The corporate workplace is rapidly changing. Traditional norms of working at a physical location are becoming obsolete and working remotely is the new norm. A recent study suggest that more than 40 percent of Americans … Read more
The days where war only exists on the battlefield are long gone. Today some of the greatest risks we face are in cyberspace, carried out by nation-state sponsored attackers. What are the threats to individuals, … Read more
Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan (CIRP) is a crucial consideration for today’s information technology leadership. Attacks are rising in both frequency and severity. The impact is often severe; organizations are disrupted with resulting downtime losses. Although … Read more
Small businesses are rapidly becoming a prime target for malicious actors. The 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) estimated 58% of all breaches in 2017 took place within small businesses.1 From some perspective, the … Read more
When obdurate isolationist Woodrow Wilson won 1916 re-election under the slogan, “He kept us out of the war!”, he hadn’t anticipated a simple act of data sharing. On January 17, 1917, Room 40 (British Naval Intelligence)…
The industrial revolution was brought on by purpose-built machinery and automation. A similar revolution has occurred in cybersecurity, leading to the industrialization of red and blue teaming. In large part, this industrialization has been realized … Read more
Why Is Data Valuation Important? In an excellent article in the MIS Sloan Management Review1, the authors cite three reasons why data valuation is important – to guide decisions around 1) direct monetization, 2) internal … Read more
Forty percent of the data breaches for 2017 were reported as involving credit card data, according to the 2018 Trustwave Global Security Report.1 The data breaches analyzed used attacks such as phishing/social engineering, malicious insiders, … Read more
In a world where the business model is racing to connect everything, security is failing to keep pace. This sets up a dynamic tension within the organization between the network/infrastructure teams and the security teams. … Read more
On Sept. 19, 1980, near the small town of Damascus, Arkansas, someone dropped a socket, and it caused a breach. In terms of breaches, it was nuclear! Paradoxical as it may seem, the story of … Read more
