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Demand, CyberInsurance, and Automation/AI Are the Future of InfoSec

Daniel Miessler

2021-2030) A Surge in Demand for InfoSec people will result in many more professionals being trained and placed within companies, likely using more of a trade/certification model than a 4-year university model. That’s the distant future of InfoSec, with humans playing less and less a part in the equation as time goes on.

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CTO of Center for Internet Security Expounds on Transforming InfoSec

SecureWorld News

We have so much change happening and we can drive it to happen in a more positive way to reduce the resource needs for organizations and actually scale security for businesses of all sizes.".

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Daniel Miessler on My Writings about IoT Security

Schneier on Security

Daniel Miessler criticizes my writings about IoT security: I know it's super cool to scream about how IoT is insecure, how it's dumb to hook up everyday objects like houses and cars and locks to the internet, how bad things can get, and I know it's fun to be invited to talk about how everything is doom and gloom.

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Relax. Internet password books are OK

Malwarebytes

The big book of passwords. There’s one password management tool which experiences more than its fair share of derision—the oft-maligned Internet password book. These are, as you may expect, physical books which are little more than empty notepads with “Internet password book” written on the front.

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Everything is Insecure: What Matters is What You’re Getting vs. Giving Up

Daniel Miessler

The internet is a tire fire of horrible software. It’s astounding that the internet even works given how bad the infrastructure and software is. Zoom is no highway system, and it’s no Internet. That’s a powerful, meaningful choice we’ve made. And that brings me back to the Zoom thing.

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Cyber Pearl Harbor Is Happening Right Now — It’s Ransomware

Daniel Miessler

Since 2007 the InfoSec industry has been talking about TheBigOne™—the event that would change cyber threats from annoyances to existential concerns. The idea was that it’d be some massive blast that would take out the country’s power grid, or disable the entire internet, along with what they used to call e-commerce.

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Episode 148: Joseph Menn on Cult of the Dead Cow also Veracode CEO Sam King on InfoSec’s Leaky Talent Pipeline

The Security Ledger

In this week's episode of the podcast: Joseph Menn's new book Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World hit store shelves this week. » Related Stories Forty Year Old GPS Satellites tell us lots about securing the Internet of Things Podcast Episode 138: Hacker President? . »