interesting part was the practical part in the second half of the day.
Nevertheless it was hard for me to stay awake, not because the topics were boring, but after 8h overnight train and nearly no sleep, sticky air, ... *yaaaawn*
However, even if the topics were quite interesting, the workshop was not worthy the effort. First of all the wasted time in the train and secondly the money of course. 14h ours train (linz - frankfurt and back) 39€ + 39€, local trains (st. valentin - linz and back, frankfurt - darmstadt and back) 4,10€ + 4,10€ + 6,75€ + 6,75€, a room for one night 70€, tramway 1,45€ + 1,45€ and the workshop itself 35€ (student price).
I recommend doing it another way, for example booking a cheap flight as early as possible. (when I tried to book flight also would have cost 250€)
About the content:
The first speaker was from the BSI UK. This is the organization which created the BCM-standard BS25999. The topic should have been BS25999-2:Specification .. . But unfortunately it was mostly about part one of the standard, not part two. So nothing new for me in that case. But afterwards I asked the speaker some questions, so it was a bit helpful at all.
The second topic was "the concrete procedure in a BCM project". I disagreed a lot with the speaker. He has a lot of experience in the field of Disaster Recovery, but his mapping from "there way to implement BCM" to the 25999 standard was ... hmm... let's say, not how I understand it. One example, he always talked about assets and continuity of this assets. But in BCM normally you always talk about (business) processes and the continuity of those.
After a short coffee break the chairman and professor of the TU Darmstadt talked about how to measure efficiency of BCM. This topic was quite interesting, even if I do not need it for my master thesis. It was a mathematical approach how to calculate an efficiency value. You can calculate a result without even testing the BCM approach . It was very theoretical, but something different and interesting.
After lunch there was a presentation about a doctoral thesis. It was ok, but not very exciting. Would be nice to read the whole dissertation, because in such a "short" presentation it is only possible to get an idea of the content.
Then there was a presentation about the human factor in BCM,.... sorry can't tell you anything, I was too much concentrating of not falling asleep. (not the presentation, the followings of the train trip ^^)
The last two presentations were about practical implementations at Siemens and BMW. Those were also very nice and useful to get an inside view to a practical implementation.
Mittwoch, Februar 20, 2008
Workshop and other stuff
Until yesterday I was still correcting my expose, my content and my project report. (for the third time(!)) Hopefully this time it is good enough for my adviser.
Today I will travel to a workshop in Germany by train (2220). The workshop is hold by the Cast-Forum at the Fraunhofer institute in Darmstadt. The topic is "Enterprise Security Management" and has its focus on Business Continuity Management. So it should be perfect for my master thesis. I will travel 8h there and 7h back. The funny thing is, the workshop only lasts from 10-17 o'clock. I will stay one night in Darmstadt and when I'm back I will give you a report.
Fortunately I got this special tickets (Sparschiene), where I have to pay only 39€ from Linz to Frankfurt. (normally ~109€)
Today I sent my resume with all additional documents to a company to apply for a job. The job is called Technical Security Analyst and the description of it sounds very promising. So I thought, why shouldn't I try. It is only in a small town, but the company is very good. It is the biggest in its market (in Austria) and it also has settlements all over central and eastern Europe. I will keep you up- to date
Now I should excessively start with my master thesis, because the first milestone (chapter 1-4) is on 29.2. Phhhuuuuu!!
Today I will travel to a workshop in Germany by train (2220). The workshop is hold by the Cast-Forum at the Fraunhofer institute in Darmstadt. The topic is "Enterprise Security Management" and has its focus on Business Continuity Management. So it should be perfect for my master thesis. I will travel 8h there and 7h back. The funny thing is, the workshop only lasts from 10-17 o'clock. I will stay one night in Darmstadt and when I'm back I will give you a report.
Fortunately I got this special tickets (Sparschiene), where I have to pay only 39€ from Linz to Frankfurt. (normally ~109€)
Today I sent my resume with all additional documents to a company to apply for a job. The job is called Technical Security Analyst and the description of it sounds very promising. So I thought, why shouldn't I try. It is only in a small town, but the company is very good. It is the biggest in its market (in Austria) and it also has settlements all over central and eastern Europe. I will keep you up- to date
Now I should excessively start with my master thesis, because the first milestone (chapter 1-4) is on 29.2. Phhhuuuuu!!
Samstag, Februar 09, 2008
Presentation for PCClub and new technical stuff
First of all, last Wednesday we did a presentation (in the name of our organization Hagenberger Kreis) for the PC-Club in my hometown. It was the second presentation about IT-Security. This time we had the topic Backup. First I was afraid that the topic is too small and we can not fill the planned 1-1,5h. But as it is, when it comes to presentations, in the end it took 2,5h.
First we presented basics like medias, where and what to backup and so on. Also we explained in details what is and how works incremental, differential and full-backup.
At the end we presented two tools to backup.
