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27 Oct 2025Doing the Hard Things (in security, and in life)
Everything is easy, until it's not... When you start a new relationship, everything feels easy. It’s exciting. It’s fresh. You want to impress. You like being impressed. You want to explore. Every day feels like a new adventure. But then reality sets in. The fun stuff gives way to routine, and routine takes work. You start learning nuances and dynamics. You have to show up. You have to communicate. You ...
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15 Oct 2025Hacking For Dummies, 8th edition…It’s official!
After months of writing, revising, and updating real-world examples, Hacking For Dummies, 8th Edition is finally out in the wild.👉 Get it here on Amazon (affiliate link) This book has been a part of my professional life for over two decades now. Thanks to you — my readers, clients, and colleagues — it’s been translated into nine languages and remains the top-selling book in its category over the past decade. ...
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21 Jul 2025Harvard Business Review article nails the challenges with underimplemented security tools
Harvard Business Review (HBR) just published a great piece that covers the challenges associated with information security tools and highlights many of the reasons that security programs often fail. Here’s the essence of the piece: Despite spending billions on tools, most organizations are seeing modest results. Nearly half the tools companies invest in go unused. Sound familiar? It gets better. Or worse. The article highlights various reasons why tools fail to ...
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15 May 2017The real reasons behind the WannaCry ransomware
As we continue down the path of yet another major security breach - this time with the ransomware WannaCry - let us remember that it's not just about the criminal hackers, out-of-control government agencies such as the NSA, or vendors such as Microsoft putting out vulnerable software. Every single one of us working in IT, security, and business today are complicit in these challenges. Outdated/unsupported operating systems are running. We ...
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03 Feb 2017
Prepping for – or dealing with – a computer security incident? Here are some resources for you.
It's a reality of using computer systems today - the threats are out there waiting to pounce, especially onto that low-hanging fruit that so many businesses overlook. Here are some pieces I've written in the recent past that address incident response, data breaches, and the like: Figuring out what happened after a data breach Questions that must be answered once a security breach occurs Six endpoint management lessons from POS ...
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04 May 2016
Yet another over-hyped security flaw making the headlines
For years now, I've ranted here and elsewhere about the nonsensical niche security "flaws" uncovered by researchers and academic scholars that often have no real bearing on business or society. There are always caveats, always reasons why these super-complicated exploits won't work, yet they make the headlines time and again. The recent Waze app discovery is a great example:Vulnerability in Google's Waze app could let hackers track you, researchers sayLook ...
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09 Feb 2015Back to basics in information security? Proven year after year but (apparently) unattainable for many.
I'm often wrong about many things in life...just ask my wife. However, I'm feeling a bit vindicated regarding my long-standing approach to information security: address the basics, minimize your risks. You see, more and more research is backing up what I've been saying for over a decade. It what was uncovered in the new Cisco 2015 Annual Security Report. [i.e. "Less than 50 percent of respondents use standard tools such ...
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05 Nov 2014
Car racing and security breaches, you’re not as ready as you think you are!
This past weekend I had the opportunity to run the race of my life - a 90 minute enduro car race in my Spec Miata - held at the America Road Race of Champions at Road Atlanta in Braselton, GA.It wasn't the most competitive race - there were only 17 entries, 14 that made it on track...I've raced with over 60 cars at once. It wasn't the most stressful race. ...
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08 Oct 2014
What no one is saying about cyber insurance
I race cars for fun and sport and found out the hard way not long ago that if I wanted to increase my life insurance I was going to have to jump through numerous hoops and pay enormous premiums for a minimal increase in my existing coverage. I was thinking about this scenario compared to 'cyber insurance' and, wow, what a difference. Knowing what I know, there appear to be minimal ...
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17 Sep 2014
What if The Home Depot looked to their own store policies for help with infosec?
If The Home Depot's management were as strict with information security as they are with store policies I'm confident they could've avoided their data breach.Have you heard their policy monger guy on their intercom system while shopping?? He sounds like that guy we've seen in those disturbing Allstate commercials. A bit creepy. It's also quite uninviting - certainly doesn't make you feel welcome in their stores.At least they've covered their ...
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His final report was very thorough and included security recommendations for our network environment. The executive leadership was so impressed with Kevin’s security expertise, they have extended their agreement to continue to perform periodic testing. We highly recommend Kevin Beaver and Principle Logic as a resource for network security testing.”
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Kevin has written/co-written 12 books on information security including one of the best-sellers of all time:
