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AI Model Security – How it Can All Go Wrong

One of the root causes of the current meteoric advances in AI has been the free and open disclosure of machine learning (ML) concepts and results through mechanisms such as the arXiv technical paper repository. Another critical but often overlooked driver has been, however, the sharing of machine learning software tools and libraries between AI...

Pat Enterprise Ready

To continue the theme of putting yourself in the customer’s shoes when pursuing enterprise sales, it is useful to consider some (perhaps unexpressed) expectations typical of enterprise buyers that may not be typical of entrepreneurial design practices. To effectively sell a platform as “enterprise ready” startups must understand and address these expectations. Attempts to address...

GP Pat Muoio sits down with Cybersecurity Unplugged to discuss a variety of cybersecurity topics

Pat Muoio joined Cybersecurity Unplugged to discuss: SineWave’s thesis on cybersecurity; Why companies should think about cyber resilience, not just cybersecurity; Software vulnerabilities and our future outlook – are we doomed? Ransomware and its surrounding drama; The evolution of the CISO; The connection between venture capital, cybersecurity and the government. Click Here to Listen: Are...

Time to be Less Dramatic About Ransomware

Much of the ransomware rhetoric these days comes from the action movie school of cyber security thinking.  Let’s fight back against attackers, let’s trace them through cyberspace and steal back the ransom, let’s (gasp) levee political sanctions.  While these responses make good stories, they don’t do much to stop any ransomware attack or even to...

Wielding Federal Buying Power to Improve Software Assurance

By Patricia Muoio The recent Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO) offers the promise of delivering on two important ideas: the substantial buying-power of the federal government is strong enough to influence the products in the marketplace; and we can and should improve the quality of our software. By using its place in...