“The Internet of Cows”
Glenn Fink, a security researcher at Pacific Northwest Labs, did a presentation called the “Internet of Cows” at a recent IEEE conference where he showed how dairy farming has become an automated,…
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Back to Vendor ListingsBehavioral Authentication: Your New Best Friend
Who knows you better than your smart phone? Your family? Maybe. Your colleagues? Perhaps. Your dog? Almost certainly—but that could change very soon. For many of us, our phones and…
Impacts of Tennessee’s Revision to Data Breach Notification
David M. Brown reported on April 1, 2016 in Data Breach Notification Laws that the State of Tennessee has passed and received the Governor’s signature on revisions to its breach…
The Cybersecurity Convergence
People love to predict the next must-have digital device, from personal drones to augmented-reality contact lenses. But what if the next big device isn’t one single technology? What if it’s…
Security is Not a Thing
This seems to be the time of year that everyone is holding a security conference. I will be attending eight from January through the end of April (and speaking at…
Don’t Sweep These Third-Party Vendor Challenges Under the Rug
Third-party vendors are essential to businesses big and small, national and global. Outsourcing is big. Offshoring is big. You can’t just move or outsource part of your business halfway across…
The Best Security Control You Never Use
Consider for a moment the business lines that drive your company’s revenue. If the president of that business unit had an 85% assurance that a new business venture would be…
CISO Advises Enterprises on How to Combat Latest Printer-based Attacks
There were two security incidents over the past week that drew a lot of attention. The first was the ransomware attack against Medstar, a health system based out of Columbia, MD.…
What Would Harold Do?
I tell users all the time “Forget everything you learned in Kindergarten.” It always gets a laugh, gets their attention and gets my point across. It’s not nice to share…
The Evolution of the CISO
We are seeing that in quite a few organizations the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) role is going through a period of transition. Leading organizations that didn’t have a CISO…