Karl is a lead writer on cloud security for TechRepublic, specializing in enterprise security risks, strategies, products, threats, trends and technologies for securing organizations. After graduating from Florida State University, he worked for the Tampa Tribune, and radio and TV stations in Tallahassee before moving to Boulder, Colorado. After receiving an MFA in dramatic writing from Brooklyn College he became a journalist and wrote for several years for publications covering the automotive, industrial chemical, internet tech and consumer marketing verticals. He has written for Adweek, Brandweek, The Chemical Market Reporter and MediaPost, and was also the public affairs officer at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering for six years prior to coming to TA.
YubiKeys are my favorite tech at this point because of the proliferation of threats directred at idenity access. While there are numerous protection techs and password management platforms, including passkeys, a device-centered encrypted key is the sine qua non for me. Also bicycles and guitars.
The White House has announced the first iteration of the National Cybersecurity Implementation Plan. Read on to learn more about the plan and alignment with the five essential pillars.
Among the strategic propositions in Gartner’s 2023-2024 cybersecurity outlook are that organizations need to institute cultural changes to lower pressure on security teams.
With the launch of watsonx.ai and watsonx.data, the company is creating a platform approach to an AI workbench, allowing customers to deploy IBM, open-source or their own AI models.
The Council’s first benchmark found that 84% of companies have not implemented ethical access, use and outcome policies and procedures per their cloud agendas.
Thales cloud security study shows that 79% of organizations have more than one cloud provider and 75% of companies said they store at least 40% of their sensitive data in the cloud.
New research on operational technology vulnerabilities by Armis found that 56% of engineering workstations have at least one unpatched critical severity.
The FIDO Alliance’s Andrew Shikiar explains how passkeys are quickly replacing passwords as the next-generation login, a low friction, high security protocol for any device.
Pro-Kremlin groups Anonymous Sudan, Killnet and Clop have other motivations than just hacktivism as they widen their attack field beyond political targets.
The company’s CTO of its Prisma Cloud says that when the software development process meets continuous integration and development, security must be efficient and holistic.
