4 tips to make use of Wannacry in awareness programs
When security events make news, you can take advantage of the wake-up call — if you know what to do.
Stories by Ira Winkler
7 elements of a successful security awareness program
Action items for CSOs looking to bolster their security awareness programs.
What prevents breaches: process, technology or people? One answer is PC, and one is right.
Many experts say that people are more important than process in the IT security world. That is politically correct, as opposed to actually correct.
Security pros are their own worst enemy
Just when the world seems ready to listen to us, we give it a display of epic bickering.
Pokemon Go: What security awareness programs should be doing now
Pokemon Go represents a tremendous security threat. As with all tremendous threats, it can also be your greatest opportunity.
Behind every stupid user is a stupider security professional
Security professionals should look in the mirror, before declaring a user, “stupid”.
5 facts about Apple and the terrorist’s iPhone
The truth behind the hype and misunderstandings surrounding the case.
The threat of shoulder surfing should not be underestimated
Ira Winkler questions a recent column on the topic of shoulder surfing, also called visual hacking, and suggests that a better understanding of security awareness would go a long way.
Ira Winkler: The RSA Conference boycott is nonsense
The outrage is more about media hype, hypocrisy and grandstanding than firm principles.
Wikileaks causes 'need to know' pendulum to swing again
If you are in the security profession long enough, you realize that security policies are generally a pendulum that you have to live with. While the recent Wikileaks incident will cause information sharing within the Department of Defense and US Government as a whole to swing back the other way, you can bet that in a few years, it will swing back to wholesale information sharing again. Like many aspects of the world, security practices are--unfortunately--driven by the most recent events.