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Six Lessons For Your Organization From the SolarWinds Affair

The major current cybersecurity story involves a popular SolarWinds network managing software package, Orion. A sophisticated actor, with the signatures of a nation state, infiltrated Orion in a software update. Once inside,...more

Crime Does Pay: Business Email Compromise, Organization Vulnerability, and How Hackers Attacked the Wisconsin Republican Party

We have previously written about “phishing.” Phishing involves using social pressure  to trick the recipient to send sensitive information,  network control, or credentials, to hackers posing as authorized users....more

12 Attorneys General Sue for 2015 Breach in First Case of Its Kind

North Carolina joined Attorneys General from a dozen states in suing Indiana based Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) and affiliates. The complaint alleges that the companies failed to undertake reasonable measures to...more

The Art of (Cyber) War, Or How A Little Known Policy Exclusion Can Nullify Your Insurance Coverage

In June 2017, the NotPetya virus crippled many large companies including Merck and Mondelez (the manufacturer of Nabisco, Cadbury, and Toblerone). The aggregated losses, including property damage, operational disruptions, and...more

CyberSecurity Concerns - Hackers, The Seventh Fleet And Human Error

When the USS John S. McCain collided with the tanker Alnic MC near Singapore, it was the third such collision this summer. The ship sustained damage at the waterline, flooding a crew sleeping area. Such incidents are...more

Why The Election Can’t Be Hacked: Internet Of Things Edition.

In our consulting days, a former boss – a retired Army Colonel – enjoyed sharing his Cold War recommendation for protecting sensitive documents from the KGB: fill up a fleet of tractor-trailers with every U.S. government...more

Will GOP Endorsement of ‘Hack Back’ Make Cyberspace Safe Again?

Amidst the balloons and excitement (and smoke machines and procedural kerfuffles) at the GOP Convention in Cleveland, one provision in the party platform has caught the eye of cyber experts. For the first time, an American...more

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