Infosec People have this ingrained fear of new technology it seems. New Tech = New Complexity = New Problems. So while the rest of the world is running around with their federated data, agile workflows and AJAX interviews, we're still clinging onto our CSV files and discussing whether or not we should start looking into this visualization thing people have been talking about. So here we are, stuck using tech support ticket systems, trying to manage intelligence information in a wiki, and enslaved to zombie workflows. Maybe if we stopped arguing about semantics, and started using them to build tools that model the way we think? Yeah, I thought that too; figured it would be pretty AWESIEM.
Mention "Commodore Amiga" around Conrad and watch him get misty-eyed for the 'good old days' of the computer underground and the Demo-writing scene. An early background in searching for forbidden knowledge, pushing computing hardware to its limits and a nose for the truth, made for a perfect storm toward a career in Incident Response, where over a decade and a half he has been on the front lines of defense work in telecom, medical and media corporations, not least of which being at ground zero for the 2011 RSA Breach. A firm believer that incident response must become an accessible and effective discipline available to all, he works on bringing the mysteries of open source intelligence generation and defensive agility to those willing to take the leap from fear to action, mostly via the medium of code, (and visio diagrams).