James is the COO of the respected Identity Theft Resource Center and expert on how privacy and cybersecurity regulations impact business operations. James served as EVP and Company Secretary for Irish cybersecurity company, Waratek. He also served as SVP and Chief Public & Consumer Affairs Officer at data pioneer ChoicePoint; a global executive at International Paper Company; and led two working groups for the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) on identity management and privacy.
If you needed a microcosm of the challenges currently facing the cybersecurity world, three events in the summer of 2021 summed it up well: Oracle and Microsoft (and others) issued patch updates to fix the … Read more
Southwest Airlines (SWA), Flight 1380, was climbing through 32,000 feet on the morning of April 17, 2018. At approximately 11:03 am, fan blade No. 13 of the left engine shattered along a previously undetected stress … Read more
Back in January of 2021, you may have seen this eye-catching headline: “Hackers are targeting security researchers”. As it turns out, threat actors in North Korea were luring pen testers and other vulnerability professionals into … Read more
Proving there is a “you” has never been easier; proving you are the only you, not so much. We learned in math class in high school that you cannot prove a negative. Or to be … Read more
For at least the past 15 years, a primary goal of cybersecurity teams was to block threat actors from gaining access to the growing amount of personal information collected about consumers. Meanwhile, threat actors focused … Read more
On a day in June, the year 2017 became another year r the record books – six months early. According the non-profit Identity Theft Resource Center C), publically reported data breaches exceed ’s record pace … Read more
