Businesses face a persistent dilemma: how to leverage social media and other online marketing (AKA potential client dating) tools without becoming an obvious target for a malicious actor? How do you attract the attention you want but block the kind you don’t? From the perspective of playing hard to forget, businesses should maintain a respectable […]
Simply Cyber: How I Spent My Summer Vacation — Bedbugs and Bots
When I came up with this title I thought it just sounded like a funny and alliterative lead-in to talking about cyber parasites that one can pick up while traveling. It turns out there really are human bot flies that pass their larvae through mosquitoes to human hosts. In a disturbing parallel to the way […]
Simply Cyber: Securing the Mesh
May is for mothers, mudders (go Justify!), and mesh. What? Wireless mesh networking is—increasingly—our digital connection to the critical infrastructures that gird up (grid up?) our 21st century commercial, political, and social life. This pervasive interconnected mesh is composed of a broad range of devices that enable capabilities like virtualization, Software as a Service (SaaS), […]
Simply Cyber: Cyber Security for the Aerospace and Defense Supply Chain Security and Compliance for Every Tier
Companies in the aerospace and defense supply chain may be classified under several of the 16 US critical infrastructure sectors identified in Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21) as “vital to public confidence and the Nation’s safety, prosperity, and well-being.” Components of this supply chain include companies in the defense industrial base sector, obviously, as well […]
Simply Cyber: Beating the Odds
Beating the Odds: One Chance in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 By Jennifer Kurtz, Cyber Program Director What are your odds for picking the perfect security bracket around your information and its supporting systems? Probably worse than the odds of crafting the perfect March Madness bracket, which some mathematicians calculate as one in 9.2 quintillion. And yet, you probably […]
Simply Cyber: Elementary School Lessons on Security
Remember the safe (and good) answer to the question: “How much do you love me?” It is “more than yesterday but not as much as tomorrow.” The same answer applies to the question: “How secure is your business?” As threats and attack surfaces (more discussion on these in the next Simply Cyber) proliferate, choosing a […]
