I recently came across an interesting security blog article on the Dark Reading site – "Using The Human Perimeter To Detect Outside Attacks". This is particularly interesting because, as part of our ongoing efforts to improve the security of our network, earlier this year I developed a new "log cabin" service which allows users to review all their SSH and web authentications. As well as providing a web interface where you can peruse all your login activity for the last few months we also send out terse monthly summaries to everyone by email. These summaries list only the most "interesting" connection sources and help to encourage users to keep checking. I will be speaking about this project at the next FLOSS UK conference which will be held in Brighton in March 2014. The talk is titled "Crowd-Sourcing the Detection of Compromised User Accounts" and it will look at how users can become involved in the whole process of keeping their account secure. I particularly like the term "human perimeter" I might have to borrow that one.