Tag: threat mitigation
Industry reckons with fear of Iranian cyberattacks
March 11, 2026Ken Showers
YARMOUTH, Maine — Military action involving Iran in recent days has sparked fears of digital reprisal, as cybersecurity experts across the industry prepare for potential attacks targeting critical systems and private data.
The consequences of such attacks could even spill into the physical world, according to RunSafe Security CEO Joe Saunders.
“With the U.S. and Israeli military bombing of Iran, the cyber domain becomes a channel for asymmetric response,”...
DNC DNC Revolution
August 21, 2024Ken Showers
I have not been watching the Democratic National Convention this week, as all my friends keep asking me. However, it occurred to me I ought to peek since I have a security blog to write this week.
As a journalist I have something of the opposite reaction to election years as my peers. Where most of them are content to leave politics alone until elections make the rounds, I will have spent the past few years, and especially the previous few months absolutely inundated with political news, interviewing...