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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Internet As A Pen Test

ForAllSecure

You have to show to me that you're using multi factor authentication that you're doing vulnerability scanning and mitigation that you're harming your niche. It's almost like we're doing a global global economics case study as to what happens and how it happens. you're aligning to a framework, whatever. These are becoming.

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ROUNDTABLE: Experts react to President Biden’s exec order in the aftermath of Colonial Pipeline hack

The Last Watchdog

While some of the measures stipulated in the order are considered table stakes like multi-factor authentication, the fact that the order exists will help to raise the collective security posture of products and services. Colonial pipeline is a really good case study for the whole critical infrastructure industry.

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Q&A: The troubling implications of normalizing encryption backdoors — for government use

The Last Watchdog

Should law enforcement and military officials have access to a digital backdoor enabling them to bypass any and all types of encryption that exist today? Machine to machine connection and communication needs to be authenticated to access systems, so this technology is where the rubber meets the road, with respect to this debate.