MikeI’ve made my thoughts on the value of cybersecurity awareness month pretty clear. Cybersecurity doesn’t actually improve come 1 November. Cybersecurity awareness month has become […]
Category: Computer Security
If You Want Better Cyber Policy, Put More Nerds in Charge
The decades-long effort to develop solutions to cyber insecurity has been led by the usual suspects drawn from the policy and legal community. That’s not […]
Dear Air Force: Aim Higher
I was in the Army, so if you think that’s disqualifier, you can hit your browser’s back button and move on. This week the Air […]
Cybersecurity 2030
Discussions about cybersecurity overwhelmingly focus on the recent, which are our responses to the design and engineering decisions of the past. We are right to […]
The Importance of Context
Last night during the Super Bowl, cryptocurrency company Coinbase ran an ad that featured a QR code bouncing around the screen. That’s it. No actors, […]
Speed and Scale
There is no shortage of good ideas in cybersecurity, but what divides the best concepts from the best solutions is how quickly and widely they can be employed. Meaningful success demands you work at combat speed and on a global scale.
End Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Management guru Peter Drucker said, “what gets measured gets managed.” Which helps to explain why October – Cybersecurity Awareness Month – is such a bad […]
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
No regime that works for bugs, gas, or isotopes is going to work for code.
Ransomware: The Present We Deserve?
The scourge of ransomware is the inevitable result of decades of schizophrenia about our relationship with information technology and security. Treating this problem like all […]
From Solar Sunrise to Solar Winds: The Questionable Value of Two Decades of Cybersecurity Advice
If everyone agrees on what we should do, why do we seem incapable of doing it? Alternately, if we are doing what we have been told to do, and have not reduced the risks we face, are we asking people to do the wrong things?