“Saying sorry, even when you didn't do anything wrong, shows you care.” Quote by Garima Soni - words world
“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
“Signature-based malware detection is dead. Machine learning based Artificial Intelligence is the most potent defense the next gen adversary and the mutating hash.” Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningJames ScottIcitMlMalware Detection 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
“In this business, I find more value in working with hackers who abstract new realities from cast aside code and concepts than academics who regurgitate other people’s work and try to pawn it off as their own.” CybersecurityHackersJames ScottIcitSenior Fellow Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“In this digital age, we're experiencing the weaponization of everything.” Digital AgeJames ScottWeaponization Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology