Security Awareness of the Developer Kind
Knock, knock on the door… “Do you have a minute to talk about a report request?” asked the developer. Security awareness typically focuses on employees – the people working in…
DetailsVENOM Vulnerability Could Take Bite Out of Your Week
The greatest fear of anyone running a virtual machine especially in a shared hosting environment is that an attack against one VM could jump the wall and impact the other…
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,…
DetailsNeedles in Haystacks — Federal Appeals Court rules NSA “Dragnet” Program Illegal
On May 7, 2015 the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York issued a major ruling on the legality of the NSA’s controversial program to gather information about…
DetailsIt Ain’t Your Data
Your bank records. Your medical records. Your bills. Your phone records. Your college grades. What do all these things have in common? None of them are YOURS. The United States…
DetailsSecurity Current’s Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) Name SentinelOne Winner of Its Inaugural Security High Stakes Competition
Security Current today named SentinelOne the winner of its inaugural Security High Stakes competition. The event was held at the RSA Conference in San Francisco and brought technology providers face-to-face with…
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,…
DetailsThe IoT and The End of the Ownership Society
When I was a kid, I owned a rather substantial record collection. It included The Who, Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, and other groups popular in the late ’60’s early 70’s. …
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