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...

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...

Learn About SBOMs In This Active Cyber™ Interview with Dr. Jean Camp of Indiana University

April 2, 2024 Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) have been a hot ticket even before they were listed as a key initiative for secure software development practices in the National...

Learn About the Evolution of Issues Involving Bug Bounty Programs in This Active Cyber™ Interview with Dr. Rahul Telang

February 29, 2024 One cybersecurity area that I tend to spotlight involves vulnerability management programs.  From vulnerability discovery, disclosure, sharing, prioritization, and remediation, there are many different types of tools,...