Paul Wagenseil

6 days ago | scworld.com | Paul Wagenseil

Companies that align their cybersecurity and business goals are far more likely to achieve cyber resilience, their ability to withstand a major disruption of their information-technology processes and infrastructure. That's the gist of the newly released 2025 Futures Report from LevelBlue, a joint venture between AT&T and WillJam Ventures.

1 week ago | scworld.com | Paul Wagenseil

Much of the thinking around artificial intelligence (AI) doesn't truly reflect what AI is or what it does, two researchers said in different presentations at the BSides SF and RSAC cybersecurity conferences in San Francisco last week. "The people who are talking about AI are making it up," said Ira Winkler, Field CISO of CYE Security, during a talk at RSAC. "They often don't know what they're talking about, like AI is some magical entity.

1 week ago | scworld.com | Paul Wagenseil

SAN FRANCISCO — Any doubts whether former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Chris Krebs maintains substantial support within the information-security community were put to rest Thursday (May 1) as he walked onstage to loud applause at the RSAC conference here. Krebs is currently being investigated, and has had his security clearance revoked, by the second Trump Administration, apparently as punishment for declaring that the 2020 general election was free and fair.

2 weeks ago | scworld.com | Paul Wagenseil

SAN FRANCISCO — The entire American system of identity— not just online digital identities, but drivers' licenses and passports too — is a barely functioning mess that may collapse as it is undermined by deepfakes and other forms of AI-generated fraud, a security researcher said at the RSAC conference here Wednesday (April 30). "It's just pathetic," said Caleb Sima of the Cloud Security Alliance. "It's a massive problem.

2 weeks ago | scworld.com | Paul Wagenseil

SAN FRANCISCO — 5G will speed up the adoption of zero-trust principles as the number of embedded and Internet of Things devices using high-speed cellular connections proliferates and threatens enterprise networks. That was the message delivered here at the RSAC security conference April 29 by Anubhav Arora, VP of Security Engineering at Ericsson, and Dr. Chase Cunningham of Lumu Technologies.