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

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...

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...

Thought this was really spot on. The knives get sharpened and readied.  At some point, they come flying out of nowhere.  Often, from...

As everyone knows, Uber is essentially--for now--a high-tech taxi company. And high-tech tends to command high price. But they are IMH...

We are a nation in utter denial over our problems. Just to name a few... Whether from the threat of North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un...

So risk management is one of the most important skills for leadership.  Risk is a function of threats, vulnerabilities, probabilities, a...

Today unveiled is a new Cybersecurity National Action Plan .  This in the wake of another Federal data breach on Sunday at the Departmen...

I took this photo in the Washington, D.C. Metro today.  What do you think it is? Lots of electronics, wires, lights--and in front of i...

So SCADA are Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems. They are a form of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) that m...

Usually when we talk about the dangers of cyber attacks, we are concerned with the dangers of someone stealing, spying, or systematic...

Buying a serious computer vulnerability is now like acquiring a nuke on the black market.  Nations and terrorists will pay to find the...

A new article by Andy Blumenthal on cyber security and cloud computing in Public CIO Magazine (June 2012) called Securing Cloud Data M...

Good video by the The Washington Post (2 June 2012) on the importance and challenges of cybersecurity.  There are 12 billion devices o...

Information Security, like all security, needs to be managed on a risk management basis .   This is a fundamental principle that was...

I came across two very interesting and concerning studies on cloud computing--one from last year and the other from last month. Here...

! This video is of an incredible opening statement by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Subcommittee Chairman on Oversight, Investigations, and ...

I watched an interesting TED video presented by Brene Brown, who has a doctorate in social work and is a author many times over--she tal...

Stage freight (aka "performance anxiety") is one the most common phobias. While often attributed to children, this is really ...

Center of Gravity (COG) is a military concept that Dr. Joseph Strange defines as “primary sources of moral or physical strength, power, and ...