The alarm jarred me awake at 3:30 AM. An inhumanly early hour for me (especially for a Sunday), but necessary to make to the airport in time for my flight. Despite the early hour, I leap out of bed, excited to start the day. Today is the Big Day. Today is the day I leave …
As a Security Architect, I spend most of my time thinking about cyber security. In fact most of the people I know in the I.T. industry must think about cyber security on some level every single day. They for the most part have at least a passing understanding of why cyber security is important …
At this years RSA conference, the NSA announced that they are going to be releasing their powerful reverse-engineering platform named Ghidra available to the world via Open Source. Ghidra is not a tool that can be used to hack devices. Rather, it is a powerful reverse-engineering tool that can reveal exactly what compiled software is …
Recently, a British company sued a former employee over the fact that the employee fell for a Spear Phishing attack aimed at their CEO, that resulted in her sending a nefarious actor almost $250K USD of the companies funds. You can read all the details here. This action represents a significant change in how cyber …
TO THE CLOUD! Like a battle cry, ringing across the I.T. landscape, environments large and small are rushing to move their systems to the cloud. It seems like a simple proposition. A no brainer, really. All you have to do is take your various systems that live in your brick-and-mortar data centers, and throw them …
John T. Scott 