Brenda

Brenda has been working in various IT-related capacities (programming, system administration and software security, usually simultaneously) since 1993 or so. The pattern is clear: she gets in, determines the lay of the land, identifies the ridiculously large human/computer collaboration which would run _much_ better with a different division of labor, converts her audience and a few collaborators, and whips up some software to automate the problem into submisssion. Recently, she has been analyzing the security of software systems on behalf of a Seattle-based consulting firm, with predictable results: analysis techniques that take the respective strengths and weaknesses of humans and computers into account, dividing labor accordingly.

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