Author Archives: Loretta George

The amount of cyber threat noise slamming into organizations every hour isn’t just loud—it’s disorienting. Security teams are buried under a landslide of fragmented data: IP addresses, domain names, file hashes, snippets of behavior. It pours in from vendors, government … Continue reading →

The world of cyber threat intelligence is drowning in data, but starving for shared meaning. Every day, security teams receive thousands of indicators—IP addresses, file hashes, domain names—from dozens of sources. Yet too often, these pieces of intelligence arrive in … Continue reading →

I’ve spent years watching lawmakers and security agencies chase a seductive idea: let’s cut a special key for every encrypted device. Hand it to the “good guys” and they can stop criminals and terrorists before they act. On the surface, … Continue reading →

The Urgent Need for a Clearer Disclosure Standard There’s a specific kind of silence that settles in around 2 a.m. when a researcher realizes the bug she’s been chasing isn’t just a quirk—it’s a structural crack that could break things … Continue reading →

Every few weeks, a fresh vulnerability disclosure lights up your feed. The headline screams critical severity. The replies fill with alarm emojis and urgent takes. Your pulse quickens. You wonder whether everything you manage is about to collapse overnight. If … Continue reading →

We trust open source software every day. The servers running our banks, hospitals, and government agencies rely on code that volunteers wrote and maintain for free. When a vulnerability surfaces in a widely-used open source library, the scramble to patch … Continue reading →