Your Security Awareness Training Isn’t Working

Humans are the biggest risk to an organization’s cybersecurity posture, and it might be a bigger risk than many realize. According to research from Elevate Security, human behavior had a direct role in 88% of total losses in the largest cybersecurity … Continue reading Your Security Awareness Training Isn’t Working

Of Pipelines And Cybersecurity

One of the scariest phrases I have ever encountered is “gasoline pipeline” –thousands of miles of three foot diameter pipes buried in the ground for decades carrying billions of gallons of one of the most dangerous substances we encounter every day. R… Continue reading Of Pipelines And Cybersecurity

Will Full Autonomy Ever Be Realized?

Matt Novak of Gizmodo posted an article on April 30, 2021 with the title “Elon Musk Shares Painfully Obvious Idea About the Difficulty of Self-Driving Cars,” available at Elon Musk Shares Painfully Obvious Idea About the Difficulty of Self-Driving Cars… Continue reading Will Full Autonomy Ever Be Realized?

Federal Court Permits Warrantless Device Searches at Border

With the weather getting warmer, and vaccinations against COVID-19 increasing, we are likely to see an increase in travel — including international business travel. But for individuals and companies seeking to protect their data privacy, a recen… Continue reading Federal Court Permits Warrantless Device Searches at Border

New competition allows cybersecurity leaders to test their knowledge and skills

Wwhat can security leaders do to make sure they’re prepared and hone their skills ahead of the next inevitable threat? Now, they can test themselves and their knowledge at a new website, The CISO Challenge. Launched by XDR provider Cynet, it aims to le… Continue reading New competition allows cybersecurity leaders to test their knowledge and skills

Very Many Qualcomm Phone Chips Hiding Very Nasty Vulnerability

A high-severity bug affects almost 40% of Android phones. The security hole is in Qualcomm modems.
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Protecting Collaboration Channels for Remote Work

As COVID-19 unfolded in the first half of 2020, many of us set out to explore its long-term ramifications and imagine what the ‘new normal’ could look like. We also wanted to understand the second- or third-order effects of remote working and accelera… Continue reading Protecting Collaboration Channels for Remote Work

The Security Industry is Protecting the Wrong Thing

When the security industry talks about a data breach, often the first question asked involves the state of the victim’s network security – not the breach of data. Why is this? It’s because organizations have their security priorities… Continue reading The Security Industry is Protecting the Wrong Thing

Enterprises in the Crosshairs of Nation-State Attacks

In a recently released report sponsored by HP, Nation States, Cyberconflict and the Web of Profit, Dr. Mike McGuire, senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Surrey, claims a 100% rise in nation-state cyberincidents between 2017 and 2020. F… Continue reading Enterprises in the Crosshairs of Nation-State Attacks