Understanding personal computers’ hardware, operating systems, and applications is a good first step towards obtaining the knowledge and skill necessary for cyber literacy. Much of the existing cybersecurity literature centers around defending the complex digital … Read more
In @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex, Shane Harris wrote: The Internet offered a cloak of anonymity. Anyone could set up an e-mail address with a fake name using Google or Hotmail, which had … Read more
Shaquille O’Neal was easily one of the top 50 greatest NBA players, if not one of the greatest basketball players of all time. However, over his career, Shaq shot a paltry 0.527 free throw average. … Read more
Despite its ever-growing presence in federal agencies, shadow IT remains as difficult to define as it is to detect. Shadow IT generally refers to the trend of users adopting IT tools and solutions that are … Read more
The potential for entrepreneurship in information security has piqued the interest of many techies who haven’t yet had the opportunity to strike out on their own. The reasons for not starting a company vary almost … Read more
Cybersecurity is now more than ever a business requirement in every industry. The 2015 Verizon Data Breach Report estimates 700 million compromised records in all of 2014.1 Worse yet, that number only represents known/reported breaches. A … Read more
In Part One of this series, the idea of the three waves of security was introduced, with the Physical Security 1st Wave having established the principles and ideas of security used in the next two … Read more
Introduction Managing risks to mission accomplishment is what cybersecurity is all about. Most everyone in a given organization can agree on this as a goal, but getting mission owners, information technology (IT) providers, and security … Read more
Ping, ping, ping… You know what that sound means. It’s a hacker trying to break in through your front door. They want to reach your network, which is securing valuable data. So how do you … Read more
A New World 2014 taught us that massive security breaches are the new normal for U.S. companies, government agencies, and universities. Some of the most prominent were Target, Home Depot, Neiman Marcus, Apple’s iCloud, Michaels, … Read more
