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Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS) Archive

Bruce Schneier — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:02:22 +0000

There’s a new archive of all the papers from twenty-five years of the Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS). Really nice resource. It’s fun to reread my 2002 essay on the economics of information security.

My Talk at DEF CON

Bruce Schneier — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:06:24 +0000

Last month, I gave a talk at DEF CON on AI hacking: what happens when AIs become hackers. It’s a combination of the potentialities I raised in my 2022 book A Hacker’s Mind and the lessons we’re learning from current AI models engaging...

Black Hat State of Security Vendors

Bruce Schneier — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:54:50 +0000

Andy Ellis has a roundup of the security vendors at Black Hat this year.

Key Takeaways: We have entered into an AI world. While nearly half of booths didn’t directly mention AI or agents in their taglines, the effects of AI are everywhere. Multiple spaces (Identity, SaaS, AppSec, Data) have almost every vendor leading with AI; existing unsolved problem areas just got worse.

At the same time, there’s a clear trichotomy in the market: tools that tell you how bad things are; tools that stop adversaries, and tools that prevent problems from occurring. While you’d suspect that the tools that fix things would dominate, the tools that merely tell you how bad things are seem to be frustratingly plentiful...

Community, Coffee, and Code: A Zabbix Summit 2025 Recap

Michael Kammer — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:30:34 +0000

Zabbix Summit 2025 is officially in the history books, so now is the perfect time for a casual, behind‑the‑scenes…

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Expand your Knowledge at Zabbix Summit 2025

Michael Kammer — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:00:38 +0000

October is just around the corner, and that annual shift into Q4 can mean only one thing – it’s…

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Report from the Cambridge Cybercrime Conference

Bruce Schneier — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:46:05 +0000

The Cambridge Cybercrime Conference was held on 23 June. Summaries of the presentations are here.

Reimagining Democracy

B. Schneier — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:35:00 +0000

Imagine that all of us—all of society—have landed on some alien planet and need to form a government: clean slate. We do not have any legacy systems from the United States or any other country. We do not have any special or unique interests to perturb our thinking. How would we govern ourselves? It is unlikely that we would use the systems we have today. Modern representative democracy was the best form of government that eighteenth-century technology could invent. The twenty-first century is very different: scientifically, technically, and philosophically. For example, eighteenth-century democracy was designed under the assumption that travel and communications were both hard...

Using Frontend Scripts to the Max with Rick van der Ploeg

Michael Kammer — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:00:12 +0000

Zabbix Conference Benelux 2025 is right around the corner, which means that it’s time for another interview with a…

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Feeding Zabbix MQTT Data with Ivo Schooneman

Michael Kammer — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:10:03 +0000

This year’s Zabbix Conference Benelux is rapidly approaching, and to whet our audience’s appetite we sat down for a…

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Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2024)

Bruce Schneier — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:58:39 +0000

Last month, Henry Farrell and I convened the Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2024) at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg Center in Washington DC. This is a small, invitational workshop on the future of democracy. As with the previous two workshops, the goal was to bring together a diverse set of political scientists, law professors, philosophers, AI researchers and other industry practitioners, political activists, and creative types (including science fiction writers) to discuss how democracy might be reimagined in the current century...

Zabbix for MSPs with Andre Morton

Michael Kammer — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 08:00:04 +0000

To help make sure that everyone’s up to speed with Zabbix Summit 2024 speakers and their topics, we’re continuing…

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Monitoring MariaDB Clusters and MaxScale with Anders Karlsson

Michael Kammer — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 08:01:15 +0000

The heart and soul of a Zabbix Summit is the wide range of expert speakers who show up each…

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What’s in Store at Summit ‘24?

Michael Kammer — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:30:21 +0000

October means different things to different people – it’s springtime in the Southern Hemisphere, autumn in the Northern Hemisphere,…

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Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2024

Bruce Schneier — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:55:28 +0000

This week, I hosted the seventeenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior at the Harvard Kennedy School. This is the first workshop since our co-founder, Ross Anderson, died unexpectedly.

SHB is a small, annual, invitational workshop of people studying various aspects of the human side of security. The fifty or so attendees include psychologists, economists, computer security researchers, criminologists, sociologists, political scientists, designers, lawyers, philosophers, anthropologists, geographers, neuroscientists, business school professors, and a smattering of others. It’s not just an interdisciplinary event; most of the people here are individually interdisciplinary...

What Makes a Zabbix Conference Benelux Special?

Michael Kammer — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:00:57 +0000

Zabbix has always seen our mission as going beyond simply delivering a product. From the start, building a strong…

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Discover A World of Opportunity at Zabbix Meetings

Michael Kammer — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 11:52:10 +0000

From the very beginning, Zabbix has been fortunate to have a large, diverse, and truly global community. Engaging with…

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Zabbix Conference Latam: living real connections

Fernanda Moraes — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:30:32 +0000

Zabbix Conference Latam 2024 is the 3rd edition of the event organized by Zabbix Latam. Understand how this strengthens the Zabbix Community her.

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Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy

Bruce Schneier — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:03:23 +0000

Last month, I convened the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2023) at the Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center. As with IWORD 2022, the goal was to bring together a diverse set of thinkers and practitioners to talk about how democracy might be reimagined for the twenty-first century.

My thinking is very broad here. Modern democracy was invented in the mid-eighteenth century, using mid-eighteenth-century technology. Were democracy to be invented from scratch today, with today’s technologies, it would look very different. Representation would look different. Adjudication would look different. Resource allocation and reallocation would look different. Everything would look different, because we would have much more powerful technology to build on and no legacy systems to worry about...

A Look Back at Zabbix Summit 2023

Michael Kammer — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:10:05 +0000

Autumn in the Latvian capital of Riga is marked by a variety of traditions. The leaves fall, the rainy…

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Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2023

Bruce Schneier — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:07:58 +0000

I’m just back from the sixteenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, hosted by Alessandro Acquisti at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

SHB is a small, annual, invitational workshop of people studying various aspects of the human side of security, organized each year by Alessandro Acquisti, Ross Anderson, and myself. The fifty or so attendees include psychologists, economists, computer security researchers, criminologists, sociologists, political scientists, designers, lawyers, philosophers, anthropologists, geographers, neuroscientists, business school professors, and a smattering of others. It’s not just an interdisciplinary event; most of the people here are individually interdisciplinary...