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Send us Fan Mail I met Jon Rolf over 20 years ago when he was at NSA while jointly researching some high assurance solutions dealing with trusted computing and virtualization. Jon served in several prominent roles at NSA before finishing his service as Director at NIAP - the National Information Assurance Partnership - which is the organization that oversees a national program to evaluate Commerci...

Send us Fan Mail Jerry Ryan, former principal consultant with Dell, takes us on a 30 minute journey as he offers tips, information, and back stories he has learned over his 40+ years in the IT industry around endpoint management and security. 

Send us Fan Mail At the beginning of each year, for the past 10 or more years, I am excited to get the invite from my friend Larry Gordon to make the trek to the University of Maryland to attend the annual, day long forum on Financial Information Systems and Cybersecurity: A Public Policy Perspective . This year's agenda for the 20th Forum was loaded with interesting topics and speakers. The...

Send us Fan Mail I received a call a while back from my good friend, Jim Rice, who wanted to introduce me to a company with whom he had been collaborating on a solution. Jim has a knack to be on top of the next big market wave – in this case it was zero trust – and so I was eager to hear more about the solution. Jim introduced me to Chris Romeo, the CEO of OneTier who is partnered with Vantiq – Ji...

Send us Fan Mail The CISA Software Acquisition Guide for Government Enterprise Consumers: Software Assurance in the Cyber-Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM) Lifecycle product was developed in response to the core challenges of software assurance and cybersecurity transparency in the acquisition process, focusing primarily on software lifecycle activities. The Software Acquisition Guide focuses...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Daly, host of the Active Cyber Zone, discusses the evolution, use cases, and benefits of Confidential Computing with Ron Perez, Intel Fellow and Chief Security Architect. From the cloud, to the edge, to the endpoint, Confidental Computing is seeing an uptick of adoption and new applications as industry and governments recognize the need for hardware-based separation and atte...

Send us Fan Mail Alison King, VP of Government Affairs of Forescout Technologies, joins Chris Daly in the Active Cyber Zone to discuss government policies across a range of cyber topics and technologies. Ali was deeply involved in the crafting of multiple federal cyber reports and doctrinal materials durng her time as a civil servant. Now she leads Forescout's government policy efforts for th...

Send us Fan Mail The  Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a DoD initiative to help secure the supply chain of controlled unclassified information (CUI). Run out of the DoD CIO office, and required through DoD acquisition provisions, it requires contractors and integrators to meet stringent security measures to protect CUI. Learn about the CMMC process, how it evolved, its status t...

Send us Fan Mail I like returning each year to the AFCEA Technet Cyber Conference as it always has a lively exhibit hall and interesting panels and discussions. It is also focused quite a bit on government issues and solutions, although not exclusively, as members of the IC, DoD, and other federal agencies provide their insights into the trending cyber issues of the day. As a member of the media,...

Send us Fan Mail  Vulnerability management programs form the foundation of most managed security services and SOC efforts. Despite a plethora of scanning and discovery tools, I remember as a former SOC Manager how difficult it was to maintain comprehensive visibility of managed assets and to provide quick reaction to detected vulnerabilities. Remediation efforts were often laborious and it was dif...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Daly sits down with two members of Securely Managed LLC to discuss the day-to-day operations of a MSSP and a SOC as a service. Richard Cozart, Security Architect, and Michael Staley, SOC Director, go over the ins and outs of running 24/7 managed security services and review some of the fundamental technologies that make a SOC go.

Send us Fan Mail Active Cyber sits down with Sajay Rai - CEO of Securely Yours - to discuss what it takes to be "cyber ready." Sajay dives into the consulting offerings of Securely Yours, describes the foundational standards and guides for becoming cyber ready, and discusses how different customers in different industries at different levels of maturity look at cyber readiness a little d...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Daly of Active Cyber sits down with Sajay Rai, CEO of Securely Managed LLC, a top 250 MSSP, to discuss the challenges of being a MSSP. He reveals how he customizes offerings and partners with leading vendors to meet the changing needs of his diverse customer set. He also discusses his journey from security consulting to MSSP and how his sister company - Securely Yours, which...

Send us Fan Mail  Assuring the secure adoption of a new technology, assessing your software supply chain for risks, hunting for vulnerabilities in your infrastructure are all complex and challenging tasks - but ones that are critical to securing your business or government agency. Having specialized, automated tools that are seamlessly integrated using standard methods and interfaces can significa...

Send us Fan Mail Kurtis Minder, CEO of Groupsense - a digital risk protection services company , and Ritesh Agrawal, CEO of Airgap Networks - a cybersecurity vendor of the industry’s first agentless Ransomware Kill Switch, met with Chris Daly in this podcast by ActiveCyber.net to discuss their partnership to help companies fight ransomware. Clients can microsegment their networks to automatically...

Send us Fan Mail As a former SOC Director, I can appreciate the value of a cyber platform that provides the hygiene and cleaning of the network. Although the mantra of "assume breach" is often valid, we still need to pay close and continuous attention to preventative measures. That is also the target area of Cyvatar who provides a "Cybersecurity-as-a-Service" offering. I got a...

Send us Fan Mail This week is a busy week for those getting ready for Black Hat and Defcon. So I felt very lucky to land an interview with John Morgan - the CEO of Confluera, a cybersecurity start-up focused on endpoint detection and response. Learn how Confluera's innovative storyboarding platform provides enhanced insights for runtime threat detection and response. Find out why they are foc...

Send us Fan Mail Djenana Campara, CEO of KDM Analytics along with Steve Seiden, President of AcquireData Solutions (ADS) and Dr. Tony Barber discuss the features and benefits of the Blade Risk Assessment tool. Blade applies a model-based systems engineering approach to risk assessment while using NIST RMF controls to provide a strong foundation for developing mitigations for identified risk areas....

Send us Fan Mail John D - the founder of AR start-up Virfiti - describes some of the use cases, technology and opportunities in the field of augmented reality in this interview with Chris Daly of Active Cyber.net. Learn how SLAM, Unity3D, meshed point clouds, blockchain, image recognition, social media all play together as John takes us through a technology journey that will become a disrupter and...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Daly of Active Cyber and Major General Matthews discuss emerging cyber issues, the role of security instrumentation platforms such as Verodin, and emerging IoT security requirements.