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I recently sat down to speak with Christopher Prewitt, the CTO of Inversion6, a cybersecurity risk management firm that’s close enough to where I live that we could meet for kosher pizza. The first question I asked had to with...

In this thought leader video, Howard Ting, CEO of Cyberhaven, discusses the new Comprehensive Cyber Capabilities Working Group (C3WG), which launched this past June to explore what cybersecurity capabilities are needed to protect the assets of an organization against today’s...

Nine out of ten security breaches originate with defects in software code. This reality puts pressure on developers, and the people who manage them, to make code more secure. But, what does it mean for code to be secure? According...

By Ray Overby   There’s a scene in “Jurassic Park” where a Tyrannosaurus rex chases after Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern’s characters as they speed through the wildlife park in a Jeep. The camera pans to the car’s side mirror,...

Hunter S. Thompson opened his classic political book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 with the question, “Is this trip necessary?” Fifty years later, these words were in my head as I landed in San Francisco for RSA...

Digital Influence Mercenaries: Profits and Power Through Information Warfare by James J. F. Forest  (Naval Institute Press) is part of an unintended trilogy of recent books that attempt to explain the current credibility crisis in news and public opinion. Together...

The scourge of ransomware is having an increasingly serious impact on real life. A spate of recent attacks is affecting people and institutions on a scale not previously seen. This week, for example, the nation of Costa Rica announced that...

There’s no doubting that we live in an era unlike any other in human history. Technology has always driven human progress, and our lives almost always change in response to the latest tools we have at our fingertips. However, no...

In my day job as a content writer in enterprise tech and cybersecurity, I often write about the potential of digital transformation (DX). DX is about using the power of digital technology to transform a business, especially its customer and...

Bombarded: How to Fight Back Against the Online Assault on Democracy, by Cyrus Krohn, with Tom Farmer, takes on an ambitious topic. The authors’ goal is to demonstrate how digital media threatens to destroy American democracy. In particular, they focus...

by Mila Bera The digital revolution transformed the dynamics of communication, and several governments responded to these changes by further enhancing their surveillance and detection powers. This paved the way for a surveillance dragnet that’s intercepting massive volumes of online...

by Steve Freidkin One of the most insidious cybersecurity schemes today, ransomware is projected to have cost over $20 billion in 2021. That number is only expected to multiply in the coming years, so it’s crucial for business owners to...

The new book from MIT Press, Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication, by Robert W. Gehl and Sean T. Lawson, takes on an important and ambitious topic. At the risk of...

By Liam Dorney   Reading through the new report Cybersecurity Bills in the 117th Congress from the Cyber Policy Institute, I am struck by the range and scope of legislative activity on this issue. The report reviews the 80 cybersecurity-related...

Our sister organization, The Cyber Policy Institute, just published its first, but hopefully not last report on federal legislation that deals with cybersecurity. The report, Cybersecurity Bills in the 117th Congress, summarizes the 80 bills submitted or passed by the...

Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud by Mike Bursell, CEO and co-founder of Profian, takes on a subject of monumental importance in cybersecurity that most of us tend to overlook it on a daily basis. Trust, functioning as a...