The Anthem Hack – Part Deux – What Anthem Did Right (and Wrong)
Posted on: 06 Feb 2015
In the wake of every hack (and every second and one yard in the Super Bowl) there is a stream of criticism from Monday morning quarterbacks about what should have been done. …
Anthem Blue Cross – The Five Stages of Hack Response
Posted on: 05 Feb 2015
This week it was Anthem Blue Cross’s time. The health insurance giant disclosed a massive hack, which compromised records for as many as 80 million people. This included identity information,…
The CISO’s Guide to Getting Stuff Done
Posted on: 02 Feb 2015
Let’s face it. You know what you have to do. You have a 30-day plan. A 90-day plan. A one-year plan. A five-year plan. You have spreadsheets, budgets, and PowerPoints.…
Crowdsourcing Invasions of Privacy
Posted on: 29 Jan 2015
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the United States government is creating a massive database of records culled from license plate scanners, and making this database available to law enforcement…
What Keeps CISO’s Up At Night
Posted on: 28 Jan 2015
Every CISO is one data breach from being fired. Or one disruptive DDoS attack. Or one theft of information. Or one bad audit result. Or one compliance investigation. Or one…
In the Year 2525 – HoloLens, Google Glass and the Future of Privacy
Posted on: 23 Jan 2015
In privacy and security circles, we typically think about threats and trends in the order of months or even years. We tend to forget that we are still very much…
NY State of Mind — Attorney General Proposes New Cybersecurity Rules
Posted on: 16 Jan 2015
Seems like everyone is getting into the cybersecurity act. Happy Cybersecurity week. New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced that he is proposing legislation that will require “unprecedented safeguards”…
Inside the Sausage Factory – The President’s Cybersecurity Legal Proposals
Posted on: 15 Jan 2015
American Poet John Godfrey Saxe is quoted as saying, “Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.” Well, it’s sausage-making time here…
It’s Cybersecurity Week — Obama Announces Cybersecurity Initiatives
Posted on: 13 Jan 2015
In the wake of the most recent attack on [insert name of entity] the White House has announced a new initiative to finally tackle the problem of cybersecurity. It’s a…
Stingray Bites
Posted on: 06 Jan 2015
The FBI wants the ability to know the position of every man, woman and child in America without a warrant, without a court order, and without any reason or justification.…