Spotlight

Active Cyber™ Interviews Estefania Vergara-Cobos, Economist at the World Bank and author of the book “Cybersecurity Economics for Emerging Markets”

May 9, 2025 Early in 2024 I met Ms. Vergara-Cobos at a conference where we shared some information about our recent respective work activities. She disclosed to me about her...

George Barnes, Former NSA Deputy Director, Reflects On Cybersecurity Challenges With Active Cyber

February 19, 2025 At the beginning of each year, for the past 10 or more years, I am excited to get the invite from my friend Larry Gordon to make...

Active Cyber™ Interview On Collaborative OneTier/Vantiq Zero Trust Solution

October 23, 2024 I received a call a while back from my good friend, Jim Rice, who wanted to introduce me to a company with whom he had been collaborating...

Learn How New CISA Software Acquisition Guide Will Affect Your Software Supply Chain In This Exchange With ICT Task Force Members

August 21, 2024 CISA has been working hard over the last 6 years to turn the tide on the never-ending stream of zero days and vulnerable systems that continue to...

Active Cyber™ Interviews Ron Perez, Intel Corporation Chief Security Architect, on Confidential Computing

August 12, 2024 It seems that most of the emails, articles and webinar invites I receive lately have Gen AI and [in]security as part of the headlines. Also, I was...

Alison King, VP of Forescout Technologies, Talks About Government Cybersecurity Policy with Active Cyber™

July 19, 2024 I have been interested in network access control technology since my days working on trusted computing and high assurance platform initiatives for different government entities. And today,...

Learn How Ransomware Affects Government Agencies In This Active Cyber™ Interview with Jason Baker of GRIT

July 10, 2024 I like returning each year to the AFCEA Technet Cyber Conference as it always has a lively exhibit hall and interesting panels and discussions. It is also...

Learn How KDM Analytics Provides Automated and Continuous Risk Assessment For Complex Systems In This Active Cyber™ Interview

Learn How KDM Analytics Provides Automated and Continuous Risk Assessment For Complex Systems In This Active Cyber™ Interview

July 8, 2024 I remember making the case for automated and continuous risk assessment many years ago when the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) was first being drafted and put...

IARPA Issues Award for ReSCIND Program to SRI For Novel Network Defense Technology

Press Release – March 7, 2024 SRI chosen to deliver cyber-psychology-informed network defense technology for IARPA  The innovative program will be centered around the psychology of cyber attackers.   [March 7,...