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Cybersecurity Burnout: Mental Health Suffers from Unrelenting Attacks

By Dick Weisinger

A job in cybersecurity offers one of the top paychecks in IT. But the flip side of the job is that it can be incredibly demanding, stressful, and a job where a significant number of people suffer burnout. A study

Cloud Security: Offers Better Security Controls than On-Premise but Comes with Unique Challenges

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud security beats on-premise security practices every time. Except when it doesn’t. Cloud security has managed to turn around a reputation of high risk and poor security into one of puncture-proof security designed and implemented by security experts whose full-time

Security: You can Fight Breaches with AI, Analytics, and Encryption, but there are no Guarantees

By Dick Weisinger

Increased remote work has been cited as a major reason why costs related to data breaches are rising. The average data breach for an enterprise now comes with a price tag of $4.24 million, according to a Ponemon/IBM study. When

Malware: Hackers Begin to Use More Modern Software Languages to Build Exploits

By Dick Weisinger

Software developers write code, while malware hackers specifically write code that can exploit vulnerabilities of of existing software or networks. Hackers generally use the same tools and techniques to write code that are used by ordinary programmers. Exploits have long

Security: It Isn’t Only Software — Hardware Can Be Vulnerable Too

By Dick Weisinger

Rowhammer is a vulnerability in lower end DRAM memory chips that can be used by hackers to exploit computers. The memory chip is attacked by forcing the same small piece of data to be read over and over. That small