In 2017, six of the top ten HIPAA breaches reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stemmed from ransomware.[1] In a typical ransomware attack, important data…
DetailsWhen my company launched in October 2015, few security folks even knew what software containers were. We might as well have been securing shipping containers! Development and DevOps teams, on…
DetailsDror Davidoff has a diverse background in terms of where he has lived, where he went to school, and where he has worked. He considers all of it a tremendous…
DetailsThe most common identity and access management (IAM) authentication control in use today is a user ID and password, and there is growing awareness that passwords are incrementally becoming obsolete…
DetailsRandy Marchany, Chief Information Security Officer, Virginia Tech Randy Marchany is one of those rare individuals who has spent his entire career with the same employer. His time with Virginia…
DetailsPaul Mocarski, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Sammons Financial Group Member Companies Some people have successful careers in the military. Others make their decades-long career in the civilian…
DetailsIn my previous article, I tried to cover why metrics are an important part of your security program and some of my beliefs about how metrics should be created and…
DetailsAt first glance, the Watch Dogs video games seem like far-fetched fantasy, depicting a world of constant surveillance, ubiquitous hackability, and authorities eavesdropping on citizens to prevent crimes before they…
DetailsMichael Molinaro, Chief Information Security Officer, BioReference Laboratories, Inc. As Mike Molinaro prepares to collect his second graduate degree – an MBA from Florida Institute of Technology – he jokes,…
DetailsSome years ago, I attended a training program sponsored by the United States Secret Service which was training cyber first responders such as state and local police departments, sheriff’s offices,…
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