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From the Summer 2018 Issue

An Outsider’s Look at the United States Cyber Command: The 10TH Unified and 4TH Functional Combatant Command

Author(s):

Cesar Pie, Strategist, Defensive Cyber Solutions Branch

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The 10TH Unified and 4TH Functional Combatant Command The United States (U.S.), along with its allies and potential foes, are witnessing an unprecedented fast–paced evolution of the 21st century cyberspace domain landscape. As it relates to our military advancements, key milestones have included: the establishment of the U.S. Cyber Command or USCYBERCOM on June 23, … Read more

From the Summer 2018 Issue

BEARING THE BREACH: The Buzz About Cyber Insurance

Author(s):

Morgan Holmes, Commercial Property & Casualty Broker, Insurance Force

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Is your data connection really safe? What happens if your secure Internet connection is not so secure? What are the chances of a breach happening to you? Would your company be able to recover from a data breach? No matter what your primary business market is or your company’s size, in today’s marketplace, electronic communications … Read more

From the Summer 2018 Issue

Value Chain Maps for Open Source Ecosystems

Author(s):

Chris Corriere, Senior DevOps Advocate, SJ Technologies

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We can’t make it from scratch anymore In his TED Talk, “How I built a toaster – from scratch”1, designer Thomas Thwaites demonstrates how our global society stands on the shoulders of giants. Thomas attempted to reverse-engineer a toaster so he could build one from scratch. However, the simplest toaster he could find had over … Read more

From the Summer 2018 Issue

TEOTWAWKI: The Impending Cryptopocalypse

Author(s):

Adam Firestone, Editor-in-Chief , United States Cybersecurity Magazine

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In 1889, the New York publisher John Wiley & Sons published an obscure scientific piece by Daniel S. Troy titled The Cosmic Law of Thermal Repulsion: An Essay Suggested by the Projection of a Comet’s Tail. On page 60 of this text, Troy suggests that if the forces of “thermal repulsion” or “gravitational attraction” were … Read more

From the Summer 2018 Issue

Moving Target Defense with Polymorphic Applications

Author(s):

Danny Gershman, Founder and CEO, Radius Method

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While the internet has existed for several decades, it’s only in recent years that security has become a popular concern. Cybersecurity tools and products now are a multi-billion dollar industry. Security engineers and executives continue to mitigate risk by trying to accurately quantify where their organizations might be vulnerable. Measuring security risk is hard. Typically, … Read more

From the Summer 2018 Issue

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Author(s):

Adam Firestone, Editor-in-Chief , United States Cybersecurity Magazine

Hello, It is time to take off the polarized cyberglasses, America, because what we choose not to see can kill us. The language of cybersecurity is laced with modal verbs and their auxiliaries such as “should,” “must,” and “ought to.” These words and phrases are used to express ability, possibility, permission, or obligation. They enable … Read more

From the Summer 2018 Issue

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Karen Austin, CEO, United States Cybersecurity Magazine

Greetings, Welcome to the Summer 2018 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 are dedicated to bringing you, our readers, the best … Read more

From the Spring 2018 Issue

Dark Web Investigations

Author(s):

Paul Kubler, Red Team Lead, CYBRI

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The dark web has been sensationalized in the news, movies, and on television dramas. The dark web, and the less commonly discussed deep web, make up a part of the internet that is not accessible via search engines, like Google or Bing. This part of the internet dates to the 1990s when lists of sites … Read more

From the Spring 2018 Issue

NotPetya Holds Up a Stop Sign for FedEx

Author(s):

Barbara Bouldin, Director of Technologies Research, SJ Technologies

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What Happened On June 27, 2017 the NotPetya malware hit the Ukraine, targeting Kyivenergo, an electric power supplier to Kiev. NotPetya went on to hit a shipping company, Maersk, a pharmaceutical company, Merck, and a delivery and distribution company, TNT Express, a subsidiary of FedEx. Employees in the TNT Express offices faced displays of a … Read more

From the Spring 2018 Issue

Shifting Left: Secure Systems Engineering

Author(s):

Hilary MacMillan, EVP for Engineering, CyLogic

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The Shift Left principle1 is well known in software and systems development, particularly in relation to testing. It’s the idea of performing test activities earlier in the system development life cycle – developing test cases and procedures and performing incremental testing as code is being written. Ideally, test activities start even earlier than this, designing … Read more