Magnet Forensics’ Stephen Boyce on Collaboration, Automation, and Developing DFIR Skills

Christa Miller: As digital technology becomes more embedded into humans’ everyday lives, enhancing our efficiency at work, our social lives, even our health and movements, it likewise facilitates criminal activity. Growing in volume and complex… Continue reading Magnet Forensics’ Stephen Boyce on Collaboration, Automation, and Developing DFIR Skills

Automated Mushroom Cultivation Yields Delicious Fried Goodies

[Kyle Gabriel] knows mushrooms, and his years of experience really shine through in his thorough documentation of an automated mushroom cultivation environment, created with off-the-shelf sensors and hardware as much …read more Continue reading Automated Mushroom Cultivation Yields Delicious Fried Goodies

Enterprise PKI automation: The modern approach to certificate lifecycle management

Today’s modern enterprises face massive surges in the use of digital identities, both for machines, (servers, laptops and network devices) and for the humans who use them. In the wake of this identity explosion, it has never been more important for IT … Continue reading Enterprise PKI automation: The modern approach to certificate lifecycle management

Bridging the “front and back of the house”: A lesson in risk management

Between cloud proliferation, new tech infrastructure and tools and an increasingly distributed workforce, organizations are struggling to implement proper risk management practices. They often ignore one of the most important components of a solid risk… Continue reading Bridging the “front and back of the house”: A lesson in risk management

Short Bitcoin Heist: Topological Data Analysis For Ransomware Investigations

Hi, I’m Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora, and I’ll be presenting our ransomware detection work on the Bitcoin blockchain by using topological data analysis. This is joint work with professors Gel and Kantarcioglu from the University of Texas at D… Continue reading Short Bitcoin Heist: Topological Data Analysis For Ransomware Investigations

Preventing document fraud in a world built on digital trust

All digital markets are built on trust and that trust has been reduced to an algorithm driven by proof of identity, which currently remains heavily reliant on formal documents such as a passport or driving license. Anyone looking to misrepresent who th… Continue reading Preventing document fraud in a world built on digital trust

Valuing IT professionals to retain talent and reduce their stress

Keeping up with digital transformation (32%) and keeping talent in technical roles (26%) are the two biggest challenges organizations face today, an Ivanti survey of IT professionals reveals. Additionally, the study found that IT departments are viewed… Continue reading Valuing IT professionals to retain talent and reduce their stress

Shifting security further left: DevSecOps becoming SecDevOps

Veracode has revealed usage data that demonstrates cybersecurity is becoming more automated and componentized in line with modern software architectures and development practices. The analysis of 5,446,170 static scans and more than 310,000 apps over a… Continue reading Shifting security further left: DevSecOps becoming SecDevOps

The cybersecurity executive order is not all it’s cracked up to be

Seventy-two percent of federal cybersecurity leaders say the White House’s May 2021 Cybersecurity Executive Order (EO) addresses only a fraction of today’s cybersecurity challenges, according to a study from MeriTalk. The study – which surveyed 150 fed… Continue reading The cybersecurity executive order is not all it’s cracked up to be