Why Does My Secret Decoder Ring Keep On Breaking?
I’ve been around the computer business for a long time. Way back, before the Web and even before computers, if you wanted to send a secret message to someone, you…
DetailsIn-House Software Development — Is it Worth the Risk?
Nowadays, data breaches are a subject of conversation at dinner tables and in boardrooms. Cyber insurance premiums to cover these breaches are skyrocketing. Recent surveys and breach reports have highlighted…
DetailsWhat Is an Act of War?
I went to the Educause Security Professionals Conference last week. I have been going to this conference for many years and always take home something useful. This year, James Bamford,…
DetailsA CISO Checklist: 10 Tips to Get Back on Track
The world of the CISO is becoming an almost thankless job. No matter what you do, how well you present to the Board, how complete your program is, it seems…
DetailsBooth Babes Banned at RSA – A CSO’s View
While I was unable to attend RSA this year, after reading Chenxi Wang’s LinkedIn post on ‘Booth Babes’, I have to say… It’s about damn time. To briefly recount a personal experience,…
DetailsPositive or Negative, Security Needs to be Right
One of the aphorisms used in security is, “We have to be right all of the time, and the bad guys only have to be right once.” While this may…
DetailsTruly Positive About True Negatives
Bayes’ Theorem essentially measures the degree of belief, or certainty in something. The Cybersecurity industry has been challenged with the idea of sensitivity and specificity for quite some time. In…
DetailsFalsely Negative About False Positives
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are very inefficient but very effective. Auditors are careful to be sure their findings are accurate so that they are not accused of being…
DetailsIf Only Email Could Fix My Security Problems
Just for fun, I decided to count how many unsolicited emails I got in a 24 hour period offering to either fix my security problems, fix my network problems, fix…
DetailsWant to Know What’s the Secret to YOUR Success?
So you want to know what the secret to success is. First, you need to change the way you look at and ask the question. Instead of wondering what the…
DetailsMusic and Cybersecurity Defect Detection
If you have ever sat through an orchestral concert, you would hear the first chair oboe playing a single note for the rest of the fellow orchestral players to latch onto…
DetailsPrivacy Is Not Dead, But It Is On Life Support
As a security professional, I have an ongoing love/hate relationship with privacy. I have always been the person supporting privacy policies at the University, I even have Privacy as one…
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