Cybersecurity, Why a Higher Risk Tolerance than COVID-19?

There are many  examples of high Cybersecurity risk tolerance – which show the executives not paying attention to Cybersecurity professionals until it is too late. Darkreading has another article on Cybersecurity burnout. The issue is the long hours many Security professionals have to perform and the general thankless jobs as they try to convince executives … Read more

Would be Nice if Everyone Took Cybersecurity Seriously

What if people took vaccines with  Inoculation rates of the cybersecurity industry?  So the inoculation rates of a typical vaccine was and is 90% – 95% and that is how most of the old diseases were actually eradicated. My point is that what if people treated Cybersecurity like they should we would have less people … Read more

Why is Cybersecurity so Difficult to Understand?

Not everyone understands all of  the complex pieces and the economic ramifications of them. What makes this  decision so difficult to require an owner to spend at least 3-4 hours a week on a topic which will not make any money, but will just help you keep running your business.  In fact this “expenditure” of … Read more

Keep An Eye On Google ‘Security’ Projects

There are quite a few Google projects of which some are focused on security(there are many more projects, but these are the ones that could be cybersecurity. The explanation which is in italics- i.e. copied from theGoogle project webpages): https://opensource.google.com/projects/ Abseil   Abseil  an open-source collection of library code.   also at https://abseil.io/ Abseil C++ code … Read more

Is Compliance Enough for Your Company?

If you accept credit cards you need PCI compliance If you have health data then you need HIPAA compliance. A financial company gets many pieces of compliance which depends on what types of financial instruments you sell. You may need other types of compliance. Unfortunately PCI compliance does not require a backup of your critical … Read more