IRS Website Crash Reminder of HealthCare.gov Debacle as OMB Pushes Open Source

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FEDWeek | April 20, 2018

Every filing season is a crush for the IRS but this year’s had the added challenge of changes due to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed in December – and increasing e-file returns via integrations with vendors such as TurboTax and H&R Block, along with continued declines in operating budget and personnel. It all culminated on Tax Day when the IRS’s processing systems crashed. The error displayed on its website summed it up: “Planed Outage: April 17, 2018 – December 9999.”

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School for Startups Radio: Ray Rothrock

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School for Startups | April 18, 2018

With Ray Rothrock, Chief Executive Officer

Join host Jim Beach everyday at 2:00pm EST on AMFM247 Radio as he interviews entrepreneurs and great authors that can help you grow your business, or start one. In this episode, he is joined by RedSeal CEO Ray Rothrock, the author of “Digital Resilience,” a non-technical book for management, leaders and really just about anyone interested in getting control of their cyber threat.

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Avoiding Storms While Transitioning to the Cloud

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SIGNAL Magazine | April 9, 2018

By Wayne Lloyd, RedSeal Federal CTO

From an industry perspective there are many advantages to moving aspects of any organization to the cloud. In theory, cloud is more efficient and easier to manage, but organizations like the Defense Department need to make sure they are not bringing along their bad habits and old baggage with them. Legacy networks are hard to understand and have grown out of control in the last few decades. Cloud is as complex as legacy networks, but the difference is who or what is really maintaining them.

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Video: American Dreams – Ray Rothrock and Digital Resilience

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American Dreams | April 5, 2018

By Ray Rothrock, Chief Executive Officer

No one is immune to hacking- including systems not connected to the internet. No matter how much budget to pour into cyber security, its only a matter of time until your company is hacked. This is a principle that we’ve seen emerging in recent years. How should companies respond when they are under attack? How can they mitigate the damage and protect their most sensitive information?

Ray Rothrock is a veteran in the cyber industry and emphasizes in his new book, Digital Resilience, that it’s not enough for a company to have heavy barriers of defense- the hackers will still get inside, what companies need to focus on today is resilience.

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Using Pizza To Understand The Cloud

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Forbes | April 4, 2018

By Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal CTO

It’s a tech evangelist’s worst nightmare. I was forced to explain something complex to a non-technical audience who would rather be doing almost anything else. I found myself in front of a sales force while they were in a vacation mood — possibly involving alcohol. We reward our sales overachievers with a vacation. It’s mostly focused on celebrating their success, but with some light company business thrown in. I was the speaker for a late afternoon session, on the topic of the cloud — and the next item on the agenda was the bar.

My assigned topic was cloud networks — a topic familiar to all, but still fuzzy, just like real clouds. It’s been several years since the famed survey that showed people thought bad weather was a problem for cloud computing.

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NACD Northern California Chapter Elects Ray Rothrock to its Board of Directors

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National Association of Corporate Directors | April 3, 2018

The Northern California Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the advocate for the profession of directorship, has elected Ray Rothrock to its board of directors.

Ray Rothrock is the chairman and CEO of RedSeal, Inc., a company providing enterprises with a network modeling and risk scoring platform that measures and improves resilience to cyber events and network interruptions. He is partner emeritus of tech investment firm Venrock and a member of numerous boards, including Check Point Software Technology (NASDAQ: CHKP) and Roku, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROKU).

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XL Catlin and RedSeal team up for cyber risk resilience tool

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Insurance Business UK | April 2, 2018

XL Catlin and cybersecurity specialist RedSeal have teamed up to create a tool to measure a network’s resilience against cyber risks.

According to a statement by the firms, the tool will help underwriters assess their client’s cyber exposures and help them improve their cybersecurity and benefit from better insurance terms.

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XL Catlin to Offer Network Modeling, Cyber Risk Scoring Platform Through RedSeal

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Insurance Journal | March 28, 2018

XL Catlin and RedSeal have partnered on a new approach to cyber insurance using an objective measurement of a network’s resilience to help underwriters evaluate their clients’ risks over time and help clients continue to improve their cybersecurity and potentially improve their insurance terms.

RedSeal’s cyber risk modeling and and risk scoring platform creates a network model from the inside out, including physical assets, as well as those in public and private cloud environments. RedSeal uses this info to calculate the Digital Resilience Score, a holistic measure of the network’s resilience, similar to a credit worthiness score.

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RedSeal Named Infosec Awards 2018 Winner

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Cyber Defense Magazine | April 14, 2018

RedSeal was named an Infosec Awards 2018 winner for Network Security and Management in Cyber Defense Magazine’s annual review of the hottest, most innovative, best, market leaders, next-generation and cutting edge INFOSEC companies offering incredible products and services – from nearly 3,000 companies who create and offer the most respected information security products and services.

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Russia behind compromise of seven states’ voter registration systems

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SC Magazine | Feb 28, 2018

During the waning days of his administration after he’d order a probe into election interference, the intelligence community reportedly told former President Barack Obama that Russian hackers had compromised voter registration systems or websites in seven states and, though the states were told of the breaches, the administration didn’t divulge who had orchestrated them.

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“Russia – or any bad actor – only needs to find one open door to get into a state’s network. Considering how complex these networks are – with employees on mobile devices, working remotely, etc. – it’s no wonder they snuck in,” said RedSeal CEO Ray Rothrock, author of the book “Digital Resilience: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Cyber Threat?”

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