One of the oldest ciphers is known as the Caesar cipher. The way it works is to assign a number to every letter in the alphabet. In other words, this method assigns the numbers 1 through 26 to the letters A through Z. The encryption method works by taking the source text and offsetting it … Read more
Information security cultural iconography focuses on heroic and demonic archetypes, resulting in a pageant of evocative, emotional imagery that influences reportage, regulation, acquisition, enterprise governance, and the choices made by individuals with respect to their digital personae. The angels (in the epic struggle in the wires between good and evil) are the network defenders. They … Read more
Everyone loves to talk about the future of cybersecurity. However, most do not realize that in doing so, they’re using one of the most secure tools available to facilitate that conversation, the human voice. The voice connects us person-to-person, and when used as a component in enterprise, can securely connect us to our data around … Read more
Enterprises are moving their communications to the internet. Private networks are costly, inflexible, and do not easily enable the digital transformation of their businesses. However, over the last couple of years, we have seen a plethora of SD-WAN technologies come to market. Safe to say, SD-WAN adoption has accelerated. Unfortunately, SD-WAN has a number of … Read more
The free mapping in your phone is a powerful tool. And while it’s not designed to fire an artillery shell on a precision target, the app has all the basic features you need. So, why doesn’t the U.S. military ditch its expensive firing systems for free solutions? Because, while free products often have the features … Read more
This two-part article examines risks and implications related to securing American critical infrastructure. Part I examines the historical framework and the current state of critical infrastructure protection. Part II discusses ways threat responses can be improved. What happens if one day you awake and discover the power had gone off during the night? You may … Read more
Servers, laptops, mobile devices, routers, industrial control systems, fire control systems, elevator operations, are the connected technology components of modern life that perform particular functions, offer ease of use, and that represent risks and vulnerabilities to an organization’s cyber environment. The cyber environment is tied to physical devices, including networking equipment, intrusion detection systems, data … Read more
Where Blockchain Meets Cybersecurity Blockchain technology is a powerful public ledger that records every “block” of data as it moves across many computers. Businesses of all types and sizes have to deal with a lot of information on a daily basis. Data is usually an extremely valuable asset for their operations. But keeping it safe … Read more
We are currently in an unfortunate situation where universally, every business model predicates itself around connectivity. In fact, to be on the edge of innovation is to connect, to everything, before anyone else connects. With each new development, security suffers immediately. The incredulity that is always met with a new Facebook data breach is going … Read more
Forty percent of the data breaches for 2017 were reported as involving credit card data, according to the 2018 Trustwave Global Security Report.1 The data breaches analyzed used attacks such as phishing/social engineering, malicious insiders, and misconfigurations. This is illustrated below in Figure 1: Methods of Compromise2. Those numbers likely do not include hundreds of … Read more
