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Author: Hilary MacMillan

Hilary MacMillanHilary serves as EVP for Engineering at CyLogic. She’s spent more than 20 years in systems engineering; enterprise and solutions architecting; cybersecurity; modeling and simulation; enterprise modernization; product deployment; engineering process development; market analysis and growth strategy development; and business planning and development.  She holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a master’s degree in Systems Engineering from George Mason University.

 

QKD versus RQC
From the Winter 2024 Issue

Approaching 10 Years! Picks from the Past, Engineering and Vulnerability Management

QKD versus PQC: A Quantum Showdown? Part 2

Author(s):

Hilary MacMillan, EVP for Engineering, CyLogic

This is part two of a two-part article on secure key distribution in a post-quantum world.  Part one focused on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) as a method to securely distribute encryption keys.  This article will … Read more

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From the Winter 2024 Issue

Approaching 10 Years! Picks from the Past, Engineering and Vulnerability Management

QKD versus PQC: A Quantum Showdown? Part 1

Author(s):

Hilary MacMillan, EVP for Engineering, CyLogic

The need for communications confidentiality has existed since humans developed language. Accounts of the Greco-Persian wars in fifth century B.C. described steganography, (hiding the existence of a message). Cryptography, on the other hand, hides a … Read more

How well are your files protected?
From the Fall 2023 Issue

Securing Your Data

How Well Are Your Files protected?

Author(s):

Hilary MacMillan, EVP for Engineering, CyLogic

Files are among a company’s most valuable assets and their presence has a very real impact on a company’s viability, to its bottom line, its reputation or legal standing, and its ability to operate and … Read more

Threat Modeling
From the Winter 2020 Issue

Cybersecurity Policy

Threat Modeling: Methodologies, Myths, and Missing Perspectives

Author(s):

Hilary MacMillan, EVP for Engineering, CyLogic

On April 10, 2014, citizens of Ghaziabad, a city near Delhi, India, cast their ballots for parliamentary elections using electronic voting machines. The machines – and the votes they held – had to be stored … Read more

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From the Summer 2018 Issue

Commentary

It’s Time for Digital Health and Hygiene

Author(s):

Hilary MacMillan, EVP for Engineering, CyLogic

Physical health and hygiene education in primary and secondary schools is taken as a given now, but it wasn’t always so. It was not until 1840 that Rhode Island legislation made health education mandatory.1 The … Read more

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From the Spring 2018 Issue

Engineering and Vulnerability Management

Shifting Left: Secure Systems Engineering

Author(s):

Hilary MacMillan, EVP for Engineering, CyLogic

The Shift Left principle1 is well known in software and systems development, particularly in relation to testing. It’s the idea of performing test activities earlier in the system development life cycle – developing test cases … Read more

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From the Winter 2018 Issue

Engineering and Vulnerability Management

Trustworthy IoT: Just Another Block in the Chain

Author(s):

Hilary MacMillan, EVP for Engineering, CyLogic

Ah, the Internet.  It’s impossible to imagine life without it.  The ability to connect and interact has fundamentally changed and continues to change society.  We can exchange information and assets around the world nearly instantaneously.  … Read more

From the Fall 2017 Issue

Commentary

WHAT THE HASH? Data Integrity and Authenticity in American Jurisprudence

Author(s):

Hilary MacMillan, EVP for Engineering, CyLogic

Legal battles over compulsory data decryption are making headlines. The publicity will likely continue as encryption technology proliferates in both consumer and enterprise markets. The arguments on both sides of this issue merit careful consideration … Read more

From the Spring 2017 Issue

Industry & Business Best Practices

Navigating a Hostile Cyberspace: A Primer for Small Business

Author(s):

Hilary MacMillan, EVP for Engineering, CyLogic

Imagine the following: You are the CEO of a small, innovative toy company. It’s the day before Thanksgiving and you were supposed to be home two hours ago. An email pops into your inbox; it’s … Read more

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