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Trust, but verify. Ronald Reagan was famous for saying this when dealing with the Russians in the 1980s during the Cold War. It’s probably a reasonable mantra when you’re talking about nuclear arms and the fate of the world, but it has other applications. In fact, did you know that “trust, but verify” is actually a Russian proverb? “Doveryai no proveryai” is better in Russian because it rhymes, and it was taught to Reagan by his adviser on Russian affairs in preparation for talks with Gorbachev....

As we near the halfway point of 2022, cybersecurity remains a major issue. That, of course, is not new, nor is it surprising. The thing about security threats, though, is that even old news is still news — and “old” doesn’t diminish the impact of security threats.Russia’s war on Ukraine has created an increased need for awareness, even if the threat from Russia itself is nothing new (in its 2021 Digital Defense Report, Microsoft observed 58% of all cyberattacks from nation-states came from Russi...

The other day while driving around town, I looked at my phone and noticed a new little icon in the upper right-hand corner. “What’s UW?” I asked my husband, who shrugged. So of course, I Googled and discovered it stood for Ultra Wideband, and was the name Verizon was giving its deployment of the C-band network (Verizon also wraps its mmWave services into that designation, but this piece focuses on C-band). “Oh,” I said, “it’s that thing that’s been in the news about the airlines.” Here’s what I...

There is no such thing as zero risk when it comes to security, no matter what size your organization is or what industry it operates in. As cybercriminals get more sophisticated and threats evolve, it’s essential to keep your organization secure with the most current cybersecurity best practices. One of those best practices to have evolved over the last year is zero trust, which means limiting access to a network by implementing a “defense in depth” strategy that consists of multiple layers of p...

I’ve been a remote worker for 13 years. I left my office in April 2007 and never looked back. You might even call me a pioneer — I was the first in my business unit to strike out into the great unknown. To make it happen, we combined existing best practices of the time (VPNs, a VoIP phone) with some creativity – for example, inventing procedures for magazine layout and editing, which was at the time still a very hardcopy-based process — that I still use to this day. So my point is, I’m good at th...

There is one universal truth about cybersecurity: all the preparation, resources and infrastructure in the world won’t make a single bit of difference if the people in the organization aren’t aware, alert and on guard against threats.A recent article I read in The Verge hammered that message home. “How an International Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases Into $100 Million” is a long but fascinating read — if you’ve got some time on an airplane or over the weekend, I highly recommend it....