Adam Firestone is Editor-in-Chief of United States Cybersecurity Magazine and brings nearly 30 years of secure systems design experience to the publication.
Hello, Albert Einstein is widely reputed to have said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. While Einstein never actually uttered these words, they are a useful … Read more
Information security cultural iconography focuses on heroic and demonic archetypes, resulting in a pageant of evocative, emotional imagery that influences reportage, regulation, acquisition, enterprise governance, and the choices made by individuals with respect to their … Read more
Hello, As Cassius said to Brutus in Act I, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves.” And so it is with the American cybersecurity … Read more
Security is inherently binary, like being alive or being married. Just as you can’t be “almost married” or “almost alive” (Schrodinger’s cat notwithstanding), you can’t be “mostly secure.”. There’s no way to create a solution … Read more
Hello, At the beginning of 2019, the American cybersecurity community finds itself at a crossroads. Perhaps it might be more appropriate to say that cybersecurity policymakers, technologists, and practitioners find themselves fighting a battle on … Read more
The liberal, humanist foundations of western democracy in general (and American democracy in particular) are predicated on the idea that each person is valuable in and of himself or herself. From this thesis flows…
Hello, 2018 marks the 15th anniversary of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), which is observed every October. NCSAM, a collaborative effort between government and industry, is intended to help ensure that every American has … Read more
In 1889, the New York publisher John Wiley & Sons published an obscure scientific piece by Daniel S. Troy titled The Cosmic Law of Thermal Repulsion: An Essay Suggested by the Projection of a Comet’s … Read more
Hello, It is time to take off the polarized cyberglasses, America, because what we choose not to see can kill us. The language of cybersecurity is laced with modal verbs and their auxiliaries such as … 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
