The views and opinions expressed in this blog do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of SecureIQLab, but probably dovetail nicely with the views and opinions of the majority of cybersecurity professionals. This is painful to write. The monumental ignorance demonstrated by the manner in which the University of ... Read More

paypal is implementing chatbots inline with new content, and using it for training purposes after feeding its AI model. This creates problems ... Read More

Recently, I bought a Ring security system. I had to. My fiancé said she wouldn’t marry me if we didn’t have a security system. I call it my Wedding Ring now! Ok, everything I said, except for getting the Ring cameras, was fabricated in order to make a painful, yet ... Read More

I can’t count how many times I’ve heard vulnerabilities called exploits and exploits called vulnerabilities. I’ve even heard payloads called exploits or vulnerabilities. That’s okay for an exploit if the exploit is a payload. If you already know all of this stuff, perhaps this blog will help you explain the ... Read More

I can’t count how many times I’ve heard vulnerabilities called exploits and exploits called vulnerabilities. I’ve even heard payloads called exploits or vulnerabilities. That’s okay for an exploit if the exploit is a payload. If you already know all of this stuff, perhaps this blog will help you explain the ... Read More

When we at SecureIQLab test security products, we go above and beyond reporting efficacy and cost; we also quantify operational efficiency and a metric we call ROSI: Return on Security Investment. Operational efficiency accounts for costs such as deployment and the ongoing cost of using the product. If a product ... Read More

When we at SecureIQLab test security products, we go above and beyond reporting efficacy and cost; we also quantify operational efficiency and a metric we call ROSI: Return on Security Investment. Operational efficiency accounts for costs such as deployment and the ongoing cost of using the product. If a product ... Read More

For a time when I worked at Microsoft, in my department, the booze cart would come by every Friday afternoon for happy hour, and we’d get free alcoholic beverages. The legal department shut that down because they used ALE. Ironic that ALE ended happy hour, isn’t it? Read on, and ... Read More

For a time when I worked at Microsoft, in my department, the booze cart would come by every Friday afternoon for happy hour, and we’d get free alcoholic beverages. The legal department shut that down because they used ALE. Ironic that ALE ended happy hour, isn’t it? Read on, and ... Read More

The rapid adoption of could computing was yesterday’s news 5 years ago. Today’s news is that one of the most critical cloud security technologies is woefully ineffective. In addition to efficacy, it is critical to measure operational efficiency. In other words, it doesn’t matter how effective a solution can be ... Read More