Author: Anthony Lim

X-Force Red, IBM Security’s team of hackers, is hired by a variety of companies to find and help fix vulnerabilities exposing their most important assets to potential attacks. One sector that is increasingly looking into the security of their products is internet of things (IoT) manufacturers that build and sell…

Machine learning (ML) has brought us self-driving cars, machine vision, speech recognition, biometric authentication and the ability to unlock the human genome. But it has also given attackers a variety of new attack surfaces and ways to wreak havoc. Machine learning applications are unlike those that came before them, making…

Cybersecurity risk management is not a purely technical or theoretical endeavor. Information security investments now inform security supply with the aim of reducing data breaches and boosting public perception. However, the demand for greater spending doesn’t necessarily equate to improved defenses. The disconnect between increased resource allocation and actual readiness…

If you work in incident response, you’ll recognize this scenario all too well: It’s Friday night and you just started the book you’ve been keen on reading for a couple of weeks when suddenly, you hear your beeper buzzing. The display reads that the security operations center (SOC) escalated a…