The Terror Of Everyday Things

Reality Check We first need to start by admitting that one of our biggest issues is that we completely skipped over the proper definition of the “Internet of Things (IoT)”.  Many people hear “IoT” and they think of sensors and actuators and new...

Enhancing Acronyms

Can Bear Add Value To SIEMs? If you are not aware, there is a large and mature industry in the enterprise world called Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) and these vendors are very good at finding anomalous activity in large sets of data.  Most layer...

To IoT Or Not To IoT

Where Is The IoT? We keep hearing two disparate messages when it comes to the Internet of Things (IoT).  The marketing machines spin up these huge projections, typically in the trillions of dollars, about the impact of the IoT.  Then we at Bear try to find ANYBODY in...

What Is Good Enough In Healthcare

What Is Good Security? It is fascinating to read about the challenges facing places such at St. Jude’s when, from a technical security perspective, there is really nothing criminally negligent about St. Jude’s approach.  For those unaware, the core of the...