19 Jul, 2022 Cybersecurity, Washington is Stepping Up It's Game... By Bob Ackerman For many years now, Cyber has been the subject of a gnashing of teeth in Washington, D.C. There have been endless calls for "immediate...
27 May, 2022 Cybersecurity and Insider Threats - The Frenemy Dilemma By Bob Ackerman More than 50% of cybersecurity incidents have an "insider" component, where one of your "trusted" partners (employees, contractors,...
30 Apr, 2022 Cybersecurity Threats - A Growth Industry By Bob Ackerman While enterprises are increasing aware of the threats from digital adversaries and cybersecurity budgets accordingly continue to move...
13 Apr, 2022 Zero Trust - A Concept Whose Time has Come... By Bob Ackerman For many years, the refrain "Trust but Verify" described how most organizations approached cyber security. The basic concept embraced a...
01 Mar, 2022 AI In Cybersecurity - the Latest "Arm's Race" By Bob Ackerman Artificial Intelligence ("AI") has promised levels of intelligent automation that can materially level the playing field for cyber...
06 Feb, 2022 Identity - The Key to Cyber Secure By Bob Ackerman Identity is often referred to as the Achille's Heal of cyber secure. With forged or stolen identity, an attacker can access, unchecked,...
28 Jan, 2022 The Digital Achille's Heal - Supply Chains By Bob Ackerman While the vulnerabilities and failures of industrial supply chains are a daily topic in the news, the digital supply chains that...
15 Oct, 2021 Hybrid Work Environments - The New Insecurity By Bob Ackerman The Pandemic necessitated the evolution of the work place to hybrid office/home environments, moving many workers outside of the "secure"...
07 Oct, 2021 Ransomware Attacks Accelerate and No One is Safe... By Bob Ackerman While ransomware cyber attacks are in the news everyday, only a small percentage of those attacks are every reported. The statistics...
14 Sep, 2021 CyberSecurity and the Human Element - Problem & Solution By Bob Ackerman For years now, we have talked about the human element as the "weak link" in cyber security. Typically, this references human behavior and...
08 Aug, 2021 Ransomware - The "Wild West" of Cybersecurity... By Bob Ackerman The scourge of Ransomware continues to spread with ever increasing levels of sophistication. No entity is immune - businesses, schools,...
09 Jun, 2021 Cyber Security - Past Time to Take it Seriously By Bob Ackerman Daily news reports remind us of why cyber attacks are the existential threat to the Global Digital Economy. No organization, large or...