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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…

5 days ago

Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Prevention

Prevention lies somewhere between avoidance and protection, and preventative methods can belong to either. For example, what is stopping outsiders…

3 weeks ago

Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Avoidance

There are a number of confusing differences of opinion with respect to handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the confusion…

1 month ago

Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Plans, Exercises and Warnings

Like many others during this stay-at-home period, I have been sorting through old articles and reports, culling out those that…

2 months ago

Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Perception of Risk

The more “mature” among us may recall when decision-making under uncertainty was based on the concept of “rational economic man.”…

2 months ago

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…

3 months ago

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…

3 months ago

Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Models and Predictions

There are a number of different types of models—and the output from each must be viewed and used differently depending…

4 months ago

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…

4 months ago

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…

5 months ago