The Cuckoo's Egg - 30 years later we are still stuck in Groundhog's Day

The Cuckoo's Egg was written by Cliff Stoll back in 1989 still has many applicable lessons and security issues that apply today. This talk will be one part book report, and second-part discussion with some laughs scattered into the mix. How can we associate Bill Murray in Groundhog Day to some of the security issues we try to identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover in today's environment? This talk is geared towards those of you who have been in the profession when VMS OS and Digital Equipment Corporation computers were being used, and for those of you who are new to the profession and want to know how a book from 30 years ago can apply to today's information security challenges. J.J. Widener (Director of Information Security at Consortium Health Plans) J.J. Widener is a passionate and resourceful information security professional, and spoke last year at BSidesKC. He holds an MBA in Information Assurance from Fort Hays State University, and multiple information security and privacy certifications including CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, CIPP/E, CIPM. Currently he is the Director of Information Security at Consortium Health Plans, and has served as a CIO and CISO in Higher Education. The beginnings of J.J.'s IT career started with Cerner as a Systems Engineer, and application support at Firemon. Active member of ISC2, ISACA, IAPP. One little known fact, he loves singing on stage and performing in competitions, some of them are on YouTube.