There’s a pervasive, false perception in contemporary politics. The candidate that advocates spending the most on something cares most about solving the problem. Today’s endpoint protection suites are similarly ranked. Those with the longer list of features are ranked higher. Similarly, like features are seldom compared one-to-one but are presumed little different among different suites. […]

One of today’s most widespread cybersecurity principles seems prudent on the surface but has made the enterprise cyber program a bloated, lumbering beast of burden. Defense in depth is simple to intuit; it is as obvious as two heads are better than one. Reality demands, however, that the enterprise optimize. How many are too many? […]

If ever in a freezing cold room with IT/Sec-Ops people, raising the topic of patch management can heat it up fast. Patching applications on an organization’s client and server endpoints is far more challenging than most people realize. The uncertainty over what applications need to be patched in the next cycle makes it seem a […]

Soldiers in combat over the last century rapidly grow accustomed to the distant cacophony of artillery and bombs. Some even get desensitized to nearby explosions. How many of us react with shock and horror at a data breach headline? Few do. We all hear them rumbling in the distance all the time. Look at all […]

Introducing the Cyber Concepts Series The articles in this series are intended to be conceptual expositions on technical topics. Engineers and uber security analysts likely prefer far more nuanced details. The non-technical person will find these articles a bit of a stretch, straddling the fence between ‘too simple’ and ‘too much’. The ultimate purpose of […]

While most people worry that the Equifax data breach will cause a spike in identity theft and other cyber fraud, maybe we should be more concerned if this does NOT happen. Articles about Equifax and the breach headlined periodicals not just in the trade rags but also in the mainstream. Such coverage surprises no one […]