Maritime lawyers assemble!

Maritime cyber insurance has been playing catch-up with maritime cyber security for a while now. It was all pretty good until the availability of cheap VSAT meant that ships became constantly connected. Vessels were mostly not connected at sea, other than Fleet Broadband connections, rarely used...

The Hacking of Culture and the Creation of Socio-Technical Debt

Culture is increasingly mediated through algorithms. These algorithms have splintered the organization of culture, a result of states and tech companies vying for influence over mass audiences. One byproduct of this splintering is a shift from imperfect but broad cultural narratives to a...

Upcoming webinar: How a leading architecture firm approaches cybersecurity

How does a company navigate over 80 years of technical debt? Which tools do a security team of 5 rely on everyday? What threats are considered most dangerous? On March 28, 2024, Malwarebytes CEO, Marcin Kleczynski, and Payette Associates Director of Information Technology, Dan Gallivan, will answ...

This Week in Spring - November 14th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's November 14th, and you know what that means? NINE MORE DAYS until Spring Boot 3.2 drops on the day of the US holiday of Thanksgiving, no less! Some key features include: virtual threads initial CRaC support more...

Part III: Implementing Effective Cyber Security Metrics that Reduce Risk Realistically

We outlined some critical cybersecurity metrics in Part I of this three-part blog series. In the final blog post, we will delve into three crucial aspects outlined in Josh’s article: tactical metrics for operational teams, strategic metrics for leadership, and the metrics addressing the...

Microsoft Security tips for mitigating risk in mergers and acquisitions

Sixty-two percent of organizations that undertake mergers and acquisitions face significant cybersecurity risks or consider cyber risks their biggest concern post-acquisition.1 Threat actors that focus on corporate espionage often target the acquiring company, which we will refer to as the Parent...

Microsoft Security tips for mitigating risk in mergers and acquisitions

Sixty-two percent of organizations that undertake mergers and acquisitions face significant cybersecurity risks or consider cyber risks their biggest concern post-acquisition.1 Threat actors that focus on corporate espionage often target the acquiring company, which we will refer to as the Parent...

How Software Architects Can Manage Technical Debt in a Microservice Architecture

By Owais Sultan Most software architects wear two different hats - they act as software engineers and technical leaders. However, software… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Software Architects Can Manage Technical Debt in a Microservice Architecture...

The Future of Finserv Security: Cloud Expert and Former CISO Anthony Johnson Weighs In

In today's increasingly mobile, fast-paced world, it's no surprise that financial services finserv organizations have a massive bullseye on their backs. The amount of personal data they access daily makes them an attractive target for those with malicious intent. In fact, the average cost of a da...

Have You Considered Your Organization’s Technical Debt?

TL;DR Deal with your dirty laundry. Have you ever skipped doing your laundry and watched as that pile of dirty clothes kept growing, just waiting for you to get around to it? You’re busy, you’re tired and you keep saying you’ll get to it tomorrow. Then suddenly, you realize that it’s been three...

Considering Your Organization's Technical Debt

How many times have you had an alarm go off, or a customer issue arise from something you meant to fix, but “haven’t had the time”? How many times have you been working on something and thought, “wow, this would be so much easier if I had just …”?...

Churning Out Machine Learning Models: Handling Changes in Model Predictions

Introduction Machine learning ML is playing an increasingly important role in cyber security. Here at FireEye, we employ ML for a variety of tasks such as: antivirus, malicious PowerShell detection, and correlating threat actor behavior. While many people think that a data scientist’s job is...