When a smishing (SMS-phishing) attack poses as your bank and rips you off thousands of dollars through Zelle, who’s responsible and accountable for the? Is it your bank, since they cover other types of fraudulent losses? Is it Zelle, since it was their platform that...
Competence Before Certification: A Letter to Cybersecurity Students
To Current and Future Students, Our jobs are not easy. By ‘our,’ I mean yours and mine. We prepare long hours, studying to create a technical foundation. We work to understand the ins and outs of networks, applications, and firewalls. We painstakingly analyze...
Russia, Ukraine, and Your Cybersecurity
Conflict questions loom large—when will Russia invade Ukraine? How will Europe respond, and how will the US react? In the anxiety produced by the physical presence of Russian troops surrounding Ukraine, we can overlook the other forms of Russian aggression against...
Bridging the Emotional Gap in Cybersecurity
How do you feel about cybersecurity? We know that cybersecurity is a primarily a human endeavor – an endeavor driven by human decisions and conflicts that are escalated or resolved through a cyber professional’s human skill. Technology helps, but it’s just a tool. If...