Today we have a guest post by Melisa Marzett.
Predictive analytics becomes increasingly a more important tool for companies ready and willing to use all the data they collect in a better way. Machine learning might give an additional boost to a development of analytics, creating data resources that are more ...
Continue Reading →I am scheduled to speak at the Elevate for Success meeting of the I-94 West Chamber of Commerce, next Wednesday, December 19th, 8 am to 9:30 am. This free event is held at Rush Creek Golf Club, 7801 County Road 101 N, Maple Grove, Minnesota 55311. Click the link above to register.
Have you ever wondered why the state of cybersecurity is so screwed up? Why is it so easy for bad actors and cyber-criminals to hijack systems and steal information? Would you be surprised to learn the answer is because we designed it that way? Computers, networks, operating systems and software were designed to work together as easily as possible, and were inherently “trusted” by each other. In the beginning, most systems ...
In a not too distant future, you may be riding in an autonomous vehicle that is forced to decide between running over a pedestrian or a bicyclist. Or whether to crash into a tree or another automobile. It may make a decision you are not particularly happy with. These decisions will rely on “artificial intelligence” built into these cars. These decisions are being programmed right now by developers of autonomous vehicles. ...
This post is funny only from the standpoint of “it’s funny how things turn out” or “its funny how big things start in small places.” More of a history lesson – but please bear with me and read on.
From the Stanford University website:
“On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.This entry was posted in Research, Wordfence, WordPress Security on December 5, 2018
The Defiant Threat Intelligence team recently began tracking the behavior of an organized brute force attack campaign against WordPress sites. This campaign has created a botnet of infected WordPress websites to perform its attacks, which ...
Continue Reading →I recently started spending time in the Dark Web, learning how to use a VPN and the TOR browser to navigate the hidden services to be found there. I also have been presenting a “Tour of the Dark Web” to the public in a variety of business groups. I find the Dark Web to be a fascinating place, and so far the response from people attending my seminar indicates that I am not the only one. One of the problems ...
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As an information technology educator, and cybersecurity trainer, speaker and blogger, I am often asked how to get into a cybersecurity career, or how difficult is it to get into a cybersecurity career. Here’s what I can tell you.
You will almost in all cases need to start your cybersecurity career in a general information technology role, and work in that capacity for three ...
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A little blood, sweat, and tears, study, and practice, and amazingly enough you passed the exam and earned your certification. There used to be a time when a certification was good for life, but these days a certificate is usually valid for only three years. The good news is that you can maintain your certification with some additional effort on your part.
The theory behind ...
Continue Reading →I have several friends who are genealogists, but it was one of my cybersec pals, Mike Janes, that sent this to me. Back when I was a teen-ager at summer camp, there was a skit the counselors put on about the “Dover Family” – father Ben Dover, spouse Eileen Dover, the dog Roll Dover. (by the way, if you remember this skit and can contribute more names, please do, I can’t find it on Google. What? Impossible)
Here’s some new material ...
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