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Cybersecurity Anarchy: Using Disconnected Management to Protect your Systems “Anarchy: The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.” Wiktionary Typically, if you take down a leader, then everyone else will run. But, what if...

“Almost 70 percent of global business operates, at least partly, in the cloud.”  Cloud Security Alliance 2017 Report When facing a decision on whether or not to move to a public, private or hybrid cloud system, companies have to determine how much public...

There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. ~ Robert Mueller, Director at the FBI Despite spending over $170B last year, companies’ cybersecurity efforts are failing. Big Providers simply can't keep up with...

How To Succeed In IoT It seems as if almost every article about IoT these days describes how insecure companies feel about connected devices.  Just today, yet another article was published that focused on governments' insecurity. For IoT providers, there...

Nobody Believes The latest IoT attack, called Z-Wave, impacts over 100 MILLION devices.  Popular routers were also just discovered to have a wide-open avenue of attack.  While devices are getter smarter and IoT proliferates, the reality is that nobody...

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong An article came out today that stated that email security does not work and cannot be easily fixed. The problem with this article is that email should NEVER try to secure itself - SMTP was never meant for complete security. ...

Fun In Canada I was recently on a trip in Northern Canada - you know the place where there is no cell phone reception and you can purchase 1 MB of Internet...weekly...  Given the exchange rates and my awesome credit card, I just took my credit card with...

Horror Or Opportunity? When we first started working on Bear, we spent significant time attempting to overcome one of the largest challenges facing the connected device world - how do we protect all of those open and exploited devices on the market? ...

Setting The Stage In the past few days, the two largest DDoS attacks ever were recorded and both leveraged unprotected corporate servers.  The Dyn (Marai) attacks leveraged unprotected corporate IoT devices... Most companies feel that a large percentage of...

What To Do? I recently read that Xiaomi is coming out with high-end phones in the U.S. at a fraction of the cost of Apple and Samsung.  While these phones have proven their worth overseas, in the U.S. there is a ton of opposition to using these devices. Of...

Cookies Are Now Not Allowed If you unaware, tracking cookies on user computers have been growing more and more obsolete due to active antivirus software.  In fact, some estimates reveal that up to 40% of all online traffic goes unreported due to cookie...

The Large Industrial World There is very large critical infrastructure that is controlled by Industrial control systems (ICS) and this world has never been more vulnerable to attack.  The security solutions that can solve these massive issues are being...

Disparity I have always been a huge fan of SAS and their approach to R&D and acquisitions.  First, they spend a lot on new technologies in order to gain intelligent entrance into new markets.  They do not acquire new markets and then try to figure...

Investors Need To Read This No this is not a gambit to raise money (yes we are raising but that is beside the point!).  If you are an investor in any tech company (or almost any company at all these days), you need to pay attention to the new GDPR laws the...

This Is Why Sales Stink As IoT companies continue to innovate and dazzle techies with unbelievable new features, one thing is not evolving - sales. The problem is that consumers are deathly afraid of losing what little privacy they have left. With local...

You Are Not Ready There are tons of articles talking about how most companies are not prepared for the GDPR enforcement.  Many companies are just not taking this seriously or not understanding how much work there is to do... That is understandable and,...

First The Attack In the news today, a new type of botnet has figured out how to spread to connected devices in a peer-to-peer manner.  This means that gaining access anywhere on a network will rapidly compromise the entire system.  This is a huge issue for...

Big Potential...Flat Sales We have all heard about the powerful future of consumer connected devices - billions of devices catering to our every need.  Each year is going to be The Year when adoption skyrockets and we leap forward as a population. So what...