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Cyber Tactics

DECADE OF THE RATs: Novel Cross-Platform APT Attacks Targeting Linux Windows and Android

John McClurg
John McClurg
May 1, 2020

As China forges its role as one of the great world powers, it relies upon a blast furnace of espionage operations to acquire foreign technologies and intellectual property, better position itself against competing international powers and control its own image both at home and abroad.


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Attribution: 3 Questions to Ask When Deciding How It Matters

John McClurg
John McClurg
April 1, 2020

Attribution is often regarded as a primary goal within a cybersecurity investigation, but as John McClurg, CISO at Blackberry, explores here, conclusive attribution should at times exist as a secondary consideration - one abandoned if the ROI doesn't justify its expense.


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Better Mobile Security with a Mobile Threat Defense Plan

What is a Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) and do you have one?
John McClurg
John McClurg
March 1, 2020

Why your enterprise needs a Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) in place. Today!


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A Framework for Measuring InfoSec as a Business Function

John McClurg
John McClurg
February 2, 2020

In my December column, I ended with the observation that many CISOs struggle when it comes to first determining and then actually communicating the business value of the security options out there.


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New Year Prognostications: A Perennial Guide for the Perplexed

John McClurg
John McClurg
January 1, 2020

2020 heralds a few major shifts that will transform cybersecurity: ransomware attacks, artificial intelligence, facial recognition and mobile cybersecurity.


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Expense-in-Depth: Total Cost of Controls Reconsidered

John McClurg
John McClurg
December 1, 2019

What is a Defense-in-Depth strategy, and why has it come to be acknowledged as Expense-in-Depth? How can CISO's communicate the business value of this strategy?


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"Trust" Revisited: The Birth of Continuous Authentication

John McClurg
John McClurg
November 1, 2019

The Philosopher Hericlitus once opined – “You can’t step in the same river twice,” implying that no concept remains static but is always churning and evolving.


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AR and VR: How Immersive Technology Is Bringing Cybersecurity Scenarios to Life

John McClurg
John McClurg
October 1, 2019

While VR and AR have different fortes, both enhance and accelerate experiential learning that can help manifest and reinforce a culture of cybersecurity across industries. It is technology implications like this that will help propel cybersecurity awareness into a state of mass awareness.


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How Sense of Privacy Threatens Facial Recognition's Protective Power

John McClurg
John McClurg
September 2, 2019

Anxious feelings towards facial recognition can, if unchecked, reach a point where they undermine common sense and our ability to leverage new technologies in the protection of the innocent and prosecution of the guilty.


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The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act: a Lesson from the Past

John McClurg
John McClurg
August 1, 2019

On a recent trip to Australia, I appeared on a National morning news show. It wasn’t long until the hosts were trying to get me to weigh in on a debate that was then raging in their legislature.


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