“The health sector continuously get’s pummeled by malicious actors and hackers because their cyber-kinetic security is being managed by “Participation Trophy” winning wimps!” SecurityHealthHackersJames ScottCyber SecurityIcit Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Overall, Cyber Shield Act is an excellent idea and could facilitate a much-needed cultural shift in secure device manufacturing and upkeep." James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology” SecurityCongressJames ScottIcitCritical InfrastructureCapitolhillLegislative CommunityCyber Shield ActSecure Device Manufacturing Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Most IoT devices that lack security by design simply pass the security responsibility to the consumer, thus, treating the customers as techno-crash test dummies. James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology” SecurityCongressJames ScottIcitIotCritical InfrastructureCapitolhillLegislative CommunitySecurity By Design Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“The two main problems with signature and heuristic based anti-virus is the mutating hash and the fact that you first need a victim in order to obtain the signature." James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology” SecurityCongressJames ScottIcitCritical InfrastructureSenior FellowCapitolhillLegislative CommunityAnti VirusMutating Hash Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“If developed and implemented meaningfully, Cyber Shield Act could be a catalyst to incite responsible cybersecurity adoption and implementation throughout multiple manufacturing sectors." James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology” SecurityCongressCybersecurityJames ScottIcitCritical InfrastructureCapitolhillLegislative CommunityCyber Shield ActManufacturing Sectors Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery" James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology” SecurityCongressJames ScottIcitCritical InfrastructureCapitolhillLegislative CommunityCyber Shield Act Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Overall, Cyber Shield Act is an excellent idea and could facilitate a much-needed cultural shift in secure device manufacturing and upkeep.” SecurityCongressJames ScottIcitCritical InfrastructureCapitolhillLegislative CommunityCyber Shield ActSecure Device Manufacturing Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery” SecurityCongressJames ScottIcitCritical InfrastructureCapitolhillLegislative CommunityCyber Shield Act Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“There's a compounding and unraveling chaos that is perpetually in motion in the Dark Web's toxic underbelly.” SecurityCybersecurityJames ScottIcitDark Web Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Real cybersecurity means that your Security Operations team is consistently pen testing your network with the same stealth and sophistication as the Russian nation state, the same desperation as China’s 13th Five Year Plan, the same inexhaustible energy of the Cyber Caliphate and the same greed and ambition for monetary payoff as a seasoned cyber-criminal gang.” SecurityChinaCybersecurityRussianStealthCyber CrimeEnergy Of The Cyber Caliphate Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“I don’t care how secure you think your organization is, I’ll social engineer my way inside in less than 24 hours regardless of the sophistication of your IoT microcosm security. Whatever obstacles I run into exploiting your technical vulnerabilities will be made up for by exploiting the vulnerabilities in the cyber hygiene of your staff.” SecurityCybersecurityJames ScottSocial EngineeringIotCyber Hygiene Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“The security theater we are witnessing in our election system boasting the illusion of security via ‘clunky as heck’ and air gap defense will do nothing against the real and sophisticated adversarial landscape that is zeroing in on our democracy” AmericaDemocracySecurityVoteElectionVotingDefenceCybersecurityJames ScottIcitCyberattacks Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“We’re talking about the fate of our economy and the questionable resiliency of our Nation’s critical infrastructure. Why are experts so polite, patient, and forgiving when talking about cybersecurity and National Security? The drama of each script kiddie botnet attack and Nation State pilfering of our IP has been turned into a soap opera through press releases, sound bites and enforced absurdity of mainstream media. It’s time for a cybersecurity zeitgeist in the West where cyber hygiene is a meme that is aggressively distributed by those who have mastered it and encouraged to be imitated by those who have experienced it.” EconomySecurityMediaNational SecurityCybersecurityJames ScottCyber SecurityIcitCritical InfrastructureCyber HygieneBotnetCybersecurity Zeitgeist Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“You'll have the right to be angry about Vault 7 only after you boycott dragnet surveillance data providers like Google, Microsoft, Skype, Facebook and LinkedIn. The true threat is coming from the private sector surveillance profiteers.” SecurityGoogleSurveillanceMicrosoftFacebookCybersecurityWikileaksJames ScottSkypeIcitLinkedinDragnetVault 7Vault7 Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“A single spear-phishing email carrying a slightly altered malware can bypass multi-million dollar enterprise security solutions if an adversary deceives a cyber-hygienically apathetic employee into opening the attachment or clicking a malicious link and thereby compromising the entire network.” SecurityCybersecurityNetworkJames ScottIcitMalwarePhishing Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Many members of Isis are not sophisticated attackers. The majority of members do not have a technical background. The UCC is predominately capable of hacking soft targets, such as Twitter accounts, and spreading propaganda or defacing websites” AmericaDemocracySecurityVoteElectionVotingCybersecurityJames ScottIcitCyberattacks Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“In an age of dynamic malware obfuscation through operations such as mutating hash, a hyper-evolving threat landscape, and technologically next generation adversaries, offensive campaigns have an overwhelming advantage over defensive strategies.” SecurityNext GenerationCybersecurityJames ScottMalwareNetwork Security Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Few critical infrastructures need to expedite their cyber resiliency as desperately as the health sector, who repeatedly demonstrates lackadaisical cyber hygiene, finagled and Frankensteined networks, virtually unanimous absence of security operations teams and good ol’ boys club bureaucratic board members flexing little more than smoke and mirror, cyber security theatrics as their organizational defense.” SecurityCybersecurityJames ScottIcitHealthitCritical InfrastructuresHealth Sector Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“In this cyberwar, industry is on their own and must combat nation states, cyber mercenaries, cyber caliphate and other actors via layered security laced with intelligent machines.” SecurityJames ScottCyberwarCyber CaliphateCyber Mercenaries Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Cyber hygiene, patching vulnerabilities, security by design, threat hunting and machine learning based artificial intelligence are mandatory prerequisites for cyber defense against the next generation threat landscape.” SecurityIntelligenceCybersecurityMachine LearningJames ScottIcitCyber HygieneSecurity By Design Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Every conceivable layer of the election process is completely riddled with vulnerabilities, so yes, hacking elections is easy!” SecurityElectionVotingElectionsHackingCybersecurityElection 2016MalwarePhishing Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Why all this fear and paranoia around Vault 7 and WikiLeaks? Solve the problem by demanding regulation that centers around Security by Design by technology manufactures, problem solved” TechnologySecurityWikileaksJamesIcitSecurity By DesignVault 7 Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology