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Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Hubris

On Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update,”, Kate McKinnon plays Dr. Wayne Wenowdis, the all-knowing physician. In response to COVID-19 and vaccine questions, she says “we know dis,” except when “we don’t know ...

Malicious vs. Malevolent Software Programs

I was recently criticized—and rightly so—for interpreting malware to mean “malevolent software” when indeed it is commonly used to mean malicious software, whereas malevolent is used to describe programs—malograms?! So, I decided ...

CISA and Desist

It’s an old joke: “Heads I win, tails you lose,” but it can also play out in reality. How often do cybersecurity professionals end up on the wrong side of that bet? ...

Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Protection

To paraphrase an old saying: “One person’s prevention is another person’s protection.” This may well apply to the wearing of masks during the pandemic, the efficacy of which is still being hotly ...

The Massive Shift to Cyber Crime

There is a cartoon in The New Yorker of March 30, 2020 showing four mobsters, one with a gun, sitting around a table. The caption reads: “For health and safety reasons, we’ll ...

The Demise of the Internal Datacenter and Consequential Risks

Recently, I happened upon a short article about the demise of internal data centers in favor of cloud services. The article, by John Delaney, appeared on page 28 of the May 2020 ...

Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Metrics and Decision-Making

We have discussed previously, such as in my May 18, 2020 BlogInfoSec column, some of the more challenging characteristics of data, such as those relating to value and uncertainty, which are generally ...

Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Data – Part 2

Having discussed issues relating to the collection and reporting of COVID-19 data in Part 1, we now turn to cyberspace, even though the jury is still out regarding much of the pandemic ...

Cybercriminals’ Motivations during Catastrophic Times

Brittany Haynes wrote an article about “How Criminals Are Benefitting From the COVID-19 Crisis” on March 19, 2020, which is available at https://www.igi-global.com/newsroom/archive/malicious-threat-your-inbox-covid/4477?utm_source=IGI+Global+Products+and+Publishing+Opportunities&utm_campaign=58a5a8500d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_Research_Trends_1_19_wk1_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bcbd627034-58a5a8500d-47781814 Haynes’s article references a March 9, 2020 article by ...

Cybersecurity Risk Management … Beyond the “Golden Period”

Where do we stand with the management of cybersecurity risk? Answer … Not in a good place. This position was further augmented upon reading an article in the January 23, 2020 Washington ...