Tag Archive for: Mike Lloyd

On Norman Castles and the Internet

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Dark Reading | March 15, 2019

By RedSeal CTO Dr. Mike Lloyd

When the Normans conquered England, they built castles to maintain security. But where are the castles of the Internet?

I recently had the pleasure of attending the ninth annual Workshop on Internet Economics (WIE) at the University of California, San Diego. It might not seem a likely place to discuss English castles after the Norman Conquest, but that turned out to be a strong analogy for the security challenges of our modern Internet.

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How AI cybersecurity thwarts attacks — and how hackers fight back

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TechTarget  | February 19, 2019

As our digital lives get more automated, integrated and connected, the security risks increase as well; 2018 was full of hacks and privacy scandals, ranging from healthcare breaches to blunders by Facebook and Google.

Cybersecurity is more important than ever, and many experts are using AI to take that security to the next level. For CIOs, the critical questions are: How much security can AI provide, and what should the realistic expectations of AI cybersecurity be?

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The next shift in cyber insurance that brokers need to track in 2019

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Insurance Business America  | January 16, 2019

Ground-shaking earthquakes might topple buildings and displace communities, but they also bear some resemblance to the scale of cyber incidents witnessed in the past year that crippled networks and exposed consumer data, according to one cyber expert.

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Zuckerberg: How He Can Get Facebook Back On Track

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Forbes | December 15, 2018

“Facebook rose to success at a time when most people made clear how little they cared about privacy – we would post anything, and we enjoyed the freedom and the sense of connection,” said Dr. Mike Lloyd, who is the CTO of RedSeal. “Unfortunately, like a vine growing up a building, Facebook has spent years attaching itself to the way people used to behave.  Its business model depends on people remaining incautious, and insensitive to privacy issues. But people are changing as we encounter more of the downsides of social networks.  We are getting more suspicious and less trusting.”

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Scanning for Flaws, Scoring for Security

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Krebs on Security | December 2018

“You can, of course, establish some important things about the quality of a building from a photograph, but it’s no substitute for really being able to inspect it from the inside,” Dr. Mike Lloyd told Dark Reading regarding the Chamber/FICO announcement in October.

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7 Common Breach Disclosure Mistakes

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Dark Reading | December 7, 2018

When a breach happens, speed and clarity are vital, adds Mike Lloyd, CTO at RedSeal. Organizations that have fared badly after a breach have always been the entities that mishandled the disclosure, took too long to disclose, miscommunicated the details, or tried to cover up the issues, he says.

“There is always a surprise factor when you realize someone has broken in, but the better you know your own organization, the faster you can respond,” Lloyd says.

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Building a Cyber Resilience Plan: Insights and Tactics

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Government Technology Insider | November 14, 2018

With Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal CTO

In part one of our discussion with Dr. Mike Lloyd of RedSeal, he shared the steps that form the basis of a cyber resilience plan so that agencies can take to limit – and recover from – the impact of a cyberattack. Continuing the discussion, Lloyd drills deeper into steps any organization can take to become more resilient. 

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Cyber resilience: not just bouncing back, but a strategy for effective cyber defense

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Government Technology Insider | November 8, 2018

With Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal CTO

Most discussions on cybersecurity focus on prevention, but not cyber defense. But, the unfortunate reality is, some attacks will be successful no matter how well you’ve protected your networks. The question then becomes, just how quickly can you get back online and back to business?

For the Government Technology Insider podcast, we asked Dr. Mike Lloyd, Chief Technology Officer for RedSeal about how to achieve “digital resilience” – the ability to prepare for and recover from a cyber attack.

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Using cyber insurance to run virtuous circles around cyber risk

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Computer Fraud & Security Magazine | October 2018

By Dr. Mike Lloyd, Chief Technology Officer

In 2016, the Ponemon Institute, which conducts independent research on privacy, data protection and information security policy, concluded that each of the 383 companies it surveyed had a “26% probability of a material data breach involving 10,000 lost or stolen records” within the “next 24 months”. Work this out over the long term, not for two years but for the projected life of your business and you must accept the certainty of data breach just as you accept the certainty of death and taxes. Breaches will happen. They will happen to you.

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Is AI Resilient Enough for Security?

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SIGNAL Magazine | October 22, 2018

By Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal CTO

Machines need to be hard to fool and reliable under pressure.

Artificial intelligence can be surprisingly fragile. This is especially true in cybersecurity, where AI is touted as the solution to our chronic staffing shortage.

It seems logical. Cybersecurity is awash in data, as our sensors pump facts into our data lakes at staggering rates, while wily adversaries have learned how to hide in plain sight. We have to filter the signal from all that noise. Security has the trifecta of too few people, too much data and a need to find things in that vast data lake. This sounds ideal for AI.

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