Lohrmann on Cybersecurity

Are insiders or outsiders the greatest IT threat to enterprise security? Lately, the pendulum seems to be swinging towards the insider threat.

Ms. Teresa M. (Teri) Takai, who is the CIO for the United States Department of Defense (DoD), has been an exceptional leader in government for more than a decade. She served as state government CIO in both Michigan and California before joining DoD as CIO in 2010. Ms. Takai was appointed to the FirstNet Board of Directors in August 2012.

There is a free webinar coming up on the topic of BYOD. The online event will be on Tuesday, June 18, at 2 PM (EST).

Do the ends justify the means in the case of Edward Snowden disclosing classified NSA secrets to the world? I think not.

The news media this week was full of articles describing the U.S. government's role in gathering, mining and analyzing big data from nine leading U.S. Internet companies in order to stop terrorism. Where is this capability going?

Yes, spear phishing is hot all over the USA - very hot. In fact, this threat may be #1 on the list.

For those who worry that individual privacy rights and personal freedoms are already being eroded by the Internet and new technology hold on to your virtual safety belts. Many experts are predicting almost everything will be recorded in public in the near future with wearable tech, whether you like it or not.

For some reason, there seems to be an abundance of career advice floating around social media web pages right now. What are some of these good career tips, and what is the best career advice I ever received?

What do hackers and Mother's Day have in common? According to the wealth of cyberspace knowledge that is defined by Wikipedia, a hacker can mean many things...

What will actually happen in (or to) cyberspace on May 7, 2013? Is this the new normal in cyber threats?

There has been a lot of discussion over the past week about Twitter and the power of social media following the breach of the Associated Press (AP) Twitter feed last Tuesday. Bottom line, each of us still needs to decide: Can I trust that tweet?

After the unprecedented events of that took place in and around Boston last week, where are we now and where are we going?