The first one was the Vista integrated backup and restore center. For (semi-)professionals I would recommend not to use it. Because it has some really weird things implemented. First of all it is not possible to choose a backup strategy. (increment, differential, full) Vista makes first a full backup and afterwards only incremental backups all the time. So it is not possible to make a full backup every Sunday and in between incremental.
But the weirdest thing is, that you can't really choose a directory or file to backup. Because the only choice you have is to choose a partition or disk and afterwards choose which kind of file types you want to backup. That it definitely strange !!! You don't believe me? Have a look!
Weird!!
However, the restore function has the possibility to restore only one file or a directory. (why not the backup function !!!??)
The second tool was one of my favourite -> Cobian Backup.
It is freeware and it is really good. It has everything you need, except backup on DVD. You can find it here Cobian Backup.
The feature list is really very nice and the upcoming version, which should be published soon, has even more features. But read the feature list on your own, I give you just some key words: FTP, encryption, compression, password, timestamps, files/directories/partitions/disks, and so on and on and on.....
Ok, let's move on to the new technical stuff.
Truecrypt released a new version. Version 5 brings some new stuff, but the most important thing is the pre-boot encryption.
Finally a free software encryption tool has a pre-boot feature. This means that you have to enter a pass phrase at the boot process and if someone steals your PC or hard disk, he can't do anything with it, because it is encrypted. Very nice!!
I will do it as soon as possible, but first I will do a backup of my important data, because there is always a small risk with this kind of software. In the worst case, you can't access the PC on your own *gg*. But it should work, I will give you some Input as soon as I know.
Vista User Account Control issue:
When I put my PC into my domain and "transfered" my local user to a domain user account, I had a problem with the UAC. Everytime it asked me to enter my Admin and password. Not like before just to click at continue, this time I really have to type it all the time.
I lived some time with this issue, until I solved it yesterday. I played with the user accounts and recognized, that my domain user is not in the list of the local users. So I made a new user. There you can say that this user is part of a domain. After I did that, everything worked find as before.
First we presented basics like medias, where and what to backup and so on. Also we explained in details what is and how works incremental, differential and full-backup.
At the end we presented two tools to backup.
The first one was the Vista integrated backup and restore center. For (semi-)professionals I would recommend not to use it. Because it has some really weird things implemented. First of all it is not possible to choose a backup strategy. (increment, differential, full) Vista makes first a full backup and afterwards only incremental backups all the time. So it is not possible to make a full backup every Sunday and in between incremental.
But the weirdest thing is, that you can't really choose a directory or file to backup. Because the only choice you have is to choose a partition or disk and afterwards choose which kind of file types you want to backup. That it definitely strange !!! You don't believe me? Have a look!
Weird!!However, the restore function has the possibility to restore only one file or a directory. (why not the backup function !!!??)
The second tool was one of my favourite -> Cobian Backup.
It is freeware and it is really good. It has everything you need, except backup on DVD. You can find it here Cobian Backup.
The feature list is really very nice and the upcoming version, which should be published soon, has even more features. But read the feature list on your own, I give you just some key words: FTP, encryption, compression, password, timestamps, files/directories/partitions/disks, and so on and on and on.....
Ok, let's move on to the new technical stuff.
Truecrypt released a new version. Version 5 brings some new stuff, but the most important thing is the pre-boot encryption.
Finally a free software encryption tool has a pre-boot feature. This means that you have to enter a pass phrase at the boot process and if someone steals your PC or hard disk, he can't do anything with it, because it is encrypted. Very nice!!
I will do it as soon as possible, but first I will do a backup of my important data, because there is always a small risk with this kind of software. In the worst case, you can't access the PC on your own *gg*. But it should work, I will give you some Input as soon as I know.
Vista User Account Control issue:
When I put my PC into my domain and "transfered" my local user to a domain user account, I had a problem with the UAC. Everytime it asked me to enter my Admin and password. Not like before just to click at continue, this time I really have to type it all the time.
I lived some time with this issue, until I solved it yesterday. I played with the user accounts and recognized, that my domain user is not in the list of the local users. So I made a new user. There you can say that this user is part of a domain. After I did that, everything worked find as before.
Dienstag, Februar 05, 2008
Clinton vs Obama
I guess a lot of non-Americans out there watch sometimes the news about the "fight" Clinton vs Obama. Maybe because it's just funny how stupid sometimes US-Americans can be. I mean, come on, in which country can a men become president with having not the most votes ?! That's the American kind of democracy. (Ok, Austrians can be also stupid sometimes, especially when it comes to elections *gg*)
However, I think it is very important who becomes the next president, because the one they have at the moment is just embarrassing.
So, today is the "Super Tuesday" and US citizens can vote who of those two should be the presidential candidate. I think it is not easy anyway, but anything will be better than it is now. On one side is Hillary. A strong woman, who has the knowledge and the experience. On the other side there is Obama, "young" and dynamic, maybe the knowledge, but experience?? Difficult.
