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19Feb

Mr. Robert Rahmer, Program Manager of IARPA’s CAUSE Program, Discusses Progress in Cyber Event Forecasting Research

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I have attended several conferences where researchers and practitioners describe some type of early warning system for cyber attacks. Some predictive systems involve the sharing of threat intelligence of attackers’ TTPs; others involve forecasting of cyber attacks based on data from network telescopes, honeypots, and automated intrusion detection / prevention systems; some use information from […]

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14Feb

Learn How Cybersecurity Dynamics Lays The Foundation For Advanced Cybersecurity Defenses In This Active Cyber Interview with Professor Shouhuai Xu of UTSA

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When I first conceived the idea for this web site, I wanted to express a holistic, systematic and dynamic approach to designing and operating a secure environment. I had some practical experience to go by and was following the trends in technology that I felt could make a difference in combatting cyber threats of all […]

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11Feb

Digital Forensics Pioneer Jim Christy Provides His Unique Insights In This Interview with Active Cyber™

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From working on the Hanover hackers’ case with Dr. Cliff Stoll as described in The Cuckoo’s Egg to re-exploring a nearly 50 year old cold case of the infamous hijacker – DB Cooper – and a lot in between, Jim Christy has been a leading pioneer in the field of digital forensics and computer crime […]

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4Feb

Cyber Risk Assessment Takes On An Actionable Approach In This Methodology by Dr. Charles Harry of UMD

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Coming up with an assessment of cyber risk that is meaningful and actionable tends to be a task where practitioners consistently come up short. You are often stuck with two extremes – one extreme saying simply that the sky is falling which doesn’t leave you much room for understanding your options or taking risk reduction […]

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23Jan

University of Maryland 15th Annual Forum Highlights Research At Intersection of Cyber, Business, and Public Policy

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I recently attended the Fifteenth Annual Forum on Financial Information Systems and Cybersecurity: A Public Policy Perspective at the University of Maryland. The forum was hosted by Professors Lawrence A. Gordon, Martin P. Loeb, and William Lucyshyn. You may remember the interview I did with Professor Gordon a while back on his collaboration with Professor […]

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2Jan

Learn How the Army Research Lab Is Paving the Way to a Virtual Reality-Based Security Operations Center In This Interview With ActiveCyber.net

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I remember reading a novel several years ago by Tom Clancy that featured virtual reality (VR) as part of the plot’s security operations center capabilities. I remember thinking how this will never happen in my lifetime and how Clancy was getting way ahead of himself. Then, recently I was able to attend a conference about […]

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5Dec

Learn How DARPA Is Leading Research In Developing Resilient and Cyber-Assured Embedded Systems In This Active Cyber Interview

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Finding the right security solution is often a difficult task, with many complex trade-offs to consider. Building a secure system is even more challenging as history has shown. Designing and building systems that are “tolerant of adversarial cyber actions,” as expressed by our interviewee below, seems a herculean task. So I was quite interested to learn […]

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27Nov

Dr. Ron Ross of NIST Discusses New Multi-dimensional Cyber Protection Strategy In This Interview with Active Cyber

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One of the issues I have with standards is that they often take on a life of their own – different from what their authors intended – and, eventually become stale checklists that rob energy and innovation from operations and products. So it is refreshing to see how the National Institute of Standards and Technology […]

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20Nov

Active Cyber Interviews Maryam Rahmani of Global Cyber Alliance – Learn About Free DMARC and DNS Security Offerings to Fight Internet Threats

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There are many “free” cybersecurity tools out there but it seems like there are just a handful that actually are having a positive effect on the global security issues of today. To offer two of these impacting tools like Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) is truly noteworthy, and they have the stats to prove their effectiveness. […]

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