AI and Cybersecurity Awareness Podcast - Cyber Risk Leaders Tell All How will AI change the strategies of cybersecurity? Where will we see the first big impacts of attackers using AI? Watch the Cyber Risk Leaders podcast... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu2EgD-cmc4 Shamane Tan and Carmen Marsh were wonderful hosts. I had a fantastic time talking about AI and cybersecurity in the Cyber Risk Leaders podcast. Additionally, Jonathan Hiroshi Rossi explains the success of…
Curiosity Labs Opens Free Test-Track for Autonomous Vehicle Innovation It is always nice to see projects that are open and free to use, to advance technology in secure, private, and safe ways. Curiosity Labs provides startups and established companies a no-cost real-world testing infrastructure to innovate smart city and transportation technologies. https://www.curiositylabptc.com/ When autonomous transportation companies get past the first stage of testing, typically on a…
Expert Panel Discusses Cybersecurity in the New Normal Watch panelists Chris Roberts, G. Mark Hardy, and Matthew Rosenquist at VShield 2020 I had the honor to be on a distinguished panel with the incredibly knowledgeable G. Mark Hardy and the infamous white-hat hacker Chris Roberts. We discussed the evolution of cyber resilience, agility, and innovation in these troubling times. https://youtu.be/YBHgKzJJhqw Gokhan Say, the organizer of VShield 2020, facilitated a great list…
Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on COVID-19 Business Impact Leadership requires dealing with ambiguous situations. The ability to adapt to unforeseen crisis events is a crucial skill for cybersecurity and strategy professionals. Nobody saw Covid-19 coming a year ago, yet as it has swept across the globe it has impacted the world economy, disrupted longstanding business operations, and affected the everyday behaviors of people across the globe. Thought…
Intel Designs Chips to Protect from ROP Attacks Intel comes late to the game but will be delivering an embedded defense for Return Oriented Programming (ROP) types of cyber hacks. I first blogged about this back in Sept of 2016. Yes, almost four years have passed and I had hoped it would see the light of day much earlier. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-kill-rop-cyberattacks-matthew-rosenquist/…
Killer Drones to be Available on the Global Arms Markets Turkey may be the first customer for the Kargu series of weaponized suicide drones specifically developed for military use. These semi-autonomous devices have been in development since 2017 and will eventually be upgraded to operate collectively as an autonomous swarm to conduct mass synchronized attacks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqv9yaPLhEk This situation has been building for some time and I have been ringing…
Profiling White-Hat Vulnerability Researchers Bugcrowd has released some interesting survey data that provides insights into the white-hat vulnerability researcher community. Of note, most researchers were male (94%) and make less than $25k per year finding vulnerabilities. A vast majority were motivated by contributing to the well-being of others (93%), while only 19% focused on financial rewards. I have been a longstanding advocate of formal bug bounty programs. They have…
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