I often get asked to speak in various places around the world, something I generally enjoy greatly. Here are some answers to the usual questions relating to a speaking engagement:
Rethinking PasswordsPasswords and PINs are used everywhere these days, but their use is often painful. Traditional password advice and rules are seldom appropriate for today's threats, yet we labor with the password rules and servers of yesteryear. Strong passwords are weakening our security, and it is time to fix that.
There are numerous proposals for new password solutions. I will present a few half-baked ideas. But there are good solutions available now.
We are facing much more worrisome security challenges: we ought to get this easy stuff right.
This talk can be adjusted from general audiences (grandma) to highly technical, as desired. Depending on the version, it can last from 25 to 60 minutes.
Backup copies of this presentation are here, as a compressed tar of the Keynote presentation, and a less-featured PDF version.
These are emergency backup copies of the talk. Do NOT contemplate using these as the actual presentation, unless something happens to my laptop enroute. I modify my talks right up until a few minutes before giving them, updating and editing them as news and circumstances dictate.
I will be happy to supply a copy of the actual slides used at the end of the talk via thumbdrive or web.
Please do not ask me to use Powerpoint! It is important that I drive the slides myself.
The Macintosh (a MacBook Pro) is problematic for some projection systems, I don't know why, but there seems to be a problem with some buffering hardware. I don't need high resolution: 1024x768 is plenty, so this usually Just Works. The presentations are generally problematic when moved to Powerpoint or Windows in general.
The current presentation also goes better with an audio feed from the Mac. This isn't a show-stopper: I only need the audio for a few seconds, and can use the microphone.