Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

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Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Counting the Minutes: Turning To G-d ." The clock is ticking, but are w...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Lessons From Israel In Stopping Ransomware ." Israel is a small, but pow...

New Years 2022.  Congratulations! But I wouldn't call it "eggcellent," because there is a lot of world instability and fear lo...

It's amazing how we can magically find $2 trillion for a Coronavirus "Rescue Plan." This after we already wasted over $6...

So good today to visit the NIST Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) . The cybersecurity solutions developed are aligned to ...

So this is a city with a lot of secrets.  I'm not talking about just the run-of-the-mill, non-disclosure agreement (NDA). This i...

Today is the 17th anniversary since that fateful day of 9/11 when the terrorists brought down both World Trade Centers and ploughed anothe...

So this was an interesting technology fashion statement. This lady in Washington, D.C. has earrings that are floppy disks.  One full d...

So here is one way that some people can (try to) manipulate you--positively or negatively.  They can help either to keep you "in th...

So this was the funniest War of the Roses on the Kane Show that I ever heard.  They use the Alexa personal assistant from Amazon (voiceove...

So I found this book in an IT colleague's office.  It's called: "The Unofficial I Hate Computer Book". It was writ...

So in virus protection on the computer, there are 2 common ways antivirus software works: 1) Signature Detection - There are known pa...

Saw this acronym to describe the types of cyber threats and thought it was useful. STRIDE S poofing - Falsifying identity to gain syst...

Here are Andy Blumenthal's technology forecast and priorities for 2018. 1. Medical Computing - Continue the significant progress an...

There is a very useful article in Bloomberg about how the U.S. is taking too long to publish cybersecurity vulnerabilities.  And the lo...

So we have never been more technology advanced.  And at the same time, we have never been more vulnerable .  As we all know, our cyberse...

So my friend who lives in FL and recently experienced the crazy hurricanes down there said something very interesting to me.  This was d...

Okay, when I saw this map of the Soviet Union pre-1991 breakup, I got it! Russia lost 14 Former Soviet Union (FSU) states after the fal...

The table describes the alignment of the various people, process, and technology lifecycles commonly used in Information Technology to the...