I have been studying for the CompTIA Security+ exam for over three years. I started studying cyber security in mid-2018. Knowing very little in the field, I was recommended to take an online course on Cybrary.org. At the time, they were still teaching the version 401 test. …

TALKING GREAT-POWER COMPETITION IN THE HEART OF EMPIRES PAST — Dan Nexon, Duck of Minerva, 7/16/22 Great-Power Competition Is Bad for Democracy — Michael Brenes and Van Jackson, Foreign Affairs, 7/14/2022 Two very interesting articles on the latest international buzzword. Following the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the unofficial official…

There are many types of intelligence — from financial intelligence to threat intelligence to corporate intelligence to military intelligence to social intelligence — the list goes on and on. For each type, there are dozens if not hundreds of articles on how to incorporate intelligence into organizations. Yet there are…

The post-COVID workplace fascinates me. In my field, I have had to be in the office everyday since June 2021. There has only been a two-week span since where we went to a Mon-Wed-Fri or Tues-Thurs schedule. Outside of that one two-week span, we don’t have the capability to remote…

How War Impacts Cyber Insurance — Chris Hallenbeck, ThreatPost, 7/12/2021 Although this article leads itself to common sense, I thought it was an interesting look at attempts to deferring cyber risks from organizations. According to Hallenbeck, the CISO for the Americas at Tanium, the amount of companies filing for cyber…

Social Engineering Kill–Chain: Predicting, Minimizing & Disrupting Attack Verticals — Christina Lekati, Ahead Threat Intelligence Blog on Feedly, 6/2/2022 For years I have known what the Cyber Kill Chain is — the steps attackers take to case, infiltrate, and steal data from a victim. …

The 7 common traits among highly successful cybercriminals: Part I The 7 common traits among highly-successful cybercriminals: Part II Intel471 Blog, 6/22/2022 This is an awesome pair of articles. The folks at Intel471 have detailed commonalities of the rogues of the web — webrogues? — as a way to better…

The world’s biggest surveillance company you’ve never heard of — Zeyi Yang, MIT Technology Review, 6/22/2022 Very interesting article on the possibility of the United States placing Chinese-based surveillance company Hikvision on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) List. …

I have a lot of literary classics on my shelves. Too often, however, I get caught up in reading the latest and greatest in modern literature to take a step back and enjoy something timeless. So it was with great interest that I dove into two collections of Fyodor Dostoyevsky…