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Make Yourself a “Goes Nowhere” Project for Adversaries

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Before we jump in, we need to make clear the following: no single solution will ever offer complete and total security. In fact, even multiple solutions designed to provide overlapping layers of security to your crown jewels will not provide “complete and total” security. But what any reasonably implemented solution should do is the following: slow down […]… Read More

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Shopping for Security: One Size Does Not Fit All

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Most of us have seen the pictures of shoppers in a certain retail establishment. A veritable zoo of people and their chosen fashions or lack thereof. Adults that make the everyday choice of picking clothing that just does not do their bodies justice. Security is very much like fashion. There are innumerable products, colors and […]… Read More

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The Challenge Facing Digital Forensics

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As new means consumers and the general public can increasingly use services such as Silent Circle, Talk a Tone, Frogger and Guerrilla Mail, digital forensics experts are being challenged to take a deeper dive into how to obtain information from devices, networks and computers. The more of these types of technologies there are, the more […]… Read More

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Women in Information Security: Dr. Jessica Barker

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My last series of interviews on women (and non-males) in information security was really popular. I spoke to some amazing minds in the cybersecurity field last fall. As spring arrived, I figured that there are probably a lot more professionals in our field who also have interesting stories to tell. Encouraging more non-males to enter […]… Read More

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March 2017: The Month in Ransomware

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Whatever the reason is, ransomware activity skyrocketed last month. An influx of crude, unprofessionally tailored samples bombarded home users and enterprises, sometimes simply destroying data beyond recovery due to broken crypto. Meanwhile, high-profile threats like Spora, Sage, Cerber and Jigsaw became more sophisticated. The statistics for March are as follows: threat actors released 46 new […]… Read More

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Book Review: The Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick

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I was fortunate enough to meet the author, Kevin Mitnick, while attending RSA in February. I was given a signed copy of The Art of Invisibility, one of The State Security’s must-reads for infosec pros, so I made it a point to read the book. I knew a bit about Kevin’s past and had seen […]… Read More

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A Hacker’s Perspective on Cyber Security

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Just like cyber security professionals are constantly looking for ways to develop better and more secure software programs, hackers are always staying on top of the newest updates to overcome the latest defenses. In order to understand the importance of cyber security and how to stay ahead of hackers, it can be helpful to look […]… Read More

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Moving Beyond Network Security to a Data-Centric Approach

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In my last post, I briefly summarized the evolution of network security. I will now discuss how network security strategies are no longer meeting the needs of organizations’ increasingly complex IT environments. A Different Strategy Technological innovation has changed the nature of the network itself. No longer are employees limited to their workstation or possibly […]… Read More

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Immutable Integrity? – Blockchain Beyond the Bluster

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Sometimes you could be forgiven for thinking that the incessant overuse of the word ‘disruptive’ these days could do with some, well, disrupting of its own. So much is written, presented and marketed around apparently ‘disruptive’ use of technologies like AI, IoT and of course blockchain, when much of it could perhaps be better described […]… Read More

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iCloud Hacking: The Cybersecurity Gift that Keeps on Giving

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You probably remember the massive iCloud breach in 2014 that resulted in compromised celebrity photos spreading through the internet like wildfire. That egregious invasion of privacy caused great embarrassment and damage to the reputations of nearly 100 A-list stars. Fortunately, these bad deeds did not go unpunished. In 2016, two men were brought to justice for […]… Read More

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