I was reading Brian Krebs blog (excellent if you don’t follow it), when this graph struck me. If you only block the most expensive three, you cut your potential losses by 90%. Just something I noticed and thought I would mention because it fits with a post I have been working on about the downside… Continue reading If You Can Only Block 3 Ransomware Attacks…
Allow me to explain why we need to start in pre-K, as soon as girls start in the school system. If the foundations don’t get laid very early on, the rest of the sequence just won’t happen because it won’t be able to happen. The conditions for it simply will not exist. The biggest problem… Continue reading Women In Technology – Creating the Pipeline of Candidates
…now you gotta decide how much you’re going to give up, how much of your intellectual independence.” Chamath Palihapitiya, who was vice-president for user growth at Facebook This isn’t traditional IT security but I think its relevant. When I see businesses burning, I see a lack of security. When I see companies hiring private security… Continue reading Media Engagement Metrics and Recommendation Engines
Why Paranoia is a Good Thing As Harold Finch was fond of saying in Person of Interest, ‘It’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you.’ The old security model included a perimeter, with a gate and an inner wall. We called it the DMZ. With customers and vendors increasingly connecting to internal… Continue reading Supply Chain Hacking
“Magna Turris” literally means “Great Tower”. It’s the medieval Latin term for the great keep at the center of the castle. So why did I pick an obscure term in a dead language for my domain name? Castles are pretty symbolic for me. I deal with perimeters and ingress/egress points, etc. when dealing with security.… Continue reading Why a castle?
