From the Publisher

Greetings!

Welcome to the Spring 2025 issue of the United States Cybersecurity Magazine!  As always, we’d like to take a moment to thank our supporters, members, sponsors, contributors, and everyone else who makes the magazine possible.  All of us here at the United States Cybersecurity Magazine remain committed to bringing you, our readers, the best and most topical cybersecurity information available.

At United States Cybersecurity Magazine, we want to recognize that you are the community that turns problems into solutions, and innovations into products with the potential to make life safer and more secure for all Americans.

With that in mind, it’s important to call out the significant challenges that our industry faces every day. Perhaps none of these challenges is greater than ensuring that we solve the hard, time-consuming, technical problems that make the difference between a thriving America and cyber-chaos while at the same time ensuring that our companies are growing and successful.

Squaring that circle requires a number of things: We must be able to see and understand the big picture. Cybersecurity isn’t an end in and of itself, it’s one of the means by which organizations accomplish their missions. Tesla, for example, produces and sells automobiles. It may have a robust cybersecurity capability, but any enhancement to Tesla’s cybersecurity capabilities that interferes with or hampers its ability to build and sell cars is net destructive, not generative. We must also maintain continual awareness of new and emerging technologies and how they fit into, disrupt, or change the broad cyber ecosystem. And we must, of course, keep a watchful eye on our business’ bottom lines, ever aware of what we do or what we’re perceived to be doing will impact our ability to maximize business and shareholder value.

It’s a bit of a tightrope, and walking it successfully demands, more than anything else, honesty. We need to be honest with ourselves about the state of the market, the state of technology, the state of our capabilities, and what the real threats are. We must be honest with our stakeholders and shareholders. And we must be honest with our customers. As tempting as short-term gain may look, in the end it’s a long-term loss for everyone.

This level of honesty requires continuous introspection and learning. Technology evolves rapidly, with new opportunities and risks continually emerging. When we acknowledge both limitations and strengths, we better equip ourselves to support an effective American cybersecurity capacity.

Honesty also demands collaboration and knowledge-sharing within our community and the larger American nation that it serves. Honesty about success, and perhaps more importantly, honesty about failure, enables continuous learning and improvement. That, in turn, enables collaboration, creativity, and communication that lead to continuous improvement.

Honesty is essential.

And that’s where you come in.  Success in cybersecurity means being accountable to the people we serve.  Our challenge is to respond to continually expand our knowledge in a way that benefits and advances the entire community and country.  It’s one of the reasons why we at United States Cybersecurity Magazine produce this publication. There’s so much all of us can do to empower users to work securely.  We can speak.  We can lobby. We can be loud and clear when things go wrong about what went wrong and how we’re going to fix them.  We owe it to our nation and to our future. 

We includes YOU.  Help us raise awareness about how educating for cybersecurity is an essential component of American prosperity.  Let us showcase your solutions to real problems. 

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The Cybersecurity industry deserves a voice of its own; hence, the United States Cybersecurity Magazine.