By Charles Hall Palo Alto Networks is sponsoring a Federal Cyber Security Best Practices session on Thursday, March 19, 2015, from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM ET, with Rick Howard, Chief Security Officer for Palo Alto Networks. The event will be held at Arrow Electronics, 7067 Columbia Gateway Drive, Suit...
By Bob Gourley One of America’s most recognized brands, a firm that touches people around the globe, is conducting a confidential search for a CISO. A friend has asked me to keep my eyes and ears open to send names along if I know of a good fit. I love to be helpful to both […]...
By Bob Gourley To register for the 2015 IT Security Entrepreneurs Forum (ITSEF) see: http://www.security-innovation.org/ITSEF_2015-Agenda.htm The speakers lined up for this event are absolutely incredible. Every year I am more amazed than the year before at the incredible people Robert Rodriquez is...
By Bob Gourley For all our West Coast readers, please take advantage of an opportunity to interact with my long term friend, associate and co-founder of Cognitio, Bob Flores, during security innovation network (SINET) sessions 16 and 17 March. Bob is a former CTO of the Central Intelligence Agency a...
“‘We are Muslims, Christians, Jews,’ the wire-frame Guy Fawkes mask announces in an eerie robot voice. ‘We are hackers, crackers, hacktivists, phishers, agents, spies, or just the guy from next door…. ISIS, we will hunt you, take down your sites, accounts, emails, and expose you…. You wi...
“Before the Internet, when surveillance consisted largely of government-on-government espionage, agencies like the NSA would target specific communications circuits: that Soviet undersea cable between Petropavlovsk and Vladivostok, a military communications satellite, a microwave network. This was...
“Here’s a new strike against President Obama’s claim that his administration is the ‘most transparent administration in history': Hillary Clinton did not have a government email while she was secretary of State, The New York Times reported Monday night, and conducted all of her official work...
“A hacker group called TeamHans has leaked hundreds of megabytes of data allegedly stolen from the systems of Canadian communications and media company Rogers. According to DataBreaches.net, the attackers leaked sensitive corporate information such as contracts, emails, documents, and even VPN dat...