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Preventing a Product Security Crisis

17 Apr 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Matthew Rosenquist

The video conference company Zoom has skyrocketed to new heights and plummeted to new lows in the past few weeks.  It is one of the handful of communications applications that is perfectly suited to a world beset by quarantine actions, yet has falle...

What Is Open Source Information - and Why Is It Important To You?

28 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Tank

Open Source Information is information that is available to anyone on the internet. If you’ve ever “google’d yourself” you’ve accessed the open source information available on you. It can be a bit creepy, finding out exactly what information ab...

Gone with the Phone...

7 Feb 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Mumriken

My wife lost her phone yesterday. The chaos that followed has really made me think about how vulnerable we are today, when literally almost everything is placed in this wearable (and loosable) computer. As a matter of fact, the more we are able to pu...

Avast Shuts Down its Data Sales Subsidiary Due to Privacy Backlash

1 Feb 2020 2 minute read 4 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Avast was recently caught selling user's web browsing data.  Sensitive data like website destinations, search terms, and even what videos customers watched were collected by Avast software residing on customers' computers.  The data was repackaged a...

Collaboration Makes Smart Cities More Secure

22 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

I am excited to join the development team for the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Smart Cities and Communities Framework (SCCF) with a focus on cybersecurity and privacy.  The volunteer team is working to develop a compreh...

Being Quoted is the Greatest Compliment

20 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

As a cybersecurity speaker, it is important to communicate in ways that resonate, inform, and inspire audiences.   It is always nice when someone uses one of my quotes, validating I made a worthwhile connection. In this case, my insights were part o...