So we will see soon, how USA will decide. In the meanwhile you can spend your time with one product of the election campaign, the video "Yes we can", which is based on a speech of Obama, which includes a lot of supporting Hollywood stars. (I hope for them, the never will regret their choice, but it is the same for all supporting stars, also those supporting other candidates. (As far as I remember, some supported the actual president ^^)
Hmmm, by the way.... Yes we can is a good slogan, you can use it everywhere. For example conquering Irak....Yes we can!!! Yes we can!!! I hope they will not use it that way ;)
Some facts and your turn to vote:
Eco-Research US-Election monitor
Let the show begin!
However, I think it is very important who becomes the next president, because the one they have at the moment is just embarrassing.
So, today is the "Super Tuesday" and US citizens can vote who of those two should be the presidential candidate. I think it is not easy anyway, but anything will be better than it is now. On one side is Hillary. A strong woman, who has the knowledge and the experience. On the other side there is Obama, "young" and dynamic, maybe the knowledge, but experience?? Difficult.
So we will see soon, how USA will decide. In the meanwhile you can spend your time with one product of the election campaign, the video "Yes we can", which is based on a speech of Obama, which includes a lot of supporting Hollywood stars. (I hope for them, the never will regret their choice, but it is the same for all supporting stars, also those supporting other candidates. (As far as I remember, some supported the actual president ^^)
Hmmm, by the way.... Yes we can is a good slogan, you can use it everywhere. For example conquering Irak....Yes we can!!! Yes we can!!! I hope they will not use it that way ;)
Some facts and your turn to vote:
Eco-Research US-Election monitor
Let the show begin!
Montag, Februar 04, 2008
There it is...
It's again a long time since my last entry. January is over, so is the real stress. Now it should be easier to find time to write some entries. So what did i do the last few days.
As I already mentioned most of the time in January did I spend on my pre-master thesis project. In the end I had 24 pages and it should be ok. But of course I did also other things.
One time I have been at a presentation from Ted Humphrey about ISO27001.
About Ted Humphrey:
Some days after I visited a "Security projects fair" at our university. It was the first time, that every class from our security studies (computer and media security bachelor and secure information systems master) presented its semester projects. Before that we always presented only to the students of the same class and get the grade for that. Now it is possible for each year to see, what the other years have done.
I must say this idea is really good and the fair was very interesting. Some really good projects have been presented. One group programed a software which does load balancing with virtual machines without any interrupten (it is available open source on sourceforge, but did forget the URL). Another nice project implemented secure services over a mobile network. For example ordering a credit card per mobile and you can pay one minute after the order with your credit card on the phone. And a lot more interesting projects. Nice !
Ok, what else.
Last week there was my last exam (hopefully) in my study career. It was the cryptography2-applications exam. It was a bit more than expected, but it should be ok. Before that we presented our project. So finally I have all the time for my master thesis.
Ah, we also got the grade for Parallel Computing. I only reached a 4 (out of 5). It's not so bad, but 5 would be better *gg*.
Ok, the last thing for today. We have a presentation about Backups in my home town at the PCClub. We (Georg and me) do this for our organisation Hagenberger Kreis. I will give you a summary afterwards.
So much for today.... see ya!
As I already mentioned most of the time in January did I spend on my pre-master thesis project. In the end I had 24 pages and it should be ok. But of course I did also other things.
One time I have been at a presentation from Ted Humphrey about ISO27001.
About Ted Humphrey:
The presentation was very nice and the really good part for me was, that he confirmed indirectly, that my topic of the master thesis is well chosen, because it will be a relevant topic in the future. Good for me, hopefully!! :)
"Ted Humphreys (FBCS CITP, CISM) is Director of XiSEC Consultants Ltd a UK company providing Information Security Management consultancy services around the world. He has been an expert in the field of information security and risk management for more than 27 years. ...He was the editor of BS 7799 Part 1:1999, ISO/IEC 17799:2000 and the 1999 and 2002 editions of BS 7799 Part 2 the ISMS standard. ..."
Some days after I visited a "Security projects fair" at our university. It was the first time, that every class from our security studies (computer and media security bachelor and secure information systems master) presented its semester projects. Before that we always presented only to the students of the same class and get the grade for that. Now it is possible for each year to see, what the other years have done.
I must say this idea is really good and the fair was very interesting. Some really good projects have been presented. One group programed a software which does load balancing with virtual machines without any interrupten (it is available open source on sourceforge, but did forget the URL). Another nice project implemented secure services over a mobile network. For example ordering a credit card per mobile and you can pay one minute after the order with your credit card on the phone. And a lot more interesting projects. Nice !
Ok, what else.
Last week there was my last exam (hopefully) in my study career. It was the cryptography2-applications exam. It was a bit more than expected, but it should be ok. Before that we presented our project. So finally I have all the time for my master thesis.
Ah, we also got the grade for Parallel Computing. I only reached a 4 (out of 5). It's not so bad, but 5 would be better *gg*.
Ok, the last thing for today. We have a presentation about Backups in my home town at the PCClub. We (Georg and me) do this for our organisation Hagenberger Kreis. I will give you a summary afterwards.
So much for today.... see ya!
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