On August 28, the United States admitted to carrying out an airstrike, widely reported to have come from a drone, which killed an ISIS hacker by the name of Junaid Hussain. He was killed in Syria four days earlier on August 24. This strike represents the latest escalation in the United States’ evo...
FedCyber Conference co-chairs Matt Devost and Bob Gourley are pleased to announce that registration for the 10 Nov 2015 FedCyber Summit and Threat Expo is now open. Please reserve your seat today by registering here (as always, the FedCyber Summit is free for federal government employees). Every ye...
By Charles Hall If you’re interested in cyber security and operations at the federal level, check out the AFCEA Defensive Cyber Operations Symposium. This event combines the JIE Mission Partners Symposium and the International Cyber Symposium to increase dialogue among key participants, br...
By Katie Kennedy Cybercrime is now a trillion dollar industry. Cyber criminals are becoming more sophisticated; therefore, a new solution is needed. The newest white paper added to the CTOvision Research Library highlights cybercrime and how to detect and prevent cyber attacks with the Enterprise S...
The Cyber Threat is a booklet published to succinctly articulate the nature of the cyber threat in ways designed to help business leaders come to terms with the nature of this phenomenon. The book is available on Amazon (and is free to Kindle Unlimited subscribers). The book provides a high leve...
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 Leon Panetta spoke today at the Symantec government conference in DC. No matter what your politics are, I hope you see this man as a great American who always puts country above himself. I believe that. He has spent his entire adult life proving that. He is a fantastic speaker. He hel...
By Paul Goldernberg Editor’s note: In this guest post Paul Goldernberg brings more focus to the cyber security concerns facing many Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). NGO’s are typically non-profit organizations that pursue social aims. With over 1.5 million NGOs in the US alone, they presen...