Wade Williamson

 Security Teams Need to be Recognized as the Even Keel that Stays the Course Even When the Rest of the Organization Gets Distracted. 

Early in the 20th century, the pioneers of psychology, Sigmund Freud and Pierre Janet introduced the revolutionary concept of an “unconscious” or “subconscious” mind....

It turned out to be a tricky month for security admins to take that long-awaited summer vacation because July was one of the busiest...

Enterprise Security Teams Must Think More About How to Reduce Big Data Into Real-time Answers

As attackers have become better at evading traditional signatures and malware sandboxes, security teams are increasingly turning to behavior-based detection models to find the...

If you work in information security, the odds are high that you spend a significant amount of time battling ransomware. In a previous article,...

Lateral Movement Gives Attackers Additional Points of Control in a Compromised Network

Data Science and Machine Learning Can Help Enterprises Keep Pace with Faster and More Automated Cyber Threats

With RSA Conference on the horizon, odds are that if you make it to the exhibit floor, you will hear a lot about data...

Information security is one of those big ideas that affects us at all levels, whether as individuals, businesses, nations, and even international relations. In...

Threat intelligence feeds have become a major component of many organizations’ cybersecurity diet. A wide variety of security vendors offer up an equally wide...

2015 has been an eventful year in the world of malware, and few threats have risen more dramatically than ransomware. Unlike other types of...

Over the years, intrusion detection systems (IDS) have fallen off the radar for most security organizations. They seem about as relevant to today as pagers....

IT security is renowned for being in a state of constant evolution. New threats and attack strategies pop up constantly, and security vendors offer...

Anyone who reads the news has probably sensed that breaches and hacking are on the rise. Breaches are constantly in the news whether in...

It is no secret that data breaches and cyber attacks have become increasingly common in virtually every industry and sector. It is rare that...

Security Teams Must Always Keep the Entire Attack Lifecycle in Perspective 

In light of the seemingly endless parade of high-profile breaches, it’s easy to focus on external threats, while losing sight of insider threats.

Earlier this month, Penn State University was forced to completely disconnect a portion of its network from the Internet in response to multiple cyber...