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Kathleen Moriarty, technology strategist and board advisor, helping companies lead through disruption. Adjunct Professor at Georgetown SCS, also offering two corporate courses on Security Architecture and Architecture for the SMB Market. Formerly as the Chief Technology Officer, Center for Internet Security Kathleen defined and led the technology strategy, integrating emerging technologies. Prior to CIS, Kathleen held a range of positions over 13 years at Dell Technologies, including the Security Innovations Principal in Dell Technologies Office of the CTO and Global Lead Security Architect for EMC Office of the CTO working on ecosystems, standards, risk management and strategy. In her early days with RSA/EMC, she led consulting engagements interfacing with hundreds of organisations on security and risk management, gaining valuable insights, managing risk to business needs. During her tenure in the Dell EMC Office of the CTO, Kathleen had the honor of being appointed and serving two terms as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Security Area Director and as a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group from March 2014-2018. Named in CyberSecurity Ventures, Top 100 Women Fighting Cybercrime. She is a 2020 Tropaia Award Winner, Outstanding Faculty, Georgetown SCS. Keynote speaker, podcast guest, frequent blogger bridging a translation gap for technical content, conference committee member, and quoted on publications such as CNBC and Wired. Kathleen achieved over twenty five years of experience driving positive outcomes across Information Technology Leadership, short and long-term IT Strategy and Vision, Information Security, Risk Management, Incident Handling, Project Management, Large Teams, Process Improvement, and Operations Management in multiple roles with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Hudson Williams, FactSet Research Systems, and PSINet. Kathleen holds a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, as well as, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics from Siena College. Published Work: - Transforming Information Security: Optimizing Five Concurrent Trends to Reduce Resource Drain, July 2020.
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Cloud native architecture is a game changer for security at scale. Whether used on-premises or in the cloud, capabilities to ease the management of IT assets are improving. And while there’s a long way to go in simplifying interfaces and reducing skill-set barriers – this too will come in time.
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Ongoing debates on encryption and privacy highlight the complex dance between industry standards and policy. The outcome of these security and surveillance tussles remains open, reflecting the evolving relationship between technology and governance.
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The prolific use of Artificial Intelligence Large Language Models (LLMs) present new challenges we must address and new questions we must answer. For instance, what do we do when AI is wrong?
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The way we defend our systems is shifting right now thanks to a major change to the Transport Layer Protocol (TLS) taking place between the browser and a new device called the client-facing server.
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Passkeys are appearing more and more in tech news, with support for them increasing. Since many administrators test out new technologies themselves first, we at CIS embarked on a short project to see what happened when an intern with our CTO team had the opportunity to implement passkeys.
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With the number of IoT devices on track to exceed 30 billion within the next couple of years, CIS has created a resource that will help IoT vendors ease the process of building in security by design and by default.
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A practical approach to avoid falling into fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) around post-quantum cryptography breaks down into three steps. Find out more in this guest post from Kathleen Moriarty, CTO of the Center for Internet Security.
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You've likely been hearing about the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Authentication (WebAuthn) and wondering if you're ready to implement it in your environment. Here's everything you need to know!
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In the context of efforts to reduce the attack surface of applications, systems, and networks, developing approaches for assessing software security continues to be an important endeavour. In this article, Kathleen Moriarty maps out different models for software assurance and asks what a role Infor…
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Integration of shared indicators of compromise is very difficult when the responsibility is distributed out to organisations who are then left with the task of turning those indicators into defensive actions or blocking rules. In this article, Kathleen Moriarty shares lessons learned for indicator …
