Benchmarking Machine Learning Models for IoT Malware Detection under Data Scarcity and Drift

The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things IoT in domains such as smart cities, transportation, and industrial systems has heightened the urgency of addressing their security vulnerabilities. IoT devices often operate under limited computational resources, lack robust physical safeguards, and...

MalGEN: a Generative Agent Framework for Modeling Malicious Software in Cybersecurity

The dual use nature of Large Language Models LLMs presents a growing challenge in cybersecurity. While LLM enhances automation and reasoning for defenders, they also introduce new risks, particularly their potential to be misused for generating evasive, AI crafted malware. Despite this emerging...

The psychology of social engineering—the “soft” side of cybercrime

Forty-eight percent of people will exchange their password for a piece of chocolate,1 91 percent of cyberattacks begin with a simple phish,2 and two out of three people have experienced a tech support scam in the past 12 months.3 What do all of these have in common? They make use of social...

How to Do More with Less — a CISO’s Perspective

I’ve learned a ton of lessons over my years in the InfoSec world. I’ve made a lot of the right calls, but also a bunch of wrong ones. One of the lessons I have learned is how to operate in an environment of scarcity. This lesson started long before my career did. Growing up, I was the child of a...

The Great $50M African IP Address Heist

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly...

Lessons from a CISO: 15 Ways to Do More with Less

This post originally appeared in Carbon Black's User Exchange Community. I’ve learned a ton of lessons over my years in the InfoSec world. I’ve made a lot of the right calls, but also a bunch of wrong ones. One of the lessons I have learned is how to operate in an environment of scarcity. This...