Tony Kontzer

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While mind-blowing technological innovations are being demonstrated and perspective-shifting strategies and philosophies shared in every corner of next week's RSA Conference in San Francisco, it's very possible that the gathering of more than 50,000 cybersecurity practitioners will be the most "human" in the nearly three-decade history of the event. Let ... Read More

Just about all of us have been there. By some estimates, it's more likely than not that any given American had some data stolen last year. Compromised data is an increasingly common part of our lives. Sometimes it's a school that's breached. Other times it's an email provider. Occasionally it's ... Read More

Cyber security used to be so easy. Set up a perimeter, keep everything out, and eliminate any anomalies. But then the Internet happened, and then the cloud, and now the Internet of Things, and suddenly, we're not in Kansas anymore. Security has become a lot more complicated. As a result ... Read More

It's the regulatory version of Y2K, they said. It's there to appease all the privacy advocates, they insisted. It'll never result in any fines, some suggested. And when Europe's General Data Protection Regulation went into effect last May, the general response of U.S. corporations could be described as ranging from ... Read More

Here's the thing about privacy: When there weren't so many ways to compromise it, it was pretty easy to protect. But with privacy having evolved into an immensely more complicated concept than it was pre-Internet, protecting it has also become more complicated. Perhaps more than any year that preceded it, ... Read More

As 2018 comes to an end, and we head into an era in which artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and powerful data analytics are expected to fuel the quantity and value of data, there is one industry that may face more daunting responsibilities than any other because of the ... Read More

So, about this Internet of Things, uh, thing. There may be a slight problem. As the world rushes to connect anything and everything to the Internet, the resulting explosion of IoT devices presents one of the most challenging and complicated threats that cyber security professionals have faced. IoT devices are ... Read More

When the topics of cybersecurity and Christmas are combined, it's difficult not to think of 2013, when Target was hit by the most notorious of holiday season data breaches. The fact that we still cite a 5-year-old event hints that cybersecurity may have gotten a bit better since then. Somehow, ... Read More

In recent years, the topic of the lack of women in the cybersecurity workforce has been somewhat of a cause célèbre, but the results of efforts to promote progress have been mixed at best. Anyone who has walked around the annual RSA Conference or any other large security gathering surely ... Read More

Americans do a whole lot of fretting about cyber security, and with good reason. We all read about the breaches that have become daily occurrences; we receive constant reminders to protect one's online identity when using computers and mobile devices, and we're warned more and more about bad guys coming ... Read More