Collaborate Disseminate
To the surprise of many, public cloud appears to be driving a renaissance in adoption and advancement of managed security service providers (MSSP).
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Continue reading The Symbiosis Between Public Cloud and MSSPs
Many of the most innovative security start-ups I come across share a common heritage – their core product evolved from a need to automate the delivery of an advanced service that had begun as a boutique or specialized consulting offering. Start-ups wit… Continue reading From APES to Bespoke Security Automated as a Service
With two of the largest public cloud providers having launched their cloud Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) products and an inevitability that the remainder of the top 5 cloud providers will launch their own permutations some time this … Continue reading To Reach SIEM’s Promise, Take a Lesson From World War II
While viruses and malware have stubbornly stayed as a top-10 “things I lose sleep over as a CISO,” the overall threat has been steadily declining for a decade. Unfortunately, WannaCry, NotPetya, and an entourage of related self-propagating ransomware a… Continue reading Get Ready for the First Wave of AI Malware
Perimeter-based DLP Enforcement Has Increasingly Taken a Backseat to Host-based Implementations
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Continue reading From Traffic Cop to Fleet Manager, DLP Evolves Beyond the Perimeter
Following on from my C64 hacking days, but in parallel to my BBS Hacking, this final part looks at my early hardware hacking and creation of a new class of meteorological research radar…
Ever since that first C64 and through the x86 years, I’d … Continue reading Hacker History III: Professional Hardware Hacker
Post-C64 Hacking (in Part 1 of Hacker History)… now on to Part 2: The BBS Years
Late 1986 (a few months before I started my first non-newspaper delivery and non-family-business job – working at a local supermarket) I launched my first bulletin … Continue reading Hacker History II: The BBS Years
Curiosity is a wonderful thing; and the key ingredient to making a hacker. All the best hackers I know are not only deeply curious creatures but have a driving desire to share the knowledge they uncover. That curiosity and sharing underpins much of the… Continue reading Hacker History I: Getting Started as a Hacker
Policing in the 21st Century is obviously changing rapidly. New technological advances are fundamentally changing the way in which police forces and related government entities can track, locate, and collect evidence.
Two game changing technologies – w… Continue reading Ubiquitous Video Surveillance and the Policing Paradigm Change it Brings
The information security industry, lacking social inhibitions, generally rolls its eyes at anything remotely hinting to be a “silver bullet” for security. Despite that obvious hint, marketing teams remain undeterred at labeling their companies upcomin… Continue reading The Diet Pill Security Model