{"id":2247,"date":"2014-03-24T08:13:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T12:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2014-03-24T08:13:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T12:13:24","slug":"integrisure-the-business-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2247","title":{"rendered":"integrisure &#8211; the business that never was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time I have been interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2006\/05\/05\/beware-the-fury-of-a-patient-man\/#.UyyA861dUrY\">real<\/a>, actual, legitimate <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/tag\/security\/#.UyyBT61dUrY\">security<\/a>. I am not a fan of the widespread use of security theater in our &#8220;post-9\/11 world&#8221;, as {{Bruce Schneier}} calls it.<\/p>\n<p>Integrisure was\u00a0<em>supposed<\/em> to be a real-world {{pentesting}} of &#8220;secure&#8221; facilities,\u00a0<em>a la<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sneakers-Jo-Marr\/dp\/B000ID1J40\/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1395425590&amp;sr=8-7&amp;keywords=sneakers\">Sneakers.<\/a>\u00a0In late 2000 \/ early 2001, I was working on a business plan and the initial legwork to find out what licensing, certificationss, etc I would need to do security testing at locations like airports.<\/p>\n<p>Integrisure never happened. You can&#8217;t google it (well, ok &#8211; you\u00a0<em>can<\/em> google it\u00a0<strong>now<\/strong>: but you&#8217;ll only find this blog post and a bunch of unrelated businesses).<\/p>\n<p>The basic business plan was as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>establish contacts among management and security directors at various business and government facilities<\/li>\n<li>establish time ranges when we can arrive onsite<\/li>\n<li>using a team of known, documented, anonymous-looking individuals, find holes in security environments<\/li>\n<li>using always non-destructive means, attempt to tail-gate, leave &#8220;suspicious&#8221; items in conspicuous and inconspicuous locations, gain access to authorized zones, etc<\/li>\n<li>have plausible stories pre-built if anyone was &#8220;caught&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>report the results of our simulated attack, including all positives as well as issues, and provide consulting to our client &#8220;target&#8221; on how they could improve their physical security<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More detailed aspects of the planned business were discussed, and written down, between myself and a couple of other folks who wanted to start with me.<\/p>\n<p>We had a start date planned: we would form the company in Jan 2002 (so our fiscal year would align with the calendar year). We had several initial employee\/contractors identified &#8211; some current or former military members, technical folks, and others.<\/p>\n<p>I had even contacted a couple local companies that did security guard services to see if this was something they would either like to offer as a service, or would help participate in coordinating with their contacts.<\/p>\n<p>Life was looking good. I graduated in May 2001 with my AAS, had some solid job prospects in computer programming and IT work, and was lining-up who I expected would be a great team to start Integrisure&#8217;s activities.<\/p>\n<p>Then 9\/11 <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2008\/09\/11\/seven-years-ago-what-were-you-doing\/#.UyyFYa1dUrY\">happened<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Airport &#8220;security&#8221; was federalized, my two front-running programming\/IT jobs went on hold and\/or laid people off (most of their customers were in downtown Manhattan), and suddenly private companies checking for holes in security were not going to fly. (<em>Especially<\/em> at airports! \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time I have been interested in real, actual, legitimate security. I am not a fan of the widespread use of security theater in our &#8220;post-9\/11 world&#8221;, as {{Bruce Schneier}} calls it. Integrisure was\u00a0supposed to be a real-world {{pentesting}} of &#8220;secure&#8221; facilities,\u00a0a la Sneakers.\u00a0In late 2000 \/ early 2001, I was working on &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2247\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">integrisure &#8211; the business that never was<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,31,48],"tags":[668],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-personal","category-work","tag-security"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}