Cyber Panel at Nashville Business Journal

A while back I participated in a Cyber panel with the Nashville Business Journal.

Read the article here.

July Threat Highlights

July was an interesting month from a threat landscape perspective.

We saw android security bulletins for RCE bugs as well as high-severity flaws, and the Jigsaw ransomware decrypted yet again. Perhaps the most dis-concerting is the newly reported use of Conficker in attacks against IoT devices.

InfoSec to Remote or Not? That is the question.

Lately, I've been hearing of more and more companies "reigning-in" their Cyber Security professionals. At first impression this may seem like a no-brainer. But may be more backlash against the casual and laze faire behavior of a small group of abusive remote workers than anything. This begs several questions:

1. Is it more efficient?

2. Are workers (especially of certain generations) more satisfied?

3. Does it provide companies access to better talent?

4. Do on-prem workers have the same access as remote SysAdmins in this de-perimeterized enterprise landscape?

5. Do today's modern collaboration tools enable all job functions of on-prem workers?

"Clients in this area don't grok telework.  They think it's evil." - Mark McCulough