It is my honor to be in this issue of The Cyber Express, discussing the importance of knowing your cyber adversaries, how good leadership is crucial to success, and the ways AI will change cybersecurity forever!
I made the cover with Cathy Pedrayes, who discusses good cybersecurity practices for everyone, and Dr. Sheeba Armoogum, an expert on cyberpsychology who connects behaviors to tech security!

Free Download https://thecyberexpress.com/critical-infrastructure-and-cybersecurity-challenges/

Frustration Trying to Opt-Out After the National Public Data Breach!
The National Public Data breach has been a nightmare, exposing names, addresses, birthdates, emails, phone numbers, and Social Security Numbers of countless individuals—including mine.

Check out my full story: https://www.bulbapp.io/p/e60288a7-4f18-4ec0-9a3b-3c4334a1ccda/frustration-trying-to-opt-out-after-the-national-public-data-breach

I’m thrilled to be a part of the ManageEngine User Conference in San Diego CA on Sept 19th & 20th. I'm speaking in the IT Security track, discussing the top threats to sustainable cybersecurity!

I am really looking forward to an insightful and engaging discussion with all of you! See you all soon!

Registration: https://events.manageengine.com/san-diego-userconf-2024#/?day=1&lang=en

Did you know that over 100 million AT&T customers had their data breached? Check out my latest post and video explaining what you need to know and what we all need AT&T to do, to secure customer data!

https://www.bulbapp.io/p/7573c365-5b11-453c-bc9e-b1c98822bdb4/att-data-breach-understanding-the-fallout

How many are seeing the Blue Screen of Death today?

I am not too surprised that CrowdStrike customers are quiet-quitting and looking at other options. CrowdStrike refuses to acknowledge the root cause of their recent massive outage and aren't planning on fixing it.

Instead, they plan on boosting the error handling controls that reside on their clients machines, but not thoroughly testing all code and instructions before they push to customers.

That keeps a flawed model of using customers environments as their test network. Not a good practice.

Join me at the ISACA GRC Conference in Austin TX, Aug 12th-14th!

Register for the conference here: https://www.isaca.org/training-and-events/conferences/grc-conference

Conveying the risks and progress for a cybersecurity program to executives is difficult.  Over the years, I have explored countless ways to quickly and effectively distill the complexities of cyber risk into a simple graphic that informs management teams so the best decisions can be made. 

Did anyone notice that the CrowdStrike outage today reportedly only effected Microsoft Windows 10 machines? What decisions were made that left these machines so vulnerable to an update from a 3rd party software company, that it caused widespread Blue Screens of Deaths (BSOD) to appear across the globe?

Let's be clear, the root cause is with CrowdStrike, but Microsoft did have a hand in this game. They have the power to limit the impacts of 3rd party software that is misbehaving.