Security Twits

There seems to be quite the little network security community growing on Twitter, which truthfully has made for some fascinating discussion over the last few weeks. However there are a few challenges:

• It’s really hard to find each other. Searches via Tweet Scan on the “security” keyword result in everything from complaining about physical security to debating homeland security to emo song lyrics.
• Not a whole lot of of security folks are yet on Twitter, and if they are, see bullet No. 1.
• Even if you find a security person and add them, unless they use Twitter Karma, they may not even know you’re following them due to Twitter’s unreliable and sporadic notification system.

What’s the solution? Twitter Packs, while a great tool, can be a bit daunting if you’re really trying to dig into one niche area, and really at this point only Twitter power users know about the packs. Ryan Naraine suggested to me yesterday that a separate list of “Security Twits” (really, guys, it’s not an insult — Twitter users = Twits) that the security community could manage itself would be a great tool. I agreed:

Event Twitter Feeds		Blog
Security Bloggers Meet-Up @ RSA *		Official Event Blog
SOURCE Boston *		SOURCE Boston Blog
Security Twits	Company	Blog
Abbi Cabanding
Adam O’Donnell	Cloudmark, Inc.	NP-Incomplete
Alan Shimel	StillSecure	StillSecure After All These Years
Alex Eckelberry	Sunbelt Software	Sunbelt Blog
Alex Hutton	Risk Management Insight	Risk Analysi.is
Amrit Williams	Big Fix	Tech Buddha
Andrew Jaquith *	Yankee Group
Andrew Storms	nCircle	360 Security
Andy Willingham	Trusted Catalysts	Andy IT Guy
Andrew Hay	Q1 Labs Inc.	Andrew Hay
Anton Chuvakin	LogLogic	Security Warrior
Apneet Jolly *	Neohapsis	A Jolly Life
Augusto P. Barros		Security Balance
Ben Jackson *		Innismir.net
B.K. DeLong *
Bob Rudis	Safeco	Rudis Dot Net
Chris Boyd	Facetime	VitalSecurity
Chris Eng *	Veracode
Chris Harrington	GreenPages	InfosecPodcast.com
Chris Wysopal	Veracode
Christian Heinrich
Christien Rioux *	Veracode
Christofer Hoff	Unisys	Rational Survivability
Craig Ingram *		Attrition.org
Damon Cortesi	IOActive	DCortesi.Blog
Dan Kaminsky	IOActive	Doxpara Research
Dan O’Neill		Techdulla
Dave Aitel	Immunity
Dave Ulevitch	OpenDNS
David Mortman		Securosis
Drazen Drazic *		Beast or Buddha
Eric Scott *	Microsoft
Ero Carrera *
Garrett Gee		Garrett Gee & Infosec Events
Hugo Campos *	Hackcraft
Jack Daniel		Uncommon Sense Security
Jason Pubal *	Specialty Retailer
Jeanne Friedman	RSA Conference	RSA Conference Blog
Jennifer Jabbusch *		Security Uncorked
Jennifer Leggio		Mediaphyter
Jesse Middleton	VirtualSmith	Srcasm
Joel Esler	Sourcefire / SANS	JoelEsler.net
Joshua Morin *		Br0ken Halo
John Hoffoss *		synapsecollapse
Kees Leune		Kees Leune
Kevin Riggins *		Infosec Ramblings
K.M. Peterson *		K.M. Peterson
Larry Walsh	Baseline / Ziff Davis
Lee Hinman		:wq
Leigh Hollowell *	Neohapsis
Martin McKeay	TrustWave	Network Security Blog & Podcast
Martin Roesch *	Sourcefire
Michael		MCW Research
Michael Dahn	The Aegenis Group	PCI Blog
Michael Farnum		An Information Security Place
Michael Henry *	Security Catalysts	Sinister Brain
Michael Ramm *		1-Man IT Dept
Mike K. *		The Mocking Eye
Mike Murray	Neohapsis	Episteme
Mike Schroepfer	Mozilla
Mitchell Ashley	The Converging Network	The Converging Network
Raffael Marty	Splunk	Raffy’s Computer Security Blog
Raffi Jamgotchian *		Floss Your Mind
Rich Mogull	Securosis	Securosis
Richard Stiennon		Stiennon on Security
Rob Cheyne	Safelight Security Advisors
Ryan Naraine	eWeek	Security Watch
Scott Roberts *		The Toga Foam Party
Space Rogue *		Space Rogue
Spud *
Stacy Thayer *	SOURCE Boston	SOURCE Boston Blog
Steve Manzuik		Random Things from Dark Places
Thomas H. Ptacek	Matasano Security	Matasano Chargen
Tim Krabec *		Security & Technology for SMB & SOHOs
Tim McDoniel *		Tim and Heike’s Blog
Ward Spangenberg	IOActive	Seriously Infosec
Wayne Porter *		Virtual Reality, Business & Society
Wesley McGrew		McGrew Security
Wil Knoll	AxiaSecure	Chekmate.org
Window Snyder	Mozilla	Mozilla Security Blog
Zach Lanier		n0where.org

So, what now? Click on the names above to view the Security Twits’ (I swear this is what it’s called…) Twitter pages, and if you’re on Twitter, add them to your follower list. If you’re not on Twitter, sign up. Whether it be Twitter or Pownce or Jaiku, micro-blogging is on fire right now, and based on research thus far the security network hasn’t spread as widely to the other two services — yet. If you’re new to Twitter, read this blog post on the must-haves for newbies.Send this list to your own security networks and recruit more Security Twits. Comment below if you have any corrections or additions. This blog post will serve as a living document. When a suggestion is made in the comment section, I will update the blog post as appropriate.

Oh, and if you want to add me to your Twitter feed, I am over here. I’ll post an update whenever this list is improved and enhanced. Feedback is always welcome.

Last Update: March. 23, 2008

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