Critical Infrastructures are those systems and assets - whether Physical or Virtual – that are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.As ransomware attacks continue to grow, organizations need ..read more

Looking in the rear view mirror from the Spring of 2004, the InfoSec World Conference in Orlando FL was on the calendar.Our flight from Washington, DC provided just enough time to plan out the sequence of sessions and events to attend in order to explore any new innovations.At that point, we were now only in our first decade of our "Information Security" evolution."Before “The Cloud ..read more

What are three major questions that most CxO executives and Boards of Directors need to answer when confronting information security issues:Is your security policy enforced fairly, consistently and legally across the enterprise.Would our employees, contractors and partners know if a security violation was being committed?Would they know what to do about it if they did recognize a security ..read more

Wonder why some companies don't have a more proactive OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) operation inside their own institution, looking at and analyzing potential “Threat Intel” across their global domains?While there are very expensive services that can package up exactly what you are looking for, sometimes it just takes a little more time and the right “Sources."You could get a service at ..read more

It was the year 1997 and there was another client meeting at the headquarters of Navy Federal Credit Union in Vienna, Virginia.Traveling through Tysons Corner on Route 7, the Spring colors from Dogwoods were in full bloom. The Navy Federal HQ was tucked away in the woods just a short ride down Chain Bridge Road (123) past Westwood Country Club then a left onto Folin Lane.The IBM ..read more

CxO’s in corporate enterprises are ever more concerned about emergency preparedness and the continuity of their enterprises.Now that threats to government and business operations are becoming ever more prevalent, organizations must plan for every type of business disruption from hardware and communications failures, to natural disasters, to internal or external acts of terrorism.Being forced is ..read more

Since the beginning of time, weather has been unpredictable. So has man.When was the last time you witnessed the aftermath of a natural disaster?When was the last time you saw the devastation from the Fateh-110 family of short-range ballistic weapons?The continuous examples of risks to our world could generally be put into two major categories, 1) those we as humans can control and&nbsp ..read more

It was early February 1971 and three High School best friends consistently car pooled to do a little early morning “Country Roading”, in the white Pontiac LeMans on the way to school.This was just a circuitous route down tree lined roads and around vast farm lands in the Midwest USA.We were always set to arrive in the school parking lot, just in time to make it to our locker and then to 1st ..read more

What is volatility and how could this be an operational risk in your particular institution or organization? The threat of "Volatility" depends on what is being measured. The stock price. The return on capital. The key is that you want to reduce volatility in most cases. It scares some people. Long term investors, employees and customers. Volatility is the standard deviation of the change in ..read more

The 2024 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos Switzerland kicks off January 15-19. Are you traveling this weekend on your way to attend?The 54th event theme this year is “Rebuilding Trust”.On Jan 18 at 11:00 CET the session titled “Technology in a Turbulent World” will include CEO panelists from OpenAI, Salesforce, Accenture and Pfizer.Why?Flashback to Reston, Virginia ..read more