CISOs have a lot of patience. Patience however is a virtue that can be tested from time to time. As the old saying goes, if you're not a part of the solution…
Carl Timmons was given 24 hours to decide what he wanted to do. This was a tactic. Twenty four hours to sit alone and think about all the money he could want and the price he’d pay for it. And 24 hours to also contemplate what Andre Savin might do to him before he...
Andre Savin and Lincoln Palmer had met on several occasions and had the type of relationship you’d expect between two men of their standings on the billionaire scale. Contemptuous but also understanding. They were both driven by the same desire—access to...
Belfast, New York - 1889 They called him The Boston Strong Boy—arguably the first real boxing star and one of the highest paid athletes of his time. He’d always been good at school. He attended Boston College where his parents thought he might pursue a life in the...
About three minutes into planning this post, I had one of those “god, I am old” moments. Here is why I had the moment. I have worked in cybersecurity since 1994. My first job was at a big 3 working for the U.S. government through one of the world’s...
Account takeover fraud may sound like a familiar term in cybersecurity, yet its prevention methods in the e-commerce domain are still nuanced. Retailers are historically concerned with payment fraud systems related to chargebacks. This happens when a customer makes a...
Kuwait, 1990 I’m launched out of a submarine a few miles off the coast of Kuwait City. When I swim to shore, I quickly change into my dry land clothes—a full burka. I was a six-foot-one Marine posing as a good Muslim woman. The catch, beneath the modest...
