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From the Fall 2021 Issue

Trade-Offs of Convenience: Social Logins, Password Managers and Other Single Points of Failure in User Authentication

Author(s):

Tina Gravel, SVP Global Channels and Alliances , Appgate

Trade Offs of Convenience

As every experienced CSO understands all too well, security is a continuous exercise in evaluating and balancing a nexus of trade-offs between risk, cost, and user experience. This calculation becomes especially tricky when it comes to weighing the trade-offs between how to properly authenticate a user and do so without degrading their experience. If you … Read more

From the Fall 2021 Issue

The Power of Automation

Author(s):

Mari Galloway, CEO, Founding Board Member, Women’s Society of Cyberjutsu

The Power of Automation

Orchestration and automation are two terms gaining notoriety, praise and progress in cybersecurity. Automation can save an organization 30% or more of their time allowing analysts and engineers to focus on more complex tasks. This time translates to 100’s of thousands of dollars over the course of a year. With so many options to choose … Read more

From the Fall 2021 Issue

Some Risks We Must Accept

Author(s):

Justin Petitt, Director, Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, Edgewater Federal Solutions

Larry Letow, CEO, U.S., CyberCX

RISK

“Is that a new breach? Or is it the same one we’re still talking about?” If you think you’re hearing about a company getting hacked almost every day, that’s because you’re paying attention; there were over 1,300 significantly damaging breaches of large businesses last year. That’s more than three per day on average, and that’s … Read more

From the Fall 2021 Issue

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Securing the Future

Author(s):

Connie Uthoff, Program Director, The George Washington University

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Securing the Future

In 2016, in his book The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, suggested that we have entered into a fourth industrial revolution, one defined by emerging technologies where physical and virtual systems work together.  He emphasized that, unlike the past, the fusion of breakthrough technologies like nanotechnology, 5G, 3D printing, … Read more

From the Fall 2021 Issue

Turn Your Company Into an Incubator for Cyber Talent

Author(s):

Bill Bonney, President, CISO DRG, Inc.

Turn Your Company Into an Incubator for Cyber Talent

We started planning our first true getaway vacation since the start of the pandemic, but this vacation would have a bit of a twist. It would be the first time leaving our rescue pup behind. We had adopted Henry just before California’s first shutdown. We started thinking about which of our pet parent friends might … Read more

From the Fall 2021 Issue

Staying Home May Be Good for Your Health, but Is It Good For Agency Security?

Author(s):

Colby Proffitt, Cybersecurity Strategist, Netskope

Staying Home May Be Good for Your Health, but Is It Good For Agency Security?

New survey findings suggest remote work and security still not mutually inclusive Multiple surveys on employee efficiency, happiness, and health have been conducted since the pandemic began in the Spring of 2020. Most have reached the same conclusions – a more flexible schedule, a more comfortable work environment, and the removal of the daily commute … Read more

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From the Summer 2021 Issue

Virginia Tech

Author(s):

Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech’s 100% online Master of Information Technology program has been ranked the No. 1 online graduate degree for cybersecurity nationwide in the 2019 rankings list from CyberDegrees.org, a Washington D.C. -based company.

From the Fall 2021 Issue

Stay Ahead of Hackers with ASM

Author(s):

-Mike Kelly, CEO, ProcessBolt

Gaurav Gaur, CTO, ProcessBolt

Stay Ahead of Hackers with ASM

Digital transformation has been a driving component of business strategy for the last several decades. Every business function was impacted, from finance to human resources and from manufacturing to sales and service. Current global dynamics such as climate change and COVID have increased the demand for digital transformation. For example, cloud computing can reduce a … Read more

From the Summer 2021 Issue

From the Publisher

Author(s):

Karen Austin, CEO, United States Cybersecurity Magazine

Greetings, Welcome to the Summer 2021 issue of the United States Cybersecurity Magazine!   As always, we’d like to take a moment to thank our supporters, members, sponsors, contributors and everyone else who makes the magazine possible.  All of us here at the United States Cybersecurity Magazine remain committed to bringing you, our readers, the … Read more

From the Summer 2021 Issue

From the Editor-in-Chief

Author(s):

Adam Firestone, Editor-in-Chief , United States Cybersecurity Magazine

Hello, The modern perspective on cybersecurity has ancient roots.  For millennia, humans have built walls, posted sentries, vetted their interlocutors, and established watchmen to ensure that behaviors and interactions meet established standards for propriety and orthodoxy (h/t to Juvenal; quis custodiet ipsos custodes indeed) in an effort to ensure that only those duly authorized have … Read more