Forbes Magazine had an interesting article last month about security vulnerabilities in home security products from SimpliSafe, Samsung, Comcast and others. The author highlighted the usual vulnerabilities including default passwords and unencrypted signaling, but, there …
Every once in a while I read an interesting cybersecurity study that I feel deserves its own blog post. It usually describes a successful cyber-attack that exist at the intersection of three things: organizational ambivalence, …
The Mirai Botnet Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack of September and October 2016 gave a brief glimpse of the effect Internet of Things (IoT) devices can have on the greater Internet. This event was …
Last week, while driving, an advertisement came on the radio for a home security system. I already have a home security system but the ad still caught my attention. As I listened I started to …
LinkedIn Phishing – Are your employees safe? It all started as a harmless exchange between like-minded adults. It was something I had experienced many times before either at work or in the privacy of my …
PwC released its Global State of Information Security® Survey 2017 which is based on responses of 10,000 C-level executives from over 133 countries. In the results PwC found that “59% of survey respondents say they …
Do cybersecurity vendors consider user experience? We need to start designing solutions based on both network protection AND network performance.
The DoD CIO Terry Halvorsen made a bold call for the replacement of the CAC within the next two years. If there is no more CAC how can the DoD maintain its PKI?
Every day there are new headlines about stolen passwords. Multi-Factor Authentication is the only true prevention but how do we MFA-enable applications and devices that are not MFA-capable today.
