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Physical problems in a virtual world

• 3 minutes to read
• Friday, 10th of March 2017
• • expat life
  • language
  • web
  • globalisation

We live in a European Union that is highly connected. One of the benefits of being European is that you can travel and even relocate in any of the EU countries. Actually, people are migrating from one country to the other all the time; sometimes without even knowing the official language of the destination country. That happened to me when I moved from Greece to Czech Republic. I did not (and still do not) speak Czech, but I relied on my English and I was ready to deal with any physical person not speaking English.

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Invite me to an event

• 1 minute to read
• Wednesday, 1st of March 2017
• • presentations
  • conferences
  • leadership
  • security

I have been speaking in events since 2009, and I was delivering undergraduate and postgraduate classes in Computer Science, Network Application programming and Security from 2001 to 2006.

Most of my presentations are posted in this blog, although I may have forgotten / lost some.

If you want me to talk in your event about security and risk management, feel free to send me a mail. My contact details are here.

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Me elsewhere

• 1 minute to read
• Tuesday, 28th of February 2017
• • leadership
  • security

Sometimes I give interviews, or publish case studies or write articles elsewhere.

Here is what I can remember, in reverse chronological order

• In 2023, my article on Third Party Risk Management The Security Blind Spot No One Wants to Discuss was published at ISACA Industry News
• In 2023 I recorded a podcast for NDK Cyber Secure Insights
• In 2020 I participated in Info-Tech''s strategy research on "The first 100 days as CISO"
• In 2018 my opinion on why CISOs not heard by the boards is a bad idea was published on Infosecurity magazine
• In 2018 Kevin Williams and I had a brief interaction which resulted in my opinions on biometrics to be considered
• In 2018 I wrote an article for SpeakUp at Work about the expectation of privacy
• In 2010 the usage of PandoraFMS (open source monitoring solution) in G4S was worth a case study here
• Between 1998 and 2001 I was the editor-in-chief, responsible for the Question and Answers section of the Greek online Magazine and wrote several articles about Linux. They are all in Greek :
  • March 2001 Linux Intrusion Detection System
  • October 2000 Setting up Linux From Scratch part 2
  • October 2000 Setting up Linux From Scratch part 1
  • September 2000 Bash tutorial
  • July 2000 Interview with Eric S. Raymond on OpenSource
  • June 2000 Perl DBI tutorial part 2
  • April 2000 Perl DBI tutorial part 1
  • October 1999 Setting up RAID
  • August 1999 August SGML editor review
  • May 1999 KDevelop review
  • March 1999: SySV boot process
  • July 1998: XISP setup for Greek ISPs
  • June 1998: Tutorial for XISP
  • April 1998: Second part of StarOffice presentation
  • March 1998: First part of StarOffice 4.0 presentation - what later became OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice
  • February 1998: Market situation
  • February 1998: SMB configuration

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