CryptoHarlem, Teaching Encryption →

June 12, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Information Security, Education, Teaching, Security Education, Security Economics, Security Innovation, Security Leadership

'“You can’t buy a bag of chips in Harlem without being surveilled,” Mitchell said. CryptoHarlem has been teaching the community how to use encryption and other methods to prevent their digital activities from being surveilled and used against them. “People say this is the next frontier of civil rights,” Mitchell said.' from the Motherboard post via YouTube

AWS GuardDuty: Human Security Employment Will Become Moot →

November 30, 2017 by Marc Handelman in Information Security Jobs, Cybersecurity Jobs, SecDevOpps Jobs, Intelligence, Intelligence Sharing, Information Security, Cybersecurity, Analytics, Security Economics, Security Architecture, Security, Security Automation

The apparent beginning of the end for certain information and cyber security employment categories: Behold the newly minted Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) AWS GuardDuty... H/T via the inimitable Trey Blalock of Firewall Consultants and Verification Labs.

Malus Domestica Nummus →

July 10, 2017 by Marc Handelman in Economics, Security Economics, Communication Security, Application Security, Operating System Security

Vice's Motherboard scribe Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai regales us (on a Monday, no less), of the tale of monetary gains in the world of high-end Apple Inc. (NasdaqGS: AAPL) iPhone bugs. In this case, where, in fact, the real money resides. Today's Must Read.