Information is one of the most valuable currencies there is. Whether it is sensitive corporate information or sets of individuals’ personal information, there are people out there who are interested in seeing it — legally or otherwise. While many consumers accept that companies collect and sell their data regularly, data breaches are a very real … Read more
One of the most remarkable developments in the consumer technology industry in the past two decades is the emergence of social media networks. Social media has revolutionized the sort of social connections and interactions we have offline. Additionally, it has enhanced how we communicate and stay informed. Nowadays, billions of people around the world use … Read more
The Cost of Carelessness Is it possible to quantify carelessness? Recent news about Equifax has shown the veracity of carelessness seen in the cybersecurity department of major corporations and countries. This year alone, we have seen many companies that we trust with our personal information fail us. Because of this, the catastrophic failures of cybersecurity … Read more
More businesses are moving their data to the cloud, due to its many attractive benefits: lower capital and operational overhead, faster and more efficient scalability, and increased flexibility, to name a few. According to a RightScale study,1 87 percent of businesses surveyed have migrated some or all of their communications and IT infrastructure to the … Read more
The Internet of Things (IoT) has become one of the hottest topics among security and privacy experts in the last two years. In October 2013, when CyberTECH produced “Securing the Internet of Things,” the first “think tank” event on the topic, most people where just coming to terms with what the IoT was and what … Read more
In 1980 Alvin Toffler famously declared that there are three waves of civilization – Agricultural (lasted centuries), Industrial (lasted decades), and the Information Age (now).1 Each new wave pushes the preceding wave aside. Information security operates in the Physical, “Wired” IT (information technology), and Radio Frequency (RF) operational domains. So, in a similar vein to … Read more
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 type of vulnerabilities that have allowed computer crime to officially surpass the drug trade in the past decade. To illustrate … Read more
Protecting enterprises from hacks and other malicious activity is a challenge for organizations, both in the public and private sectors. The drumbeat of breaches continues and there are no signs of it slowing. The stakes have never been higher. The types and frequency of attacks are increasing and securing your organization has never been more … Read more
There are some topics that seem to be shrouded with uncertainty and confusion and the “Cloud” is one of those topics. I was talking with a fellow CISO of a Federal Agency a few weeks back and the topic of “cloud migration” came up. Not unexpectedly, my CISO friend expressed that the biggest obstacles to … Read more
The Problem One of your most productive engineers has spent the last month working on a deliverable for your biggest client. The final document is over 200 pages and includes complex engineering drawings, schematics of systems and a variety of highly detailed images. He needs to update some figures so that it will be ready … Read more
