If you've ever had the "pleasure" of enduring one of my many rants—ahem, I mean highly professional presentations—on Information Security, you've likely seen that moment where I phase into another dimension babbling about the desperate need to slap a suit and tie on my beloved cybersecurity industry. Some refer to it as professionalizing the industry.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a concept confined to science fiction novels or Hollywood movies.
How the software giant who originally touted the Start Menu as “the place you start” with great smugness seems to get this wrong over and over is a real mystery. Have they run out of ideas at Redmond or could it be they really do hate a good start menu?
There is a Windows setting that if unchecked could expose corporate RDP, even if your firewall is blocking all 3389 ports. Not only could numerous RDP ports be exposed, they will be invisible to your Cybersecurity perimeter protections.
Based on Office 365 proliferations and its Optimize category requirement; O365 may just be the next-best hacker playground. Imagine knowing that by exploiting one cloud location you may have a much lower bar (or none at all) accessing many corporations.
FUD is Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. A tactic well played in the early days of Information Security. I never liked it because… well you know that Boy Who Cried Wolf story, right? It appears to me that FUD is making a strong comeback. This time instead of being used to help bolster InfoSec budgets or sell a product, it is being used to shape political opinion.