“Hacking is satisfying one’s curiosity. Hacking is finding a way to accomplish a goal, never accepting no for an answer, and being more persistent and patient than anyone else. Hacking is pushing technology to its limits and making technology more resilient through testing, tinkering, and exploration. Hacking is a mindset, a culture, a spirit, and […]
While everyone else talks about 2020 predictions and New Year’s resolutions, let’s start the year with some practical and useful information…
We hear a lot about security orchestration, automation, and response. It will help us with our security skills gap. It will improve our operational efficiency, thus reducing mean time to detect and respond to incidents. It will give us more time for threat hunting. But how much is really being automated? In sponsorship with ServiceNow, […]
For decades, anyone analyzing network traffic concentrated on external network traffic, known as north-south traffic, through the perimeter via firewalls. Although firewalls evolved to better analyze this traffic, two primary trends emerged: 1) cloud adoption was causing the perimeter to become more porous, even to the point of extinction, and 2) as attackers gained sophistication, […]
We’ve heard the same story for years. Antivirus software is not effective in stopping cyber-attacks, as hackers have adapted their techniques to evade signature-based detections. Even next generation antivirus, which apply techniques such as machine learning and behavioral analytics, is no more effective at protecting an organization than its older sibling. But why? The simple […]
Security Weekly, the security podcast network for the security community and security market validation company for the security industry, announced today it has named security industry veteran, Matt Alderman, as Chief Executive Officer. “The security industry faces a constant addition of new security vendors in an already crowded and confusing market. Security Weekly cuts through […]
Honestly, that was my first thought when I started looking at the marketing material HP put together for Black Hat 2018 this year. HP has been promoting its efforts to provide security to its enterprise printers for the past couple years and has done a great job at offering secure solutions; even involving the security […]
The Most Valuable Resource of All: Time This post was authored by Paul Asadoorian, CEO and founder of Security Weekly. Over the last twenty years we have witnessed dramatic changes in the way companies write and ship code. First there was Waterfall, followed by the Agile movement in the early 2000’s, and now we find […]
This post was authored by Doug White, Cybersecurity professor and President of Secure Technology at Roger Williams University, and host of the Security Weekly show Secure Digital Life. This post is sponsored by STEALTHBits. For more information on STEALTHbits products, and to download free trials of their products, please visit https://stealthbits.com/security-weekly. Let’s talk about 3 […]
In early 2017, HP invited a group of cybersecurity industry bloggers and podcasters to gather for an HP Print Security “Tech Day” at their headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. The purpose of the gathering was to introduce the group to HP’s printer security program (#reinventsecurity), foster discussion, and get feedback on the program. This event […]
