Aug 30, 2016

NewsCast for Tuesday August 30th, 2016

Clinic Won’t pay breach protection for victims

• http://www.zdnet.com/article/clinic-wont-pay-breach-protection-for-victims-ceo-says-it-would-be-death-of-company/
• Are companies required to pay for credit protection?  It is common, but is it required?
• Can a class action suit...

Aug 23, 2016

This week Michael and I chat with Jamison Utter of Infoblox on one of the more interesting topics at hand - the economy of ransomware. We talk through the sudden popularity of the attack vector, the way the underground "criminal enterprise" has scaled and grown and the future of being a bad guy.

If you have occasion to...

Aug 18, 2016

Quick note from Michael about the Straight Talk Framework & Program -- >

• Get your free copy at https://securitycatalyst.com/straight-talk-framework/
• Launched a new program last week… boy, did I learn a lot.
  • Mostly, it’s my failure to explain. I’m going to chronicle some of the lessons over the next few days and...

Aug 10, 2016

In this episode we chat with Steve Christey Coley currently the Principal Information Security Engineer over at MITRE Corp. In this episode we talk through our industry's obsession with vulnerabilities, dive headlong into the thorny issue of security research, talk through the various issues with disclosure and...

Aug 6, 2016

Quick note from Michael about the Straight Talk Framework -- >

• I’ve separated the framework from the programs; the framework is free and available for download from my website. More on the way!
• To support both the framework and the programs, I’ve just finished a video that introduces the 5 questions; I have an...