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Super Bowl “Digital Deflategate” is Not Just Air

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When we think of large entertainment venues and events, it’s not just ticket fees and concessions anymore. Sporting is entertainment and this year’s Super Bowl LI (51) is one of the most complex, technologically orchestrated events in the world; ranging from tablet-based play books to RFID wearable sensors on players sending real time performance data…

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LiftLocker Keeps Your Lift Safe from Attacking Garage Doors

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Car lifts used to be a tool reserved for professional mechanics. Times are a-changing though. With the advent of reasonably priced four-post hydraulic lifts, more and more shade tree mechanics are joining the five-foot high club. Installing a lift in a home garage creates a few hazards, though. What happens when a family remotely opens the garage door while there is a car up on the lift? Garage door and lifted vehicle will meet – with expensive and/or dangerous results. [Joe Auman] saw this problem coming a mile away. He built the LiftLocker to make sure it never happens to …read more

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Identity Comes into Focus at RSA Conference

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We are less than two weeks away from RSA Conference, the world’s largest security event! This year’s theme – The Power of Opportunity – emphasizes “unity.” Clever, right? We think so. Not only is it a great time to call for unity in cybersecurity among vendors and practitioners, but also end users. Every day we’re…

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3 Steps to a Secure ICS Network

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Industrial Control Systems (ICS) attacks have a direct impact on people’s lives. The consequences of these attacks can be unpredictable, which is why ICS protection is a hot topic in security right now. Defining the right protection layer and best approach to secure communications in this environment is crucial. Historically, ICS departments operated independently from…

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“Up Your Game” to Close the Security Skills Gap

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Ask any CISO to name the top challenges of the job, and their first response is likely to be the security “skills gap” – the inability to find enough skilled people to handle an organization’s security needs. With over 200,000 security jobs unfilled in the U.S. alone, organizations, especially security operations centers (SOCs), are continuously…

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Mastering the implementation of a Threat Pattern

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In previous posts we have discussed two of the most critical phases in the “The Lifecycle of a Threat Pattern”: analysis and design. In the analysis phase the objective is to fully understand the asset in scope by getting deeper into the context to formulate a set of residual risks to which the asset might be…

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The Elephant in the Room for Endpoint Security

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Stop me if you’ve heard this story before… Three blind men are traveling down the road to visit a friend.  On the way, they encounter an elephant.  Not being able to see it, they each stopped and felt the elephant to figure out what sort of creature it was.  The first one grabbed the trunk…

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R-Evolution: The Evolution of Risk

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Ten years ago, when a user needed to access a corporate application, his or her usage was on a company-owned device and typically confined to company-owned networks. These applications were nicely tucked behind corporate firewalls, and managed by dedicated IT organizations. To identify themselves, users would often enter complex, lengthy passwords when accessing such resources,…

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The $5 Billion Fraud Problem

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When explaining my profession to people I meet, they often tell me about the time their card was “frauded.” I always enjoy this conversation, as it provides insight into the human victim element of a fraud event. The breadth of emotions typically ranges from, “How did this happen and how do we track down the…

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