Sometimes two things that don’t seem to go together, make the most magical combinations; things like peanut butter and chocolate, maple and bacon, and even Jon Snow and Ygritte. In hopes of adding to such delightful duos, I have started a new series of security articles trying to uncover another unexpected pairing—information security and pop culture.
What can popular movies, TV shows, books, or video games teach us about cyber security? Maybe nothing, maybe everything. In my new Help Net Security series, I plan to see if your favorite guilty pleasures can uncover any cyber security insights you’d never have expected. Join me for my first article at Help Net Security, where I share eight information security tips I learned from The Walking Dead (TWD).
- Eight Cyber Security Tips I Learned from The Walking Dead – Help Net Security
By the way, if you like the article, or you love The Walking Dead, feel to share some TWD cyber security tips of your own? Come back here and add your own interesting infosec parallels to the comments section below. Feel free to draw parallels to other pop culture media too! — Corey Nachreiner, CISSP (@SecAdept)
Great read, Corey! Looking forward to more…
Thanks Ryan, it was fun to write… considering lots of other media… Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Skyrim, House of Cards, etc…
XCOM? 😉
heh, that would be fun too… By the way, have you seen this Ryan (based on our past web server attack discussions):
http://thehackernews.com/2014/03/operation-windigo-linux-malware.html
Yep, I did see that. Seems to be a trend of news on Linux these days. I checked and my servers are clean. Of course, it might have to with the fact that I harden them so much that it’s almost annoying for me to work with them! 😉
Quick and fun read. Totally on target. I will watch TWD with slightly differentb perspective!
Thank you. It has me watching all my favorite guilty pleasures a little differently. I’ve already come up with a few tips based on Breaking Bad.