Cybersecurity Insights and Trends

CyberSecurity   by Doug McCord

My wife and I recently had the opportunity to give our kids a one-day whirlwind tour of the US capital. Driving south to meet up with family, we stopped in DC for the evening, (planning to jampack our Saturday),...

CyberSecurity   by Doug McCord

In late January, a cybersecurity researcher with the help of Cybernews made a stunning find: 12 Terrabytes of carefully compiled, stolen personal information—in a database containing 26 billion records.  Dubbed MOAB (Mother of all Breaches), this international collection of...

Cloud Computing   by Doug McCord

By 2025, it’s estimated that half the world’s data—100 of 200 total zettabytes (each a trillion gigabytes)—will be in the cloud.        With this scale of adoption, it’s no surprise that the cloud is increasingly a target for...

Career Advice   by Doug McCord

Cybercrime is dramatically on the rise. With more than 89% of US organizations experiencing cyberattacks every 12 months and more than 360 million people impacted by data breaches from January–August 2023 alone, it’s a problem that increasingly impacts everyone.  ...

Artificial Intelligence   by Doug McCord

With 1 in 2 organizations suffering a successful cyberattack over the past three years, the global cost of cybercrime in 2024 could reach $14.57 trillion (see References below for sources). 2023 represented a new high-water mark for cyberattacks like...