Hilary is a Co-Founder of SIX3RO and serves as the Chief Technology Officer. 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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
