You have seen it before: juggling multiple hats, a list that never grows smaller, a workplace small enough to feel familial but constantly slightly understaffed. That is the feeling of a small workplace, and more than likely, you work in one. 99.9% of US businesses...
While discipline without passion is boredom, passion without discipline is chaos. Passion, driven by curiosity, is a key attribute that sets apart great cybersecurity professionals. Actually, I think it sets apart virtually anyone in their chosen field. All too often,...
Next-Gen. AI. Attack Vector. CIA Triad. Deep Learning. Each of these has one thing in common: they represent cybersecurity buzzwords. Merriam-Webster dictionary aptly defines ‘buzzword’ as “an important-sounding usually technical word or phrase often of little meaning...
As a follow up to last week's article, we had the opportunity to interview Dr. Mark Wells and Dr. James Tippey on the importance of good character in cybersecurity. Dr. Wells has a background in ethics and philosophy while Dr. Tippey has a background in both...
The start of this year’s Fourth of July holiday indicates we are not as independent or free as we should be when it comes to cybersecurity. On July 2, 2021, one of the largest supply-chain cyberattacks since SolarWinds occurred at Kaseya, an IT management software...
We had the opportunity to interview both Dr. Mark Wells and Dr. James Tippey on the importance of critical thinking in cybersecurity. Dr. Wells has a background in ethics and philosophy while Dr. Tippey has a background in both cybersecurity and religion; together,...
With close to 20 years of experience, cybersecurity professional Ed Carroll shares the important difference between repetition and discipline in his field in the following article. Currently, Ed works full-time as a Senior Director for the Carolina Cyber Center. "The...
We had the privilege of interviewing Ed Skoudis on his journey into cybersecurity, and the importance of curiosity as a cybersecurity professional. Ed is a recognized expert in penetration testing and incident response. With over twenty years of teaching experience...
We asked Elise Marchant, Cybersecurity & Curriculum Development Analyst at the Carolina Cyber Center, about the importance of curiosity in cybersecurity and her own journey to get where she is today. Here's what she told us: In high school, every subject I took...
The cybersecurity industry needs an overhaul. Cybersecurity itself is often avoided and misunderstood, because, to put it frankly, we pretend that cybersecurity is a technological problem instead of a people problem. We need to see and understand people in order to...