Silver Bullet Talks with Becky Bace

B ecky Bace, one of the luminaries of computer security, grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She spent 12 years at the US National Security Agency (NSA), where her work focused on intrusion detection and cryptography. Currently, Bace is a venture consultant with the venture capital firm Trident Capital in Palo Alto, California. Featured here is an excerpt adapted from the full interview between Bace and Silver Bullet host Gary McGraw. Their conversation ranged widely, from explosives to vulnerability disclosure to venture capital. You can listen to the podcast in its entirety at www.computer. org/security/podcast/ or www. cigital.com/silverbullet, and you can subscribe to the series on iTunes.