Despite its many blessings, let’s call IoT what it is: The Internet of Threats. Most of the current 15M IoT devices are completely open to cyber criminals because they constitute a greatly expanded and largely unprotected attack surface. According to McKinsey, almost 50 percent of CXOs with IoT investments admit…

Our Cisco colleague my great friend Suzanne Calley, so beautiful she was, died on what was a lovely Fall day in Washington, D.C. Or more exactly in the Pentagon. Dead center. No one ever could imagine that James Taylor’s beautifully haunting ballad Fire and Rain could echo so darkly to…

With easy access to cloud environments, AI counterattacks are relatively easy to develop. We need to focus: sophisticated Adversarial AI will be our reality going forward. We may never have enough trained cyber professionals to fill the staffing needs of organizations, but thankfully we are leveraging great AI to supplement…

Introduction It makes no sense to have 775,000 open cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. while cybercrime’s cost races from $7 trillion currently to $10.5 trillion in the next three years. Bringing as many bodies as possible to the fight is a positive social aim and a survival imperative. With such a…

It’s not just the “right” thing. It’s not just good to have diversity and inclusion. It’s about survival. There are over 3.5 million jobs open globally in cybersecurity. No doubt there’s a real reason to fight for diversity in cybersecurity. Let’s call it cyberversity. Why cyberversity is vital? 1. Defender’s Dilemma and the Real Numbers With cybersecurity…

“If all we’re doing is treating COVID like a Sand Hill pitch, then we will fail” — a noted Silicon Valley pitch artist. While the country is opening up again, there is no doubt that if we don’t commit to massive contact tracing and COVID-19 antibody testing, the coronavirus will raise its head again now or in the next flu season with more deaths. We have tested, on a per capita basis, fewer citizens than 11 other countries, including Great Britain. And contact tracing is minimal in all the states that want to open immediately. Yet, according to all the experts in this thing called science and pandemics, it is necessary to stamp out more deaths now and when this pandemic revives itself in November.

Fred Lopez, a Santa Clara, California resident and tech executive, says that this school semester has been “an unmitigated disaster” for his kids even though two are in private colleges, and one is at a high-end private middle school. “They view online learning as boring, in addition to missing all the social interactions that made school fun. It’s easy to slip away to do anything more interesting than virtual schooling.”

Whether it’s about Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing, or cumulus clouds and butterfly migration, I write because I love it. There’s also a need for good content and a rabid fixation on research all the time including in the middle of a pandemic quarantine…

Be real! There’s hardly a cyberattack you haven’t faced. It’s exhausting, but you have a great track record. But face it. It’s more than an uphill fight! Success is only limited most of the time. The pace is brutal. And getting more brutal every quarter. More than 70% of global…