Fast-Changing Security Landscape May Render This Year’s RSA Conference the “Most Human” Edition Ever

While mind-blowing technological innovations are being demonstrated and perspective-shifting strategies and philosophies shared in every corner of next week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco, it’s very possible that the gathering of more than 50,000 cy… Continue reading Fast-Changing Security Landscape May Render This Year’s RSA Conference the “Most Human” Edition Ever

No Avoiding the Inevitable: The Time for Cyber Security Analytics is Now

Cyber security used to be so easy. Set up a perimeter, keep everything out, and eliminate any anomalies. But then the Internet happened, and then the cloud, and now the Internet of Things, and suddenly, we’re not in Kansas anymore. Security has become … Continue reading No Avoiding the Inevitable: The Time for Cyber Security Analytics is Now

Warning to the Big Tech Companies: Google’s GDPR Fine Likely a Harbinger of Things to Come

It’s the regulatory version of Y2K, they said. It’s there to appease all the privacy advocates, they insisted. It’ll never result in any fines, some suggested. And when Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation went into effect last May, the general … Continue reading Warning to the Big Tech Companies: Google’s GDPR Fine Likely a Harbinger of Things to Come

2018 Wasn’t Exactly a Banner Year for Consumer Data Privacy; Expect it to Be a Big Topic in 2019

Here’s the thing about privacy: When there weren’t so many ways to compromise it, it was pretty easy to protect. But with privacy having evolved into an immensely more complicated concept than it was pre-Internet, protecting it has also become more com… Continue reading 2018 Wasn’t Exactly a Banner Year for Consumer Data Privacy; Expect it to Be a Big Topic in 2019

The Dichotomy of the IoT: Huge Business Opportunities, But Even Bigger Cyber Security Holes

So, about this Internet of Things, uh, thing. There may be a slight problem. As the world rushes to connect anything and everything to the Internet, the resulting explosion of IoT devices presents one of the most challenging and complicated threats tha… Continue reading The Dichotomy of the IoT: Huge Business Opportunities, But Even Bigger Cyber Security Holes

The Push For More Women in Cybersecurity: Baby Steps Need to Give Way to Bigger Leaps

In recent years, the topic of the lack of women in the cybersecurity workforce has been somewhat of a cause célèbre, but the results of efforts to promote progress have been mixed at best. Anyone who has walked around the annual RSA Conferenc… Continue reading The Push For More Women in Cybersecurity: Baby Steps Need to Give Way to Bigger Leaps