Jeff Costlow

Jeff Costlow

Extrahop

Deputy CISO

Jeff is a security technologist and leader with over 20 years of deep experience securing information and technology assets as well as years of successful engineering leadership, delivering secure product deployments to thousands of customers. Jeff leads the ExtraHop team towards groundbreaking security and privacy services.

Tim Baxter, then president and chief operating officer of Samsung Electronics America, speaks during a press event for CES 2017 in Las Vegas. While IoT devices make us more efficient, today’s columnist, Jeff Costlow of ExtraHop, says security pros need to understand the risks of IoT vulnerabilities.(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

IoT

Understand the risk of IoT vulnerabilities in the remote work era

Jeff CostlowFebruary 4, 2022

Connected devices make us all more efficient, but security teams need to understand the risks.

Today’s columnist, Casey Ellis of Bugcrowd, says companies need to do a full inventory of their assets, patch the Log4j bug, and follow CISA’s guidelines. (Credit: Department of Defense)

Breach

Time to stop the money-making business of kicking hospitals when they’re down

Jeff CostlowApril 28, 2021

Late last year, CISA, HHS and the FBI issued a joint warning on impending cyberattacks on hospitals during the pandemic. Today’s columnist, Jeff Costlow of ExtraHop, offers strategies to help hospitals defeat those attacks.

Content

How to effectively manage Shadow IT in the WFH era

Jeff CostlowDecember 2, 2020

Shadow IT refers to any hardware or software used without the explicit authorization of the IT department. Employees don’t typically have malicious intentions. They turn to Shadow IT for a legitimate reason: to get their jobs accomplished.