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About: Me

Computers have been a passion of mine since I was at least 10 years old (think MS-DOS 3.2) and I've worked in IT since 1998, either as an engineer or architect with a strong security focus. I'm currently based in not-so-sunny Melbourne, Australia, working as a Security Architect for a large financial services firm.

My love for this field stems from its fast pace, immense challenges and incredibly smart community. I think a lot of people mistakenly see IT Security as a very nuts and bolts kind of place; probably somewhere the right side of your brain goes to curl up and die. In actual fact I find that it's totally the opposite. For me, IT Security is all about problem solving. After all, the more creative attacks become, the more creative you need to be to defend against them.

I plan to add more to this site over time, it really depends on the size of my work load which seems to have been growing exponentially over the last few years. Right now, my main areas of interest are:

You won't (ever) find me on MySpace or Facebook, and I'm still mulling over this whole Twitter thing (do I really care if you just had a delicious sandwich?), but I can definitely be reached via e-mail. My address is steve at this domain. My PGP public key is:
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