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Secret from the Grill Cave: Cleaning Your Grill

bbqToday’s Secret from the Grill Cave is how to easily clean your grill grate whilst adding some flavour to your food. Simply:

  1. Cut a large onion in half and peal away the skin.
  2. Place each onion half in a small freezer bag and throw into the freezer for a later time.

When it comes time to grill:

  1. Give your grill a good brushing with a stiff grill brush.
  2. Pre-heat your grill to the desired temperature for the food you’re about to cook.
  3. Before placing the food on the grill, take the frozen onion half out of the freezer and place it, face down, on the grill.
  4. Using BBQ tongs, scrub your grill grate with the onion.
  5. Discard the used onion.

Any remaining debris will flake away and the added bonus is that this process will also add a wonderful hint of grilled onion flavour to whatever you’re grilling. Plus…it smells awesome!

Enjoy the weekend and remember, lighting yourself on fire hurts, so be careful 🙂

Announcing My New Job

Well the cat is finally out of the bag. As announced yesterday at SOURCE Boston I will be joining The 451 Group as the Senior Analyst primarily responsible for the SIEM, Log Management, GRC, Forensics, Vulnerability Analysis, and Penetration Testing portfolios…and I couldn’t be more excited!!!

To answer the usual questions:

  1. No, I’m not moving (at least not in the next 6 to 12 months). My new job affords me the ability to work remotely
  2. Yes, you’ll still see me at conferences. In fact, you might see me at more conferences 😉
  3. Yes, I’ll keep blogging…well as (in)frequent as ever I suppose
  4. Yes, my wife is thrilled…and I’m sure the dogs will be too since I’ll be home 99% of the time

The 451 Group is an independent technology-industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. The company’s analysts provide critical and timely insight into the market and competitive dynamics of innovation in emerging technology segments. Clients of the company—at vendor, investor, service-provider and end-user organizations—rely on The 451 Group’s insight to support both strategic and tactical decision-making for competitive advantage.

What does this mean exactly? Well it means that we help people make better, and more informed, decisions about their purchases and investments. You’ll be hearing more from me over the coming weeks but I’m so excited about this opportunity right now that I’m having a very difficult time articulating it.

Stay tuned!

So You Want to Write a Security Book, Eh? at #BSidesBOS

I will be presenting my talk entitled So You Want to Write a Security Book, Eh? at Security BSides Boston. The talk will take place at the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center research and software innovation campus located in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts at 11am on Saturday, April 24th, 2010.

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Have you ever thought about writing a security book, but were not sure where to start? What kind of book should you write? How do you get a publisher? What can you expect to make off your book?

Join Andrew Hay, author of the OSSEC Host-based Intrusion Detection Guide, Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring, and the Nokia Firewall, VPN, and IPSO Configuration Guide, to learn the pros and cons of being a security author and to learn if you’ve got what it takes to write the next great security book.

Please RSVP today!

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