Maurice Uenuma :**Maurice Uenuma is VP & GM, Americas and security strategist at Blancco, collaborating with an excellent team to deliver the world's leading data erasure, IT asset disposition, and mobile lifecycle solutions to address privacy, security, and sustainability needs. Prior to Blancco, Maurice was Vice President, Federal & Enterprise with Tripwire, supporting state governments and large enterprises in the United States. Prior to joining Tripwire, he was Vice President at the Center for Internet Security (CIS), and served as Workforce Management co-chair of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Working Group at NIST. Earlier, Maurice held leadership roles at Perot Systems and Dell, and served for nine years as an infantry and special operations officer in the United States Marine Corps. Maurice holds a Master’s degree in National Security Studies from Georgetown University, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, and is a GIAC-certified Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP).
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AI and Quantum Computing Threaten Encryption and Data Security
Maurice Uenuma | | AI, Cybersecurity, data attack surface, Data Security, data security techniques, encryption, GenAI, quantum computing
The combination of AI and quantum computing in the wrong hands are enough of a security concern to give pause to even the most experienced technologists ... Read More
Security Boulevard
HITRUST: the Path to Cyber Resilience
There has been a lot of talk recently about cyber resilience. There is no doubt that the ability to bounce back from a security event is important, however, all of the resiliency banter seems to be happening at the peril of sound risk management processes. It is safe to say ... Read More
Integrity: A Key Facet of Zero Trust
On May 12, The White House published its Executive Order (EO) on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. The directive outlined a set of focus areas intended to improve cybersecurity for the federal government and critical infrastructure sectors including information sharing, supply chain security, endpoint detection and response, and cloud security. Of ... Read More
How Tripwire Can Be a Partner on Your Zero Trust Journey
In a previous blog post, I discussed the different applications of integrity for Zero Trust and provided four use cases highlighting integrity in action. The reality is that many organizations can’t realize any of this on their own. But they don’t need to. They can work with a company like ... Read More
Tripwire Experts Offer Point of View on Zero Trust at EO’s 6-Month Milestone
When the Biden Administration released its Cybersecurity Executive Order in May 2021, it was clear that Zero Trust would be a central component of the government’s security approach moving forward. Agencies and their partners scrambled to assess their existing Zero Trust investments and the gaps that would need to be ... Read More
99% of Federal Security Pros Feel the U.S. Government Must Do More to Protect Its Data and Systems
As you’ll recall, the White House published an Executive Order (EO) on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity back in May 2021. The EO issued several commands such as creating a Cyber Safety Review Board to lead post-incident analysis of significant security events and requiring software developers to make data about their ... Read More
How to Leverage NIST Cybersecurity Framework for Data Integrity
Together with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a series of practice guides that focuses on data integrity. Data integrity is the property that records have not been altered in an unauthorized manner. Tripwire is very proud to have ... Read More
Letting Go While Holding On: Managing Cyber Risk in Cloud Environments
As recently as 2017, security and compliance professionals at many of Tripwire’s large enterprise and government customers were talking about migration to the cloud as a possibility to be considered and cautiously explored in the coming years. Within a year, the tone had changed. What used to be “we’re thinking ... Read More
Cybersecurity Is Every Leader’s Job
Every organization is led by people who are responsible for setting the overall direction, establishing priorities, maintaining influence over organizational functions and mitigating risks. Given the wide range of organizational types across industry sectors, the titles associated with these roles may vary greatly from CEO to Managing Director to Owner-Operator ... Read More
Cybersecurity Is (Still) Everyone’s Job
As noted previously—and as we all know—an organization cannot be secure until the entire workforce is engaged in reducing cyber risks. Each member of the group has the power to harm or to help, since each one has access to information systems, handles sensitive data and makes decisions every day ... Read More