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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...

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...

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,...

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Active Cyber™ Explores the Future Landscape of Cyber and AI – Part 1

April 18, 2024 It is evident over the last few years that central national governments are applying tighter controls on the security of software and hardware products – from labels for...

Active Cyber™ Explores the Future Landscape of Cyber and AI – Part 2

April 18, 2024 This is the second part of a two part series. You can find the first part of this feature at this link. It is evident over the...

Learn How Advances in Cybersecurity Metrics Research Moves Holistic Approach for Cyber Defenses Forward in This Active Cyber™ Interview

For several years I have been honored to be a guest at the annual Forum on Financial Information Systems and Cybersecurity: A Public Policy Perspective organized at the University of...

Active Cyber Crosswalks EO 14028

In my last article on the EO 14028 I mentioned that I thought there were several parallels between what the EO was calling out and some of the concepts and...

What Roles Do Provenance and Reputation Play in “Authentic-By-Design” Approaches to Digital Content?

People make decisions every day that involve risk and uncertainty. Generally, we reconcile a variety of decision models using risk criteria often provided by organizational policies and/or guided by a...

Authenticity-by-Design: Ensuring the Authenticity of Content and Identity

Current Security Trends Reveal Difficulties in Assuring Authenticity Recently I was thinking about some of the major security challenges and problems of 2020 and going forward into 2021 like the...