Jon-Louis Heimerl

Big Data Means Exposing More Data to Internal Misuse or Accidental Exposure, and Exposing More Data to a Successful Attacker 

While it’s commonplace to share information online and via social media, we all want our information safe, and we want control over what we...

Context is Invaluable, and Lets you Understand What your Security Event and Alert Information Mean.

Adding Context Around Data Can Make a Huge Difference in How you Manage and Protect Information.Why is context important? Because without context, information is...

I saw a movie a while back in which a character was locked up in a prison, and he said something like, “I’m not...

Who will it be this week?

To Stay Ahead of New Threats, We Have to Keep Developing New Ways to Look at Security that We Haven't Considered.

In college, I took a required Computer Science class called “Systems Principles”. My professor started the class by listing out the seven key components...

We cannot be perfect. We can only be smart. We try to follow the rules and be as thorough as we can, and we...

I am a millionaire. Actually, I’m a multi-millionaire. Or rather I could be if I helped the honorable Mr. Nagumba get his money out...

We have been thinking about information security for thousands of years. But as the world continues to evolve, Information Security must evolve to keep up...

 Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house