Never in the history of business has technology evolved as rapidly as it is now. The speed of conducting business in the digital era has spurred enterprises to adopt hybrid cloud-based systems, micro-segmentation and virtual platforms as crucial elements of enterprise-level digital transformations. But transformations like these require significant resources – not just capital and…
The simple truth is that the security measures organizations put in place are not enough to protect them from threats. Third parties can present the greatest area of risk exposure — both for data security and for regulatory compliance. It is much easier for hackers to penetrate smaller third-party vendors to get to larger business…
A recently discovered critical vulnerability presents yet another case study for the shortcomings of the isolation/virtual machine model for cybersecurity. The vulnerability, CVE-2019-14378, has a severity of 8.8, and was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on July 29th, 2019. The vulnerability affects QEMU, the popular open source machine emulator and virtualizer. Short for…
Experienced cybersecurity leaders are beginning to call for a move from reactive detection to proactive prevention. It’s clear that the need to get ahead of the cybersecurity curve is real. Over the past decade, experts talked about the number of days that malware is in your system, and now the discussion is fast becoming how…
Over 40 percent of personnel on the Akamai InfoSec team are women. That’s in an industry where, depending on who you ask and how you measure, somewhere between 10percent and 15percent of entry-level positions are filled by women. And while I’d like to say that my team has always been this balanced in representation, it…
In 1885, a psychologist named Hermann Ebbinghaus published his theory on education retention called the Forgetting Curve. His research theorizes that most people forget up to 80 percent of what they’ve learned within 48 hour, unless the information is reviewed time and again. With Deloitte reporting that 67 percent of employees believe their careers require…
The actions in Iraq and Iran over these past few days have caused a renewed attention on the protection of America’s critical infrastructure. We have an adversary that lacks the ability to send missiles to our homeland now making violent proclamations of an intent to harm America and Americans. And while we have an understanding…
While there is some debate over whether the number of ransomware attacks is rising, there is no arguing that the losses suffered by both public and private sector organizations have increased. Hardening your organization’s security posture requires an understanding not only of how ransomware works technically, but also how the attacks psychologically compel victims to…
When it comes to the workplace, we are office-bound no more. While it still may seem counterintuitive, most work today actually gets done (at least some of the time) from remote locations, not company offices. Whether from home, a co-working space, or an airport, subway, hotel, or Starbucks, employees and contractors alike can be found…
When humans discovered and learned to ‘obey’ the laws of physics and chemistry, we began to thrive in our world. It enabled us to make fire, build machines much stronger than ourselves, to cure diseases, to fly. What will it take for us to thrive in the world of cyberspace? What are its laws –…
