Fixer. Conference speaker. Fintech CSO. Former NYPD Intelligence. Co-author Cyber Crime Primer (Cognella, 2023); co-host Tech Debt Burndown Read more
I wrote this article on LinkedIn in January, 2020. I’ve updated it here in March, 2021. In 2019, I...
In my last job, I struck up a conversation with the guy tasked with provisioning my mobile phone...
Are you asking the right questions to determine how well your vendors will protect your data?...
It’s no secret that data breaches have become so common that people tend to think, “Oh, another...
A human resources guy I respect said something today that really hit home: when you’re discussing...
A few months ago, Ben Singleton and I wrote a piece that focused on the role of reserve officers....
It's shockingly easy for hackers to hijack your digital life using phone numbers. The public should...
A few times a year, we’ll hear on the local news the story of some cop who takes it upon himself,...
Once, I was involved in an effort to break some bad habits. Among them, there had developed a...
The information security community is collectively and justifiedly furious over the revelations by...
You may have noticed a mountain of spam over the past month, telling you in breathless terms how...
When I see things like someone calling the cops because a black man is wearing socks in a swimming...
Facebook’s business model is to sell information about you to advertisers, and that is how they...
As I watch the world having conniption fits over Facebook “privacy,” and discussions on the...
I’ve been arguing for years that we in information security aren’t doing anyone any favors when we...
…not leaving. The best reason for not just deleting my Medium account is that about 1000 of you...
"I don't have ID," Floyd is saying, "they won't let me into the shelter without ID." Welcome to a...
As our nation reels from another mass shooting, the same conversation is being repeated:...
Opinion contributors On Thursday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the state's Sandra Bland Act, named...
(Associated Press) Everyone in the security world is worried about leaking. Last week, for...