From the Winter 2015 Issue

Seeing the Entire Elephant: Or,You’re Not Secure if You’re Not Completely Secure

Author(s):

Anne Kohnke, Assistant Professor of IT, Lawrence Technological University

Dan Shoemaker, Professor - Center for Cyber Security, University of Detroit Mercy

Almost everybody thinks, or would like to think, that the systems that power our society are secure. That would be a seriously incorrect assumption. The fact is that America’s electronic infrastructure is riddled with the … Read more

From the Winter 2015 Issue

Cybersecurity’s Three Great Lies – and Five Steps to Avoid the Threats They Enable

Author(s):

Christina Wiegand, Director of Commercial Services, TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) Cyber Intelligence Group

When hackers look for targets, they typically focus on big organizations because they’re the ones with the most credit cards, state secrets and other lucrative hauls, right? Wrong. As the widely reported Target credit card … Read more

From the Winter 2015 Issue

THE TOP 12 SECURITY BREACH FACTS EVERY C-LEVEL EXECUTIVE AND BOARD MEMBER MUST KNOW

Author(s):

Eric L. Qualkenbush, Director, Office of Central Cover; Director, Training and Education, retired, Central Intelligence Agency

T. Casey Fleming, Chairman and CEO, BLACKOPS Partners Corporation

Magnitude of the Threat  Over $500B of innovation and trade secrets secretly stolen each year: this means nearly every company with trade secrets is constantly targeted and compromised. The equivalent of $5 Trillion in total … Read more