Breaches happen every day. Nearly everyone’s data has been involved in a breach at this point (in fact, you can check if yours has been here). Security isn’t easy, and it often isn’t convenient.…
Cryptography is the science of using codes and ciphers to protect messages, at its most basic. Encryption is encoding messages with the intent of only allowing the intended recipient to understand the meaning of the message.…
Security has a lot of acronyms. What do they mean? Let’s break them down into manageable bits. First, HTTPS is actually HTTP running with TLS or SSL over it. First, we’ll cover HTTP, then TLS and SSL.…
Great! You got a conference proposal accepted. Now you need to survive the talk. We’ll assume you’re already developed an idea, submitted a proposal, and written a description.…
Growing up, I loved cheesy hacker movies like Hackers and War Games. I thought all hackers were crazy smart, crazy technical people working on super secret projects. I didn’t realize ‘hacker’ was a job title, and definitely never realized that cybersecurity was a career option.…
