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Describing cybersecurity can look a lot like the story of the blind men and the elephant. One grabs the trunk and says “This is a snake." Another reaches to the elephant’s ear and says it’s a fan. One feels the tusk and says it’s a spear. And so on, each believing that they - and only they - know the elephant.. To many, cybersecurity is IT managing the network. To others, it’s complying with laws...

Albert Einstein famously said: “We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them” Bill Gates clearly articulated the thinking that got us into our cybersecurity mess when he wrote in his 1999 book Business@The Speed of Thought: “How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.” Where are cybersecurity and privacy in Bill’s predictio...

“What we have here is a failure to communicate.”    Strother Martin to Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke. A related quote often attributed to George Bernard Shaw “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” Join Stan and Julie as they riff on this all-too common challenge that what we say doesn’t always convey what we mean. In cybersecurity the failu...

Noted author and satirist H.L. Mencken is famous for pointing out that  “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. ” Join Dr. Stan and Julie as they riff on this all-too-common human desire for simple solutions to complex problems. How it’s built into our neurology. How it makes it harder to manage cybersecurity. And even how it manifests in the conspiracy...

Tom Stoppard, in his play "Arcadia" describes the scientific ferment of the 1820s as follows: "A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong."   This is part of the way I feel about where we are today.… Everything we thought we knew is wrong...

In cybersecurity, We're being told "Don't trust. Verify."  This makes the cybersecurity industry an unwilling active participant in the breakdown of trust in society. And yet, Francis Fukuyama, award-winning Stanford Professor, contends in his book “Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity” that “in an era when social capital may be as important as physical capi...