Collaborate Disseminate
TiaraCon started with a group of women having lunch in the foodcourt at Def Con last year. It was an oasis in the midst of testosterone. We bonded over shared experiences, both good and bad, of being women in a field that is unquestionably male-dominated. And we really liked the opportunity to come together, since […]… Read More
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There is a deeper, hidden world all around us, but most of the population remains oblivious to it. An alien technology called exotic matter has broken through a dimensional barrier and leaks into our world through millions of pinprick-sized holes. This exotic matter subtly influences human creativity. Centered around the locations where this matter flows […]… Read More
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Working for a security services vendor provides me the opportunity to work with a variety of cool tools in our quest to develop new and innovative security services. The most recent project I was deeply involved in is the development of a DNS security service called SecureSurf. The foundational goal of the design of this […]… Read More
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The majority of employees within an organisation are hired to execute specific jobs, such as marketing, managing projects, manufacturing goods and overseeing financial investments. Their main – sometimes only – priority is to efficiently complete their core business activity, so information security is usually only a secondary consideration. Consequently, employees are oftentimes reluctant to invest […]… Read More
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When I first caught wind in March of how a bank heist failed to net $1 billion due to typos, I was hooked. It wasn’t the typos; it was that attackers had been able to bypass one of the most supposedly secure systems in place: SWIFT, the trusted bank messengering system. We assume that banks […]… Read More
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With 500,000 expected tourists and 10,500 athletes from all around the world set to descend on Rio for the upcoming summer Olympics, Zika and petty theft are not the only threats visitors will face. While there will be at least 85,000 security professionals providing physical security—almost double the amount at the 2012 London Games—all the […]… Read More
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In the first and second part of this series, we introduced the risks of the IoT / IoE world and addressed the mandatory security design considerations around the C-I-A triplet; the concepts of “openness;” the secure system and SDLC; the 4 “A”s; as well as the term “non-repudiation.” To continue with our overview, we will […]… Read More
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One of the dominant tech stories of the year has been the Netflix crackdown on VPN users, and six months in, the story continues to rumble on. Despite widespread criticism, Netflix is still attempting to, slowly but surely, block access to its service from each and every VPN. To look at some of the media […]… Read More
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Breaches involving stolen credentials don’t surprise anyone these days. Those of us in infosec know too well that it’s a thousand times easier for the bad guys to gain access to a network and fly under the radar with a stolen login—often obtained through social engineering—than it is to get through cyber defenses. From the bad […]… Read More
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You’ve managed fine on your own for years, but suddenly there’s a new security data scientist in your life. You’re excited at the possibilities, but can you really make it work? Here are five sure-fire ways to turn that initial buzz into a perfect partnership, so that your data scientist can deliver the insights you’re […]… Read More
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