In July, I gave a keynote speech at the 2009 annual conference of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) in Kyoto, Japan, that focused on the communications barrier facing computer security incident response professionals in their cross-cultural dealings with their Asian counterparts. This was the first and, thus far, only time I’ve [...]
I gave a keynote speech at the 2009 annual conference of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) in Kyoto, Japan, that talked about my observations of Japanese business operations, highlighting the differences that become barriers to communication. This morning, I had the privilege of seeing a write-up of the talk in IT [...]
The 2009 Annual Conference for FIRST is going to be held this year in Kyoto, Japan from 28 June-3 July. Owing to the fact that I live literally just down the road from Kyoto, I thought I would share some travel tips in a series of short articles that might help make arriving at and [...]
Welcome to Kyoto What city hosts the headquarters of Nintendo and has the second largest train station in Japan? Why, that’d be Kyoto! I guess the more popular things for which people know Kyoto are the myriad of historically significant locations, including the 17 locations in and around Kyoto that have been designated as a [...]
Welcome to Japan Unless you already live in Japan, the first step in getting to Kyoto is, of course, making landing at a port of entry and then traveling onward to the final destination. Kyoto’s situated in the center part of the largest island of Japan, about 100 km north of Osaka; Kyoto itself is [...]
Ever since my earliest days working in Silicon Valley, I have been involved in computer security incident response management. And so it was with great pleasure that I accepted a keynote speaking opportunity at the upcoming annual meeting of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) during 28 June-3 July 2009 in nearby [...]
