Erin OMalley

According to a survey of 2,600 IT professionals conducted by security awareness training firm KnowBe4, only 38 percent of large companies use multi-factor authentication...

A few weekends ago, my dog bit me. In his defense, it was dark and I had tackled him unexpectedly to stop him from...

"The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind." – Fred Bear

“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet …” When Rudyard Kipling wrote that opening line to “The...

People are creatures of habit. If we learn something one way, we’re prone to stick to it. Less in a “my way or the...

Dear, New Year,My, how time flies. I can’t believe you’re already here, spurring me to make resolutions –presuming I have room to improve. 

Detecting Compromises Requires Monitoring a Series of Activities Over TimeIn the wee hours of April 15, 1912, the unthinkable happened to the unsinkable. The...

East Coast summer nights of my childhood were thick with humidity, fireflies and unfortunately, merciless mosquitoes and biting midges. So, when a West Coast...

Help Security Tools and Teams See What Matters

The More Pervasive Transparency is Into the Network, the Better the Chances of Early DetectionWhether you’ve been hacked already or not, your chances of...

Ah, RSAC 2017. Into the bowels of Moscone, I dove. Submerged in a calliopean frenzy of schwag hawkers and “where the world talks security”...

Perhaps I should have been born the Queen of Dragons. Or, at the very least, in another era. When quills were used to correspond,...

Thirty-some-odd years ago, my older brother wrote a “book” entitled The Christmas That Was Coal. It begins with a tale of a boy who’d...

What’s worse than having to cook a Thanksgiving turkey? How about being forced to relegate the poor bird—or pieces of it—to a crock pot...

Acrid gasoline fumes filled the rundown barn as a chainsaw revved too close for comfort. Hot breath brushed my ear with a taunting echo,...

In 1985, F. Murray Abraham won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his masterful performance as the cynical Salieri in the movie Amadeus. I...

A simple question that led to a SIEM-ple solution. Well, maybe not so simple.

Hunkered down in a hospital cafeteria booth, a hoodied ELVIRA, mid-20s, slim, but not athletic, hovers over a laptop, appears agitated as her fingers...