by Paul Rosenzweig | Jan 24, 2024 | Cybersecurity, National Security
The rudimentary hack suggests a significant impact from new SEC disclosure rules and continued impunity for foreign hackers. Last Friday after market close, Microsoft submitted an 8-K filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Feb 5, 2023 | Cybersecurity, National Security
Standards are many, and they have value. You know that. We’ll talk more about their definition and variety in just a moment, but we begin this discussion in an engineering frame of mind: problem statement first, solution second. The general problem…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Apr 3, 2022 | Cybersecurity, National Security
NATSEC OFFICIALS BACK APPLE — Nearly two dozen former national security officials made a familiar argument in an amicus brief filed late last week in the ongoing antitrust battle between Epic Games and Apple: allowing iPhone owners to download mobile…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Jan 19, 2022 | Artificial intelligence, Cybersecurity, Homeland Security, National Security
Few know it, but the great songwriter Kenny Rogers also had a lot to teach the world about cybersecurity. No. Seriously. His classic song, “The Gambler,” is not just a story about wagering, it can be read as a parable about cybersecurity and, in…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Jan 12, 2022 | Cybersecurity, Homeland Security, National Security
The 20th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Homeland Security looms in early 2023. What should the next Quadrennial Homeland Security Review study? The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America passed in Sept. 2021. The…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Sep 30, 2021 | Cybersecurity, National Security
Monoculture risk is manageable for most systems, but that isn’t the case for government systems. For these systems, monoculture vulnerability is a national security risk. Nature, they say, abhors a vacuum. It also abhors a monoculture. That’s because…
