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Cyber crime is a serious and growing problem, with experts predicting that it will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021. And as seen in recent high-profile hacks and data breaches involving U.S. government agencies (the NSA, the Office of Person… Continue reading Why You Should Consider a Career in Government Cyber Security
When concepts like DevOps and Cloud computing come together, this powerful combination propels organizational growth at a rapid speed. Some trends in today’s industry have helped bring about the collaboration of these two most important change ag… Continue reading DevOps and Cloud: The Match that Drives Today’s Businesses
I’m an executive-level security headhunter. That means I spend a lot of my week doing two things: talking to CISOs or those people ready to be CISOs and consulting with companies that are in the market for a security leader. My experience is that… Continue reading Some Dos and Don’ts for Hiring Your Security Leader
The instant a device is connected to the internet, it gets scanned and interrogated for open ports, software versions, and default passwords. Who conducts these scans and why? When you connect to the internet, what kind of attacks will you immediately … Continue reading BSidesLV Preview: Who Watches the Watchers?: Understanding the Internet’s Background Noise
The instant a device is connected to the internet, it gets scanned and interrogated for open ports, software versions, and default passwords. Who conducts these scans and why? When you connect to the internet, what kind of attacks will you immediately … Continue reading BSidesLV Preview: Who Watches the Watchers?: Understanding the Internet’s Background Noise
The famed bank robber Willie Sutton once said “I rob banks because that’s where the money is.” These days, botnet operators would say the same thing about retail sites and marketplaces. The nexus of fraud activity has shifted away fro… Continue reading BSidesLV Preview: Fighting Fraud in the Trenches
On the heels of last month’s White House reorganization plan, the state of cybersecurity careers within the government is changing. In part, this plan aims to address several pressing issues in the job category within the context of government em… Continue reading How the Federal Government Is Working to Improve Its Cybersecurity Workforce
Zero-day attacks have businesses and consumers alike worried about how to protect data. If we don’t know what a threat looks like, can we really protect ourselves against it? For some time, security tools have been developed with the objective of… Continue reading How to Spot a Zero-Day Sight-Unseen
Last time, I got the opportunity to speak with Jessica Hebenstreit. Not only is she a senior security consultant who has had a lot of different roles; she’s also the chief Operating Officer of the Diana Initiative. I learned a lot from our discus… Continue reading Women in Information Security: Monica Jain
In the age of DevOps, application security is an increasing concern for organizations. But attention on application-specific security bugs is comparatively low. We have extensive online security scanners for testing online threats, but they are not so … Continue reading Digging for Security Bugs / Vulnerabilities in Python Applications