In case you’ve somehow missed the headlines, the education systems in this country are under attack. Stow your politics, I’m talking cyber. The latest is the 2nd largest school district in the United States — LA Unified School District was briefly taken offline and down over the Labor Day holiday…

Everyone’s talking about automation as cyber security’s salvation. I wish I could agree with the same level of enthusiasm as some of my colleagues and friends. The fact is, no matter how much lipstick you throw on that pig, it still tastes like bacon. It appears to me that what…

Have you ever had someone in the cyber security world point to an article about a class-action settlement from a data breach, or a cost-of-breach study and say something like this? “See, that breach cost them $200M, if they had spent half of that on a security budget this wouldn’t…

Prologue You’re probably not reading this when I release it. …

I’m going to first point you to this tweet, because it’s the basis for this short post: https://twitter.com/Wh1t3Rabbit/status/1466161788035026950 So I’ve been thinking since I wrote this re-tweet. At first it was my typical snark and meant to be a bit funny. …

If you’ve consulted or advised security leaders in any capacity this post will likely speak to you. It’s a topic I’ve covered in personal conversation dozens of times, and it’s once again thrust into the fore of my mind here at re:Invent in Las Vegas. Compliance requirements are piling up…

Ransomware has been top of mind a lot lately. For many cybersecurity professionals working in corporate enterprise, the fear of dealing with ransomware is ever-present. The past 2 to 3 months have been especially brutal as the conversation has swung to making it illegal to pay a ransom. There are…

I was reading Bruce’s article again “On Not Fixing Old Vulnerabilities” where he ponders the unbelievable result of a report on very, very old vulnerabilities still in real-world existence today, and came upon a disturbing thought. As I scrolled through the comments section (yes, I read comments as often as…

We’re a third of the way through 2021. I’ll pause and let that hit you and sink in before I continue… Now that you’ve had a minute to think about the statement I made above, I’d like to draw your attention to a LinkedIn post I made a while back…