“The next hacker playground: the open seas – and the oil tankers and container vessels that ship 90 percent of the goods moved around the planet. In this internet age, as more devices are hooked up online, so they become more vulnerable to attack. As industries like maritime and energy connect s...
Tim Dombrowski, partner at the highly renowned VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, has just provided us with an update on their 20 May 2014 technology and government event. Tim writes that: We have a great lineup of speakers that have recently confirmed including Marc Andreessen, General Keith Alexander...
“The FBI has warned healthcare providers their cybersecurity systems are lax compared to other sectors, making them vulnerable to attacks by hackers searching for Americans’ personal medical records and health insurance data. Health data is far more valuable to hackers on the black market than c...
With this post we initiate coverage of CSG Invotas. CSG Invotas is a new division of CSG International which focuses on providing security automation and orchestration solutions to both public and private sector clients. Developed after years of working to automate security solutions for the federal...
By Bob Gourley We previously wrote about the 21-22 May O’Reilly Solid Conference in San Francisco and just heard from the organizers that a significant number of registrations came from that write-up. That makes this event even more exciting for me, it means our readers are into this topic in mea...
By Bob Gourley Our site CISOtech.com is a repository of articles and information of interest to enterprise security professionals. Any reporting we do here at CTOvision that has relevance for the CISO is archived at that site, plus evaluations on cyber security technologies of interest. We also tail...
By ShannonPerry Throughout 2012, Iran targeted United States banks and companies with a series of distributed denial-of-services cyber attacks. The attacks doubled and sometimes tripled the amount of traffic that the American websites were capable of handling. Many considered the attacks retaliation...
By Bob Gourley We have previously written about Hexis Cyber Solutions (see evaluation here). With this post we provide more context on some of the enterprise security needs addressed by HawkEye-G from Hexis. The following are some key technology considerations from an enterprise technology persp...