What Is The Future of Facial Recognition Technology?
May 2019 may be remembered as the tipping point when it comes to the use of facial recognition technologies, and the privacy concerns associated with it. The issue came to a head early in the month, when San Francisco became the first city to ban the use of facial...
Facebook Losing Face?
Discover what is facing an up to $5 billion dollar fine related to its data privacy issues with the latest breach occurring last month...
Why Can’t We Figure out this Cybersecurity Thing? Let’s Start by Avoiding the Noise and Hype
With so much of our world dependent on secure and stable IT networks, it’s a fair question to ask: Why aren’t we better already? It’s not like this IT flash creeped on us. Smart people, dating back decades even, identified vulnerabilities and sounded the...
The Algorithm: Its Role in Cybersecurity and Elsewhere
In today’s blog, George Platsis looks at the evolving role of AI in cybersecurity and makes the argument for unfettered access to information. There’s a lot of talk these days about online censorship, public manipulation, mass surveillance, and the role Big...
BIGGER IS BITTER
The bigger the better is a worn old chestnut of an expression that has distinct applicability to certain professional sports, say basketball for example, and clear downsides when applied to adverse events. In the latter example one might more readily turn to the...
Cybersecurity Requires a Whole of Organization Approach
I am confident many of you have heard the phrase “whole of government” before. Just in case you haven’t, in a nutshell, here is what it is: agencies and departments working across portfolios to execute on a shared purpose. For some time now, I have even called for a...
Revisiting the Cybersecurity Basics: An Independence Day Special
When writing this piece I was looking for a way to bridge the current cybersecurity issues we face on a daily basis against the backdrop of the nation’s birth and I saw no better way than making that connection. There are scholars and historians who will do a much...
Keep it Local: Cybersecurity is Everybody’s Problem
Two recent interactions – one business meeting and one personal conversation – prompted me to write this piece. Both these experiences, coupled with experiences over the last few years, drove me to these conclusions: People don’t see cybersecurity as a problem they...
Security By Design Applies to Organizations Too
If you are an engineer or software developer, there is a good chance that you have heard the phrase “security by design” before (sometimes also referred to as “secure by design”). If you are unfamiliar with the phrase, it pretty much means what you think it would...
Ask Yourself: Why Do You Amass Data?
Unless you have been living under a rock, you may have noticed that a growing number of people are not too pleased with Facebook and Alphabet Inc., parent of Google and developers of the mobile operating system, Android. What started the recent frustrations are the...