Overview“It is the policy of my Administration that the prevention, detection, assessment, and remediation of cyber incidents is a top priority and essential to national and economic security. The Federal Government must lead by example.”[1] So states the Executive Order (EO) on Improving The Nation’s Cybersecurity! Noble by intent, and certainly appropriate, it has not[…]
Summertime, and the living is, once again, easy—sort of. Just a few summers ago these were the days of occasional remote work, long weekends, holidays, vacations, and for some companies, shortened “summer hours”. As our work routines have made the separation of office, work, and personal time a fluid continuum, our risk perimeter and footprint[…]
Once upon a time…Some of us, those with mostly grey hair, more or less, may recall days without mobile phones, notebook computers, or even desktop devices. I know, I know, and we were all chased by dinosaurs to school, uphill, both ways, while hauling bookbags bursting with textbooks and homework, in blizzards…I get it. But[…]
There are lessons to be learned from the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. Panic is not one of them—it will yield no improvement nor progress for any situation. The event does strongly highlight how much more attention we need to pay to cyber risk now than past efforts demonstrate. The details of this ransomware incident are[…]