By Nir Kshetri Women are highly underrepresented in the field of cybersecurity. In 2017, women’s share in the U.S. cybersecurity field was 14%, compared to 48% in the general workforce. The problem is more acute outside the U.S. In 2018, women accounted for 10% of the cybersecurity workforce in the

Not many people would argue with Thomas Edison’s quote, “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” If anything, it’s the last point – common sense – that’s been a virtue of the IT and software industry for decades, while the

The pace at which threat actors are carrying out cyber attacks has been accelerating in recent years thanks to easy access to infection vectors through offerings such as ransomware as a service, rendering many traditional on-premise security tools ineffective. According to CrowdStrike’s 2019 annual threat report, “breakout times”  – the time

AI is becoming mainstream, embedded into more and more applications of everyday life. From healthcare and finance to transportation and energy, the opportunities appear endless. Every sector is ripe with opportunities for time, money, and other resources savings, and AI provides many solutions. Yet critical questions remain unanswered related to AI

Criminals understand our weaknesses and how to exploit them. That means ransomware isn’t going away. Ransomware is rapidly shaping up to be the defining online security issue of our era. It’s a brutally simple idea, executed with increasing sophistication by criminal groups. A huge chunk of our lives is now