Collaborate Disseminate
Much attention has been paid to the widespread failure to detect the insidious Sunburst malware that the SolarWinds hackers managed to slip deep inside the best-defended networks on the planet.
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But th… Continue reading RSAC insights: Deploying SOAR, XDR along with better threat intel stiffens network defense
It’s accurate to say that security has been bolted onto modern business networks.
It also has become very clear that we won’t achieve the full potential of digital transformation without security somehow getting intricately woven into every layer of co… Continue reading RSAC insights: ‘SASE’ disrupts networking by meshing security, connectivity at the services edge
It’s only February, and 2021 already is rapidly shaping up to be the year of supply-chain hacks.
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The latest twist: mobile network operator UScellular on Jan. 21 disclosed how cybercriminals broke into its Custom… Continue reading ROUNDTABLE: Targeting the supply-chain: SolarWinds, then Mimecast and now UScellular
Plato once sagely observed, “A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”
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That advice resonates today, even as we deepen our reliance on number crunching — … (more…)
The po… Continue reading MY TAKE: With disinformation running rampant, embedding ethics into AI has become vital
Finally, Facebook and Twitter muzzled Donald Trump, preventing him from using his favorite online bully pulpits to spread disinformation. It only took Trump inciting a failed coup d’état that cost five lives.
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How did we get to this level of disinformation? How did we, the citizens of the United States of America, become so intensely divided?
It’s tempting to place the lion’s share of the blame on feckless political leaders and facile … (more…)
The post MY … Continue reading MY TAKE: How Russia is leveraging insecure mobile apps to radicalize disaffected males
The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favor… Continue reading MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems
What do wildfires and credential stuffing have in common?
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For several years now, both have flared up and caused harm at the fringes of population centers and our digital economy. And, now, in 2020, … (more…)… Continue reading MY TAKE: How ‘credential stuffing’ is being deployed to influence elections, steal Covid-19 relief
Graham Ivan Clark, Onel de Guzman and Michael Calce. These three names will go down in the history of internet commerce, right alongside Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.
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We’re … (… Continue reading MY TAKE: Lessons learned from the summer of script kiddies hacking Twitter, TikTok
It took a global pandemic and the death of George Floyd to put deep-seated social inequities, especially systemic racism, front and center for intense public debate.
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We … Continue reading MY TAKE: Even Google CEO Sundar Pichai agrees that it is imperative to embed ethics into AI