Author: Chris Rutherford, CISSP, CAP

Mr. Rutherford is a Senior Strategic Cyber Consultant with LMI’s Systems Development Division. In this capacity, he works with clients to provide cybersecurity-related management and analytical services in support of customer mission/business needs. Mr. Rutherford has over 15 years of experience in IT and Cybersecurity including over 7 years as the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (DCISO) for the Department of the Interior. He currently holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Authorization Professional (CAP) certifications from (ISC)2. Mr. Rutherford can be reached at crutherford@lmi.org.

From the Winter 2017 Issue

Security through Planned Destruction— Using the Cloud to Reduce APT Risk 

Author(s):

Chris Rutherford, CISSP, CAP, Senior Strategic Cyber Consultant, LMI

David K. Shepherd, CISSP, PMP, Senior Consultant, LMI

Many network attacks gaining attention today are advanced persistent threats (APT) that aim to maintain access for long-term data exfiltration. The advent of cloud infrastructure provides a new avenue of defense against persistent network attacks. The ability to plan the destruction and re-creation of virtual machines in the cloud environment can dramatically reduce the time … Read more