2016 was an alarming year for tallying increases in data breaches and analyzing the sophistication of cybersecurity attacks and threats. It is clear that companies and individuals are playing games of catch up from a growing array of cyber adversaries. The following links are compiled from recent statistics pulled from a variety of articles and […]

Long said in movies and TV, it’s the bullet that you don’t see that kills you. This was true for Target in 2011 where they missed the alerts their tools generated. This has remained so for many others ever since. Pick an organization with 1000’s of employees. Look at the IT/Sec-Ops people as they really […]

Introducing the Cyber Concepts Series The articles in this series are intended to be conceptual expositions on technical topics. Engineers and uber security analysts likely prefer far more nuanced details. The non-technical person will find these articles a bit of a stretch, straddling the fence between ‘too simple’ and ‘too much’. The ultimate purpose of […]

Ransomware is the Clear and Present Danger Now Probabilities, preparedness, and potential impact mean that Ransomware reigns supreme amongst healthcare provider threats. If you can’t treat patients because you don’t have access to medical equipment, records, billing processes, scheduling, or vital 3rd party services, the impact is immediate, pervasive, urgent, and even life threatening, far […]

While most people worry that the Equifax data breach will cause a spike in identity theft and other cyber fraud, maybe we should be more concerned if this does NOT happen. Articles about Equifax and the breach headlined periodicals not just in the trade rags but also in the mainstream. Such coverage surprises no one […]

The Equifax breaches and subsequent firing of the CEO, CIO, and CISO are a giant canary in the enterprise world.  Their failures are far from unique. Most organizations struggle with the same issues too. But after a breach has occurred, challenges get reported as failures in the periodicals. Caricatures of what did or didn’t happen […]