I’d mentioned in another post that I’d do some research on Kerala-Russia connection and get back. This post is in response to that. First some context on what we’ve been doing. Background Wife read the post on Oru Sangeerthanam Pole and really got fascinated by Perumbadavam and Dostoyevsky. She got busy reading articles on Dostoyevsky and Perumbadavam and also a couple of Perumbadavam’s interviews on Youtube.

Background While writing a note about My Reading Journey, I was reminded that I hadn’t put a section on list of books related to Computer Science in My Reading List. Was reminded of that again when I read today’s WSJ. The paper had a section towards the end dedicated to Cybersecurity.

Zero Trust Networks: Building Secure Systems in Untrusted Networks 1st Edition1 Thoughts There is no better time to read this book than now. We’re at a point in history where were have examples of massive data breaches in the past to study from, and also an unprecedented number of businesses going online at a rapid pace, accelerated by shelter-in-place rules enforced to stem the spread of covid-19 virus.

Came across a list of Threat Models in a book on Zero Trust Networks that I just started reading. I had heard of two models in the past - STRIDE and DREAD in the context of security thread classification and ranking for Cyber-physical systems Seifert & Reza (2016). Before going into the popular models, what is Threat Modeling?

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The book is about Alex, a plant manager who is in the middle of a very difficult situation. Everything seems to be falling apart. Shipments are always late, backlog is growing, factory is bleeding money though every single person is working hard all the time. The VP comes to the factory and asks about an order that is seven-weeks overdue.

In the post about my reading journey, I had mentioned a few poems that were my favorite. Thought I’d just put them all here. One place to come back to read them over and again! The Arrow and the Song I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where;

While I was walking down the memory lane yesterday, I remembered meeting RR in Chennai and his gift of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. We were best friends in school and I had lost touch with him during engineering. One day there was an email and he said he was in Chennai.

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” ~ Emerson Had a dream about me being in Chennai and being asked about a book that I was reading. I don’t quite remember who it was, but it was someone happy to see me with a book.

Intro Wanted to create an API spec for brainstorming an API that we’re developing. Swagger is probably the most popular API design tool. I had used Apiary (https://apiary.io/) in the past (2013-14). It had features like defining the API spec using yaml and it getting rendered beautifully as API documentation. Nothing like a great API documentation that shows different methods, parameters, objects, input/output status codes and even a server/sandbox to try it out.