In July 2018, Special Counsel Robert Mueller charged thirteen Russians and three Russian organizations with conspiracy to defraud the United States by interfering with United States elections and political processes, wire fraud, and bank fraud.
Robert Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet and considered one of the founding fathers of the modern Internet, is renowned for many things, but perhaps none more so than his namesake law: Metcalfe’s Law. Metcalfe’s Law was initially presented in 1980 to describe the intrinsic value of a telecommunications network and has since been popularized as ‘The … Read more
Increased Focus on Configuration Management and Crown Jewels is Vital to Success Many experts in cybersecurity talk about the need for “intelligence-driven security,” but most consumers don’t know what to do with the Intelligence they are paying for or how to measure the value of the actions taken as a result of that Intelligence. This may be somewhat expected for … Read more
The Case Study of the 2021 Hacking of a Florida Water Treatment Plant We often hear “cyber” and often hear “leadership”. So, what is “cyber leadership” and how is it any different than leading any other senior position in business? First, let us define cyber as a noun with both tangible and intangible aspects. Cyber … Read more
The gravest warning a pen test report could contain are the words “The host may be vulnerable to remote code execution”. It is hard to know what that immediately means. Did they get system access on a host? Nope. Was there a public exploit available for that version of software that enabled remote code execution? … Read more
This is part two of a two-part article on secure key distribution in a post-quantum world. Part one focused on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) as a method to securely distribute encryption keys. This article will focus on Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), which seeks new quantum-resistant (i.e., hypothesized, but can’t be proven, to be secure against) cryptographic … Read more
The need for communications confidentiality has existed since humans developed language. Accounts of the Greco-Persian wars in fifth century B.C. described steganography, (hiding the existence of a message). Cryptography, on the other hand, hides a message’s meaning. The cryptographic task of encryption enables a sender to “scramble” a message’s content, rendering it unreadable to anyone … Read more
History defines who we are and informs how Americans chart the nation’s future. It underpins representative government. Increasingly, historical records and documents are being converted to digital formats. This promises to make essential information available to more Americans than before. There are also troubling implications. It takes only a cursory examination of recent events to … Read more
Cybersecurity has become a critical facet of our lives in the digital age and is often described as the fifth dimension of warfare (Land, Sea, Air, Space, and now, Cyberspace). A recent Forbes article, published on December 5, 2023, delves into the multifaceted world of cybersecurity, urging college students to recognize its significance and advocating … Read more
Security Operations Centers (SOCs) typically provided by Managed Security Services Providers (MSSP) can be a valuable asset to help protect a company against cyber threats and to help them to operate securely. With so many providers in the marketplace and many organizations having adopted an outsourced SOC arrangement, how can your organization tell if its … Read more
