Take a chance on someone….this week. 23 years ago, this week, someone took a chance on me, offering me my first professional job on a help desk, supporting UNIX and… Read More »Take a chance on someone….this week.

At the end of 2019, I met in Boston with global IT and Security leaders to reflect on the year and develop strategic guidance for 2020. Here’s a look into… Read More »Commencing A New Decade: 2020 Predictions

In January 2019, I had the honor of joining industry colleagues in an open webcast discussion on Cybersecurity predictions for 2019. Vito Sardanopoli, Gary Hayslip, CISSP, Scott King With the ever-changing threat environment… Read More »What Does 2019 Have In Store for Cybersecurity: A CISO’s Perspective

This month marks the completion of my twenty-second professional year in the technology industry. From days of system/network/IT work, in the worlds of AS400, UNIX, Novell, Windows NT, and Domino;… Read More »Reflection after Twenty Two Years

A bunch of industry friends and colleagues were asked to provide security predictions for 2019. Here’s what we each had to say: Excerpt from Rapid7 Blog: https://blog.rapid7.com/2019/01/02/facing-the-future-rapid7s-2019-security-predictions/ Happy New Year!… Read More »Facing the Future: Rapid7’s 2019 Security Predictions

Repost from: Veracode blog The news regarding the NSA and its British counterpart discussed how the Angry Birds app was targeted as a means to collect personal information about app… Read More »How Angry Is That Bird?

Repost from: MITRE Cybersecurity Mobile device security still tops the list of IT security concerns. In this post, we interview Shawn Valle about his 2-day training class, Introduction to Android… Read More »Cyber Training: Introduction to Android Forensics & Security Testing

Here’s a report from the first publicly released security audit of an iPad app using the iMAS developed open-source security libraries. This report shows that securing an iOS app isn’t… Read More »hReader iOS Mobile Application Security Audit

Now Available! iMAS – iOS Mobile Application Security January 2013 iMAS is a secure iOS application framework research project focused on reducing iOS application vulnerabilities and information loss. Now Available… Read More »iMAS – iOS Mobile Application Security

This is the publicly released slide deck that accompanies a 1-hour webinar that briefed the security (and anti-security) techniques of the Android operating system and applications. I developed a course,… Read More »Android Forensics & Security Testing