Adam Firestone is the Editor-in-Chief of United States Cybersecurity Magazine as well as a member of the Security Industry Association’s Cyber Advisory Board. Mr. Firestone has more than 22 years of experience in the security, defense, intelligence, and government contracting industries. He is an accomplished solutions architect, senior engineering executive with experience in advanced cryptology and identity management technologies, has led a cybersecurity organization, and the defense and federal subsidiary of a global Cloud-native middleware company. Mr. Firestone has a patented invention for ensuring multi-level data security. Additionally, Mr. Firestone is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. He graduated from Yale University, is a former United States Army officer, and also possesses a legal background, having practiced law in New York.
Hello, It’s easy to think of cybersecurity as a coldly logical space where the deterministic management of machines and software creates a binary reality. Do the right thing (for values of “right” that equate to compliance with any of a myriad of frameworks), and security ensues. Do the wrong thing, which is often perceived as … Read more
Hello, Cybersecurity is an interesting word. It’s often referred to as an “industry,” yet the word evokes imagery not of a factory or a production line but of hyperintellectual technologists tackling mindbogglingly complex technical challenges, electronic ninjas dueling with electric katanas in the ether, and ever-vigilant sentinels protecting the nation from those who would do … Read more
Hello, Imagine a world where a single factory produced 55% of the planet’s food supply and almost all of the nutritious foods that are required for children to develop into, and remain, vigorous, healthy, and productive adults with strong immune systems and sharp minds. Putting this into perspective, the countries that represent the Organization of … Read more
Hello, In 1813, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, reporting on American success in the Battle of Lake Erie, sent the famous line to General William Henry Harrison: “We have met the enemy and they are ours.” And, as much as I like that American history tidbit, the parody of Perry’s report published by Walt Henry, the … Read more
Hello, We’re in the midst of a national security crisis of epic proportions. It’s not due to the economy, although it will impact the economy. It has little to do with the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, although it bears on America’s ability to foresee, deter, and manage such conflicts in the future. And it’s not … Read more
Hello, As long as I’m being honest, I might as well get this one off my chest: Not only am I an unrepentant 80s metal-head, and one who’s convinced that music has only gone downhill since about 1988 (sorry, Rage Against the Machine fans), but of late, I’ve become convinced that much of what was … Read more
Hello, Let’s be honest. All of us in the cybersecurity community think of ourselves, more or less (and more often more than less) as technocrats. We’re masters of that sterile domain in the ether where everything boils down to sterile ones and zeros (or qubits). We speak in tongues, our conversations a tent-revival glossolalia made … Read more
Hello, Tell me that at least one of you out there in cyber land is a classic movie buff? And no, classic doesn’t mean something that was produced by Netflix for Netflix in 2018. Since I can hear the sound of that pin dropping , I’m forced to conclude that, once again… Lonely is the … Read more
Hello, 1977 was a great year, for so many reasons. Not least among them was the release of the Ramones’ Rocket to Russia album, on side one (remember when albums had sides?) of which, Joey sang: I don’t care (He don’t care) I don’t care (He don’t care) I don’t care about these words I … Read more
Hello, The modern perspective on cybersecurity has ancient roots. For millennia, humans have built walls, posted sentries, vetted their interlocutors, and established watchmen to ensure that behaviors and interactions meet established standards for propriety and orthodoxy (h/t to Juvenal; quis custodiet ipsos custodes indeed) in an effort to ensure that only those duly authorized have … Read more
