Greetings, Welcome to the Summer 2018 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 … Read more
The dark web has been sensationalized in the news, movies, and on television dramas. The dark web, and the less commonly discussed deep web, make up a part of the internet that is not accessible … Read more
What Happened On June 27, 2017 the NotPetya malware hit the Ukraine, targeting Kyivenergo, an electric power supplier to Kiev. NotPetya went on to hit a shipping company, Maersk, a pharmaceutical company, Merck, and a … Read more
The Shift Left principle1 is well known in software and systems development, particularly in relation to testing. It’s the idea of performing test activities earlier in the system development life cycle – developing test cases … Read more
Crowdsourced security programs have grown in popularity to the point where some enterprises have dispensed with traditional pentesting, using the crowdsourced model exclusively for auditing the security of their applications and infrastructure. What is Crowdsourced … Read more
Much of cyber defense today relies on the same approach used in kinetic defense over the last few thousand years. We use hard perimeters (firewalls) to repel attacks, sentries (IDSs) to trigger incident response, and … Read more
This is the second part of a two-part article exploring the history of pre-computer cryptography. Part 1 focused on the period from the birth of cryptography some 4,000 years ago to the development of early … Read more
The trust put into any network is reliant on three main components: reliable hardware, strong software, and capable, aware people. Network trust, whether implicit or direct, is important for holding the fabric of any … Read more
To build the cyber-educated workforce capable of supporting the needs of government, industry and academia, communities across the country are adapting to the evolving economic and technological landscape. Louisiana, for example, has seen its economic … Read more
Since 2014 the mission of Google’s Project Zero has been to make the Internet a more secure place through the discovery and responsible publishing of vulnerabilities. While Google works with vendors to ensure a patch … Read more
