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Today, technology is evolving at a faster rate than ever before. As a result of the rapid rate of change, we are creating an ever-increasing amount of data.

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.

One of the most satisfying parts of my role as Editor in Chief of Security magazine is the opportunity to share stories with you.

End-to-end encryption provides a foundational data protection safeguard, allowing secure data transfer between the sender and recipient while blocking it from external compromise. It also means this data can be inaccessible to law enforcement, who then must find alternative means to access that data. 

When it comes to employee awareness training, many organizations opt for phishing testing to gauge the state of their employee awareness

Should sensitivity training be required for today’s security professionals?

Think about how many times a day you use a password, key, card, or fob — if your day is anything like mine, it's probably in the dozens.

Now that the list of victims of mobile spyware includes household names like Jeff Bezos, many security professionals are well aware that any commercial smartphone can be remotely compromised and essentially turned into a live bug that hears everything the user says and hears. 

The use of facial recognition in the United States public sector has received a great deal of press lately, and most of it isn’t positive. 

On October 1, 2017 a lone gunman fired down from the 32^nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, killings dozens of people attending a country music festival.