Surviving Cyberwar
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Blog postEvery social media site experiences security growing pains. Remember when Twitter was passing a million users and a hacker in California brute forced celebrity account passwords with a simple script? In classic reactionary mode Twitter finally added the standard throttling to number of login attempts and eventually SMS authentication for account changes. All good- but many social media sites are still lagging far behind the threat actors. Case in point: a woman in Arizona is repor
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Blog postData privacy – it’s a topic that’s near and dear to my heart. And it’s one that’s been highlighted at Mobile World Congress this year. With new regulations like the EU GDPR coming into force as of May 25, 2018, I felt particularly compelled to attend the session on the second day of the conference titled “Consumer Data: Privacy and Opportunity.”
Moderated by Fatemah Khatibloo, principal analyst at Forrester Research, the session delved into the push-and-pull battle between businesses a -
Blog postData Privacy Day (also known as Data Protection Day in Europe) is an international holiday that occurs on January 28th every year to raise awareness about data privacy and promote data protection best practices. With new data breaches emerging daily, organizations should work together with employees and provide actionable tips and recommendations for improved data protection.
Tip 1: Just because you can’t see files on your desktop/laptop computer doesn’t mean they’re gone.
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Blog postLast week, we learned that (gasp) U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton – or her staffers – used a freeware data removal tool to purge emails from her now infamous private email server. The debate around Ms. Clinton’s email practices is getting muddled, if you ask me. If she is to be condemned for hosting her State Department communications outside the State Department’s IT infrastructure because that would expose it to hacking from enemy states like Russia (the most common bugaboo)
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Blog postOver the last week, every media outlet has been talking about Ashley Madison, again. No, the dating site hasn’t had another data breach. Instead, they’ve made a big marketing push behind the rebrand of their parent company from Avid Life Media to Ruby, changed up their leadership team, launched their first-ever TV ad with a new tagline.
But I haven’t seen anything mentioned about what the company has changed related to the actual cause behind the data breach itself – the ‘Full Delete’ -
Blog postIn 2015 IT-Harvest took another stab at compiling a list of all the IT security vendors in the world. Some of the preliminary data I presented at RSA on their TV channel. The most difficult task in putting together such a list is deciding how to classify each vendor into a category. But once that arduous task is completed I can start digging into each category. I started to look at Threat Intelligence vendors last August, although I had been engaging with several of them for years.
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Blog postWhy is it that an acquisition cannot occur in the IT Security space without that tired old word, consolidation, being rolled out to describe it? This must be a pet peeve of mine since a quick Google search reveals that I have written about consolidation nine times. Nothing I write will change the perception of Wall Street or journalists evidently. So, why don’t I do some research to back up my oh so strongly held belief? If the industry is consolidating then the number of vendors should go do
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Blog postIt has been a long road but it appears that Symantec has finally re-focused on its core business of securing its customers. Symantec announced today that it is introducing an automated malware analysis and response solution, Symantec Advanced Threat Protection (ATP).
It has been 12 years since I first heard complaints from enterprises that their anti-virus solution was not detecting targeted malware, that is, malware that was customized just so it would not be detected by signature sy -
Blog post“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” -Koheleth
Now that the latest, greatest, most expensive, fighter jet is coming online the critics are piling on. It’s too slow! It can’t fire its guns! It can’t dog fight! The software does not work! Unlike most of these critics I am rather hopeful that the F-35 Joint Strike fighter will eventually be alright. It is truly a triumph of engineerin -
Blog postSometimes it helps motivate action to perform a thought experiment. After the horrifying breach of OPM many agency heads are probably thinking “how can I ensure I never have to face a grilling by Congress for a failure to protect critical data?” That is the thought that is prevalent today in DC. I propose a slightly different way to think about it.
If you are an agency head, CEO, or responsible for a large project that involves lots of sensitive data, take a moment to do the -
Blog postWhen two experts on modern warfare get together to write fiction I get in line to read it. Peter Singer’s Wired For War, which tracks the rise of drones and robots for war fighting, was a primary resource for me as I attended classes at King’s College. In all of my research Singer was the only one to hint that maybe all of this automation and networking was introducing worrisome vulnerabilities. Singer’s co-author, August Cole, was a defense industry reporter for the Wall Street Journal. He i
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Blog postIn August of 2010 Intel announced one of the most ill-advised acquisitions in IT security industry history. Intel went on to pay $7.68 billion for McAfee. At the time I was one of many who was critical of the acquisition(Intel Should Not Consummate McAfee Deal.) While Wall Street was enamored of the deal because, wow! Cyber!, there was never a fit. A company that dominates the silicon chip industry has no strategic reason to get into anti-virus, IPS, and firewalls.
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Blog postThe following story is excerpted from There Will Be Cyberwar: How the Move to Network-Centric War Fighting Set the Stage for Cyberwar:
The history of China and Taiwan is short, consistent, and unresolvd. When Mao Zedong finally won the Communist revolution against the Chinese Nationalists in 1949, Chiang Kai-Shek fled with his forces to the adjacent island of Formosa and established a new country, Taiwan. Since then China’s stated goal has been to reunify the two countries. Whether it
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