Mentorship is crucial in cybersecurity. I am honored to be listed on TopMate’s Top 50 Cybersecurity Mentors in the US list! Leveraging the knowledge, experience, and connections of those who have a deep understanding and are respected among their pee

The Cybersecurity Vault - episode 41, with guest Dan Lohrmann.

2025 will be an interesting year for the cybersecurity industry! Dan Lohrmann provides his insights to the challenges and opportunities the cybersecurity industry will face in 2025!

In this

The Cybersecurity Vault — episode 40, with guest Sumona Banerji

Attackers are masterful at using Social Engineering techniques to victimize others. They take advantage of vulnerabilities that are deeply rooted in our mental and emotional foundations.

I am deeply honored and thrilled to be recognized this year by Clutch as part of an elite community of technology leaders and influencers.

This is an incredible list of influencers who have attracted the attention of business professionals with their

The brutal reality is that cybersecurity predictions are only as valuable as their accuracy. As 2024 comes to a close, I revisit my forecasts to assess their utility in guiding meaningful decisions.

Anyone can make predictions (and far too many do), b

The Cybersecurity Vault - episode 38, with guest Evgeniy Kharam.

Soft Skills are essential cybersecurity as they enable communication, teamwork, leadership, and relationship building. Yet, the cybersecurity industry has traditionally focused on the te

I had a great time chatting with the amazing Shira Rubinoff and Rinki Sethi on the Clarity podcast, discussing what people need to know about Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence!

I didn’t see much visibility on this DocuSign hack. This is a situation where the product features were not vetted to understand if they could be misused by malicious fraudsters. There is not a technical vulnerability, it comes down to a design weakn

I had a tremendous time at the InCyber Montreal forum. The speakers, panels, fellow practitioners, and events were outstanding!

I bumped into Dan Lohrmann and Nancy Rainosek before their panel with Sue McCauley on CISO challenges. We had some very int

This is an interesting tactic by cyber attackers — using virtual machine hard drive files to bypass email malware filters!

Never underestimate the creativity and resourcefulness of intelligent adversaries in finding ways to leverage technology for the

Explaining cybersecurity is challenging, but with the right visual interface, it is easier to understand the behavioral, technical, and process aspects of cyberattacks.

For the full video Explaining Ransomware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njXi-NoL

Ransomware is one of the most devastating challenges in cybersecurity today. The attacks are vicious, expensive, impactful, and becoming commonplace.

Over the years I have predicted its rise, discussed why it is so challenging, debunked myths like bla

I had a great discussion on the SECURITYbreak podcast talking about security vulnerability research impacting Apple vision pro VR headsets, MasterCard’s acquisition of threat intelligence vendor Recorded Future, and some horrific aspects of cybercrim

The cybersecurity landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by rapid technological advancements and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. What was sufficient yesterday, will be lacking for tomorrow. Organizations must stay ahead of t

The recent CrowdStrike outage provides valuable lessons in how to avoid causing problems and being more resilient when faced with 3rd party vendor issues. CEOs, CIOs, and Board members have a clear responsibility to protect the business and the inve

The Supreme Court struck down the Chevron Doctrine, sharply cutting back the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they oversee and ruled that courts should rely on their own interpretation of ambiguous laws. The ramifications will have rip

California’s Department of Motor Vehicles will implement a blockchain to prevent vehicle title fraud. They will use Ava Labs’s Avalanche blockchain to allow over 39 million residents to claim and access their vehicle titles.

The online service is int

In the rapidly evolving field of software development, integrating advanced AI models like ChatGPT can provide significant advantages in enhancing user experience, automating customer support, and facilitating various development tasks. However, as w

Details emerge on how a bad CrowdStrike update was allowed to land on Windows systems and cause over 8 billion computers to fail.

I discuss their leadership and break down the preliminary Post Incident Review document to reveal the point of failure fo