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Federation has worked well on social media – users link their accounts together and use a single username and password to access. Federation has also worked for government employees – their Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards are accepted for many cross-agency uses. But even after significan…

With 5G comes a host of new innovation: Greater precision and improved reaction times in drones and autonomous vehicles, new wearable tech with additional features, advances and greater adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and smart city developments, and remote healthcare. 5G also ushers i…

It is not uncommon for cyber professionals to have a difficult time conveying to people unfamiliar with cybersecurity the ways in which to consider protection of their data. There are many similarities between cyber approaches to addressing cyber vulnerabilities and attacks that are similar to thos…

According to a study conducted by Ponemon Institute in 2017, 61% of SMBs stated that their companies have experienced a cyber attack in the past 12 months, and 54% of SMBs reported that they had privacy breaches involving customers, target customers and employee information. This should be a soberi…

NIST Special Publication 800-63B Digital Identity Guidelines, Authentication and Lifecycle Management includes choices of authenticators that may be used at various Authenticator Assurance Levels (AALs) for use by the US Federal Government.  Authenticators are used to authenticate a user to a resou…

Spectre and Meltdown are attacks on computing systems that exploit characteristics inherent to most modern computer processors. Specifically, Meltdown is recognized to affect Intel and ARM processors, while Spectre is known to affect Intel, AMD and ARM processors.

The Return of Coppersmith’s Attack (ROCA) is a recently discovered vulnerability in a cryptographic library used in some Infineon Technologies AG chips. It enables an attacker to practicably determine an RSA private key given an RSA public key. Quantum computers, while still in their infancy, will…

Quantum computing is a futuristic way of computing.  Presently in its infancy, the technology involves the use of qubits which are atomic sized memory units.  Qubits can hold multiple values simultaneously and enable efficiencies in parallel computations.  With a sufficient number of qubits working…

Today, information is being produced by and shared with billions of people and machines and around the world. Much of this environment is filled with information that owners are willing to share with others. But much proprietary and private information is not being so freely shared – and for good r…