It seems like every conversation I have these days is centered on the growth of cybersecurity and the opportunities that growth presents in Colorado Springs. The city is quickly becoming a hub of cyber activities … Read more
Revisiting the Cyber Kill Chain The Cyber Kill Chain is considered a benchmark for cyberintrusion detection. It is functionally analogous to the Terrorism Kill Chain in all but one respect.1 Intrusions are now a much … Read more
All cyber operations begin with humans. We are rule-bound, predictable creatures who consistently exhibit sense-based indicative patterns in everything we do. It is humans who build the “culture of computers, information technology, and virtual reality” … Read more
Windows PCs have now been around for over 30 years, and Microsoft’s operating system still holds a nearly 90% share of the desktop and laptop ecosystem worldwide.1 While PC unit sales are on the decline, … Read more
Even before Dan Senor and Saul Singer’s country profile in their bestseller Start-Up Nation, Israel wrote the book on startups, literally. While ranked a mere 154th in country size, Israel is reinventing itself yet again. … Read more
Nearly all businesses protect vital internal assets by means of a firewall: a software- or hardware-based solution that sits between the corporate LAN and the external internet. These firewalls are designed to limit, regulate, and … Read more
Healthcare suffers more breaches than any other field, with 90 percent of organizations having suffered at least one data breach in the past two years,1 and nearly half, or 45 percent, having more than five … Read more
We are on the cusp of a revolution in information security engineering. Even a cursory glance at the security technoscape shows a shift away from perimeter-based defenses and their electronic ramparts, bastions, and moats, toward … Read more
Jim Mazotas would never forget the call. His company was doing a vulnerability audit for a medium-sized university which suspected its admins of misconduct. The work had started on a Friday, and would continue for … Read more
On That Day, Everything Changed When Target Corporation was breached in 2013, leading to the loss of over 110 million customer records, it was following industry best practices to ensure that corporate assets were properly … Read more
