By: Mackenzie Blaisdell While millions of viewers tuned in to watch the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Pyeongchang, something ominous was occurring behind the scenes. Similar to the extensive planning that the Olympians put into preparing for the Olympics, threat actors had conducted in-depth research and...
By: Mackenzie Blaisdell The Olympics have always set the stage for much more than just athletic competition. Millions of people worldwide tune in to The Games to be spectators of diplomacy, culture, drama, and sometimes even propaganda. What is relatively new to the show’s program,...
By: Joseph Salazar FAIR WARNING: SPORTS TALK AHEAD. Taken broadly, football is a game of force on force, attacker versus defender, offense verses defense. In many ways, the game of football is a battle, warfare on the gridiron, and as Sun Tzu said, "All...
Coauthored by: Carolyn Crandall and Mackenzie Blaisdell Mother Nature can make quite a mess with her natural disasters. They are often harsh, difficult to clean up, and force a community to rethink their defenses. Just like the countless natural disasters the world has witnessed over...
By: Carolyn Crandall On January 5th, 2018 the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released a draft report in response to President Trump’s May 11, 2017, Presidential Executive Order on Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and...
By: Carolyn Crandall The announcements on the hardware bugs dubbed Meltdown and Spectre, with particularly severe flaws for Intel and some ARM chips, has hit the news hard this week. Meltdown allows low privileged user programs such as database applications or JavaScript in web browsers...
By: Mackenzie Blaisdell In today’s world, client confidentiality goes beyond the customary non-disclosure regulations of attorney-client privileges; it comprises the cybersecurity measures a firm is willing to take to protect their client’s sensitive data, from basic confidential knowledge to major corporate trade secrets. Breaches within...
By: Carolyn Crandall 2017 was the year of unrelenting breaches. Unbelievable amounts of personal information were compromised, ransomware attacks reached into billions of dollars, and breach fines that cost companies millions. Not to be left out, threat actors also crossed ethical boundaries with attacks that...
By: Carolyn Crandall There is widespread industry discussion and debate about the current Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act (ACDC), introduced to Congress in March of 2017, that would allow companies the right to hack back after a “persistent unauthorized intrusion.” This bill has...
By: Carolyn Crandall When my kids were little, I used to read them “Pat the Bunny,” a “touch and feel” book where they could feel the fur of a rabbit (fake), or sandpaper that represented dad’s scratchy face in the morning. As we have learned...