Cybersecurity Executive, Speaker & Strategist
You’re Outsourcing Risk That’s Easy to Reduce Having worked in the world of email filtering for more than 15 years, I know a thing or two about the proper email configuration settings necessary to dramatically reduce SPAM and phishing. Over…
What Happened? Hackerbot-claw – an AI bot, running autonomously for a week, scanned 47,000 repos and compromised at least 6 major targets including Microsoft, DataDog, Aqua Security, CNCF projects, and popular tools like RustPython and Trivy by opening more than…
CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report finds that the average attacker breakout time has dropped to just 29 minutes for financially motivated attackers in 2025. That’s a whopping 65% acceleration year-over-year with the fastest observed breakout time clocking in at 27…
Anthropic shipped Remote Control for Claude Code today — and developers are losing their minds over it. You can now kick off a complex coding session at your desk, walk away, and keep full control from your phone. It’s genuinely…
On Friday, Investing.com reported that shares of cybersecurity software companies tumbled after Anthropic introduced Claude Code Security. CrowdStrike was among the biggest decliners, falling 8%, while Cloudflare slumped 8.1%. Zscaler dropped 5.5%, SailPoint shed 9.4%, and Okta declined 9.2%. The…
I started seeking the next step in my career a few weeks ago. I first updated my resume and set my LinkedIn profile to “Open to Work” for recruiters and hiring teams to see my status. I also put a…
People by nature don’t like to be told what to do. Most people would rather be told what needs to be done and left to their own devices to produce the end result. That approach works fine if you are…
A company can have the best security controls in place, have a staff that is highly security-aware and have what they consider outstanding security practices in place and yet bad things can and do happen. Many times, security breaches are…
A recent post by Kendra Cooley led to a lively discussion around the value of SOC2 attestations. She followed this up with an article that goes into a bit more depth. Discussion around these sorts of issues is always educational.…
Happy New Year! As I began 2024, I spent a little time last weekend evaluating my online presence and personal security practices. I thought it would be worth sharing my perspective on how I manage my personal online accounts and…
Cybersecurity seems to dominate our lives. So much of our lives are dependent upon the Internet as we use connected devices to manage our shopping, finances and communications. The amount of data consumed and copied worldwide in 2010 was about…
In 2013, malicious actors stole 40 million credit card numbers and the personal details from 70 million customers in what has become known as the Target data breach. For those of you that don’t know, Target is a very large…