Most employees breeze through cybersecurity awareness modules the way they skip through software Terms & Conditions: scroll, scroll, scroll — “I agree.” Tick the box. Move on with your day. Job done. But what if hidden inside the T&Cs — or your security training — was the equivalent of Van Halen’s infamous brown M&Ms clause? Would anyone even notice? The Wi-Fi Example: People Will Sign Anything Years ago, a security experiment in London tricked public Wi-Fi users into agreeing to a clause that required them to give up their first-born child in exchange for internet access. And people clicked “Accept.”…
Dan Raywood
Dan Raywood
Dan Raywood is a cybersecurity journalist, writing for several leading publications and regularly appears on TV and radio over the past 17 years. He has also spoken at industry events including 44CON, Irisscon and Infosecurity Europe, and has worked as both an analyst and a product marketing lead for a major vendor.
Every year, the security community attends regional conferences, which offer a combination of educational learning, hands-on training, and the opportunity to meet with new and familiar faces. Steelcon takes place in Sheffield in mid-July. This year, the conference marked its tenth event, and I’ve been delighted to have attended four of them and spoken at two of them in the past. This conference is arguably among the best in the UK, if not Europe. It offers around 20 excellent talks from renowned and new speakers in the comfortable environment of Sheffield Hallam University. The focus is on collaboration, communication, and,…
ARMO CEO Shauli Rozen talks to Dan Raywood about why cloud security needs existing technologies to be connected for better understanding of threats and alerts. “Cloud security is a top priority for every executive at large technology companies I speak with,” says Shauli Rozen, CEO and co-founder of ARMO. The current challenge is overcoming gaps in visibility. In March, ARMO debuted its Cloud Application Detection and Response (CADR) platform. According to Rozen, too many organizations still rely on “very basic detection and response” in the cloud, which results in fragmented data sets and limited insight. Rozen explains that although Cloud…