Technology leadership is crucial to how the world lives, works, communicates, and innovates. As Global Leaders Today magazine features tech leaders in its latest issue, I am happy to see they included cybersecurity in the mix. It may not be as sexy as building flying cars, revolutionizing artificial intelligence, launching…

Conveying the meaningful value of cybersecurity investments In the next few years, the biggest challenge in cybersecurity won’t be dealing with a specific threat, but rather conveying a meaningful value proposition throughout the organization, and especially to the C-suite and board. It is key to the sustainability of cybersecurity and perhaps our biggest blind spot! Articulating…

Ethical and Privacy issues abound. If a malicious actor combines an impersonated voice and deepfake video of a target, they can make others believe anything or harass them in unthinkable ways. We already have a deepfake problem, this compounds the issues greatly. Even in Amazon’s use-case of keeping memories alive…

US Treasury sanctions a cryptocurrency mixing site for supporting North Korean hackers who have been stealing hundreds of millions of dollars. Blender.io is a virtual currency mixing site that obfuscates the origins of cryptocurrency coin transactions. Mixing services are privacy tools that malicious entities can also use for laundering illicit…

Ransomware attacks and payments are increasing, with most revenue going to Russian attackers. It is time to revisit outlawing Ransomware payments. Some stats to hammer the situation home: Sophos ransomware report indicates: - Ransom attacks are more frequent (66% of surveyed orgs indicated they were hit with ransomware in 2021…

The war in Ukraine is grinding down to a slugfest where innocent civilians will suffer ever greater impacts. The defenders need a combat advantage over their larger opposition. Supplying anti-tank and shoulder-fired air defense missiles are helpful, but not decisive. Plans to provide more powerful weapons, like fighter/attack aircraft, take…