Collaborate Disseminate
They say you should never meet your heroes—often they will just disappoint you. But thankfully, there are also exceptions to this rule. In this five-part series, I will be introducing you to five of my key cyber security/infosec heroes. These individuals inspire me to continuously strive for more, with one even motivating me to move […]… Read More
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For a cybersecurity program to succeed, it must identify the assets it aims to protect. Without a clear understanding of its assets, no organization can truly understand the value of its resources, assess the risks they face, or understand how much to spend to secure its infrastructure. Unfortunately, the process of identification is not getting any […]… Read More
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We’re all fairly knowledgeable about how to deal with security issues for email. We don’t open emails that come from someone we don’t know, for example, and if we do, we’re certainly wary about clicking on links. These same malicious tools can be used with social media posts to infect people’s computers and smart devices. […]… Read More
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Have you ever thought about the possibility that your IoT-enabled camera could be controlled by a hacker if you’re not careful? Sounds a bit too much, doesn’t it? No one could even think of such a thing happening a few years ago. Unfortunately, as more and more IoT-enabled features and offerings have been introduced, the […]… Read More
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Is the internet monitored, or is it just hanging out there without anyone looking over it? That’s a very good question. The fact is that no one is looking over the internet in a supervisory kind of way aside from governments that may create legislation that has an influence in some way. It is up […]… Read More
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In my previous article, I discussed the clash of systems we currently are in. Super quick recap: in one corner, we have the Westphalian nation-state system that’s been around since 1648 and is built on the principles of sovereignty, legal equality and a policy of non-interventionism; in the other corner, we have the Internet, which […]… Read More
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They say you should never meet your heroes—often they will just disappoint you. But thankfully, there are also exceptions to this rule. In this series, I will be introducing you to five of my key cyber security/infosec heroes. These individuals inspire me to continuously strive for more, with one even motivating me to move across […]… Read More
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I am thrilled to be keynoting this year’s BSidesLV this week in Las Vegas with a talk on what I believe is the future of defense in cybersecurity: a better design of social and economic systems that incorporates modeling for the human factor and a renewed focus on human outcomes. Big data, behavioral analytics, machine […]… Read More
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So many banks in so little time. We should expect cyber attacks on financial institutions because it’s just so much easier to pillage online than to coordinate a get-away car, guns, and comfortable ski masks. Over the past year, exploits against banks have seriously upped their game: jackpotting ATMs, DDoS, and messing with trusted messengers. […]… Read More
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The progression of virtualization technology has produced a high demand for similar capabilities in network communication. Traditional networking technologies in switching and routing devices provide limited abilities for the virtualization space due to the lack of controlling and tailoring network traffic on virtual machines (VM). Software-defined networking (SDN) has become a solution for this high […]… Read More
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