Ransomware is not new, and neither is using alternative payment systems to fund criminal activity. Cryptocurrency has certainly made ransomware much more prolific, and thanks to persistent access to computing technology and ubiquitous connectivity, its impact has been much more significant than in the past. Recently a task force was
There are myriad factors at play that reduce, diminish, and outright subvert cybersecurity efforts, but none is more insidious or successful than how the very industries that defenders are trying to protect treat both their customers and their workforce. Wait, you said “those we’re defending” and not “adversaries” or
A more secure cyberspace will only come about if technologists impact the tech, business, and policy stacks.
Let’s get something straight right from the get-go: from the perspective of the manufacturer there is no incentive to build secure things.
But we have norms or we don’t. They’re only norms if they apply to everyone, equally, all the time.
An imagined future... I am a Cybersecurity Capabilities Manager. What’s that? Well, the “cybersecurity” part should be self-evident. “Capabilities” is code for the AI that does all the actual work. “Manager” is code for “guy who creates prompts, tunes bots, and talks to customers if they ask to talk
The problem with trying to make someone a scapegoat is that they can very easily become a ram if you’re not careful.
Daisy, daisy, give me your answer do...
If the necessary institutions, relationships, and capabilities are not in place, and follow-on work does not clearly define success in quantifiable terms, this has been another exercise in “doing what we know how to do” versus something that might make a difference.
Another year, another set of folks who think they’ve cracked the nut on how to address the government’s cybersecurity staffing woes. It’s not that leveraging the whole of society to address these issues isn’t a good idea, but the road to hell is paved with realities
It was the cyberwar we were promised; it was the cyberwar nobody expected…
News about ransomware gang takedowns and ransom recoveries make for great headlines, and the way some people talk you’d think we had this ransomware thing licked. But while these are certainly “wins,” they’re not really having a noticeable impact, and if we keep going at these issues in