Is Attribution Really Necessary?

August 23, 2017.  At the AWS Cybersecurity Week conference, Sam Bisbee of threat stack spoke.  From the things he said, Mr. Bisbee appears to be a knowledgeable and experienced cybersecurity professional.  Among the things he said was, that the time and effort put into attribution is wasted.  Fixing the problem, isolating the infected devices, shutting…

Details of the April 29th NSA’s Eternal Blue Hack of IDT

August 23, 2017. At the AWS Security, Golan Ben-Oni, Senior Global CIO, spoke about the hack of IDT that was reported in the NY Times on June 22, 2017. Ben-Oni said, “Anybody big enough has AWS. IDT uses AWS. You can have secure operations in the cloud”. Then, as an example, Ben-Oni went into detail…

Infrastructure as Code and How It Helps Cloud Security

August 23, 2017. Throughout the AWS Security Week conference at the Amazon Loft in NYC, the suggestion of a good practice to “treat infrastructure as code”, was repeated often. What does that mean and how does it help securing your cloud or your security in the cloud? With cloud services, one does not physically build…

How to Launch and Defend Against Ransomware Attacks Against AWS VPCs

August 23, 2017. Sam Bisbee of threat stack gave a talk at the Amazon Loft NYC, where to reinforce the need to use MFA (multi-factor authentication) he discussed and analyzed a ransomware attack against an AWS (Amazon Web Services) user. AWS customers are given a VPC (virtual private cloud). Access to a customer’s VPC is…

Are Big Corporations Losing Their Privacy In This Big Data Age?

Or, How To Not Hire The Best Tech People Are corporations as subject to a lack of privacy as individuals in our age global digital openness? You bet they are! In a recent incident, this was brought very much to my attention. I attend many tech meetups. Being passionate about technology, sometimes I attend out…