Bob Gourley We were honored again to be named to FedTech’s list of 50 must-read federal IT Blogs. From FedTech’s intro to the list: It was a whirlwind year in the world of federal IT, with the White House, Office of Management and Budget, and many agencies focused on cybersecurity, IT mo...
Junaid Islam I’m often puzzled when I get emails with the words “confidential” or “private” in the subject line as if cyber attackers will be careful not read them. Obviously the title is a joke. Unfortunately the national security issues relating to sensitive content is no laughing ma...
Junaid Islam In a few months we’ll have a new Administration in Washington and a chance to update our national security policies. So it’s good time to reflect on what we might want to do differently for cybersecurity. A quick search on the Internet will reveal many national cybersecurity initi...
Bob Gourley The Security Innovation Network (SINET) is an organization on a particularly virtuous mission. It seeks to advance innovation and enable global collaboration between the public and private sectors to defeat cybersecurity threats. Supported by the US Department of Homeland Security Scienc...
Junaid Islam The last few years have been a difficult time for those who protect data. Defense-in-depth, the gold standard in cyber security, has failed. The basis behind defense-in-depth is to deploy redundant layers of security products to defeat every part the cyber kill chain. Unfortunately insi...
Junaid Islam Security professionals by their nature are risk averse. Thus it’s no surprise that the security industry is defined by incremental innovation. Start with something that works and make it better. Unfortunately “innovative security” strategy is leading to an increase i...
Charles Parker Information security is pertinent to all businesses in all industries and across all levels of government. Some do it well and some do it poorly. All should seek to learn lessons, both from those that do it well and those that fail. This post dives into an organization that is recover...
Bob Gourley During interview today with GovMatters.tv I’ll be discussing an observation many of us in the enterprise technology community have been discussing lately. There is a growing consensus in the enterprise tech community (CIO, CTO, CISO) regarding the Cambrian Explosion of great capab...