“Four years!” As soon as the words left my mouth, I regretted saying them. Not because they were wrong, rather the incredulousness in my voice was instantly met with furrowed brows and folded arms. Across the table was a potential customer, and thanks to my lack of...
Why do mega breaches happen? Fire up the portal gun Morty, we are going on adventure. Line up a thousand information security gurus across the cyber multiverse and you will hear them blame hackers, poor software design, lack of funding, Donald Trump, and a million...
It is that time of year to reflect upon the accomplishments (or failures) of the year and think about next year. One of the exercises we do at Anitian from time to time is “Start/Stop/Stay” – that is, what are the things we need to start doing, the things we need to...
Every week it seems a new breach is announced with a big load of credit cards or healthcare data popping up on the various criminal exchanges. This erodes confidence in retailers and healthcare providers everywhere, as well as the integrity of the PCI DSS. Consumers...
The curriculum of business schools are filled with case studies of companies that took short cuts to become competitive and accomplished the exact opposite. For the information security world, there is a similar “penny-wise, pound-foolish” behavior in the notorious...
In the ten years Anitian has been working incident response and digital forensic cases, our analysts have observed many ingenious ways to break into systems and applications. However, they rarely encounter an ingenious root cause for the vulnerabilities. After all...
