Human Elements
Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic – Positive and Negative Feedback
Systems use negative feedback in order to converge to stability and equilibrium (a positive quest). Positive-feedback systems diverge, which leads to instability and sometimes surging out of control (usually a negative outcome) ...
Value and Uncertainty in Pandemic Metrics
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily briefings have become a mainstay of support for many during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially with New York being the initial epicenter of the disease in the ...
Security Risks during Recovery and Repair
With “all hands-on deck” battling the coronavirus pandemic, it is difficult to turn one’s attention to recovery and reconstruction of the many organizations that have had to be reduced or closed down ...
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 ...
Strong Authentication is Good, Unless …
… it results in your being arrested! In her September 28, 2019 article, “Army communication head at Mar-a-Lago sentenced for lying,” Jane Musgrave describes how an army officer in charge of communications ...
The Cybersecurity Paradox
In “Our Neurotic ‘Privacy’ Paradox” by Jennifer Senior, which appeared in The New York Times of May 19, 2019, the reporter makes the following statement: “Resignation [to the loss of privacy] also ...
Cyberspace’s Weapons of Mass Deconstruction
The cyberworld is replete with exhibitionists and voyeurs, facilitated by social-network (or should I say social-engineering) technologies such as those provided by Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram, and others. Even seemingly staid news ...
Is AI For, or Against, Cybersecurity?
With the rapid proliferation of so-called AI (artificial intelligence) systems (many of which are really just rebranded expert systems), we cybersecurity professionals are confronted with two critical issues, namely: Can AI methods ...
