by Charles Herring | Jan 20, 2021 | blog, InfoSec Business
Cybersecurity expert, Chris Roberts, lamented earlier today in a LinkedIn post that he was offered a cybersecurity award for the low price of $1,200. His outrage prompted me to realize that most cybersecurity professionals and decision makers do not get the...
by Charles Herring | Jan 8, 2021 | In The News, InfoSec Craft, InfoSec How-To
Searching for the TLD of the Solarwinds DGA will quickly reveal any hits reported to Precinct. The TLD to search is avsvmcloud.com. Months of incident data can be searched in moments and full, big-data search can run as a job. Note, there have been no reports of...
by Charles Herring | Nov 24, 2020 | blog, InfoSec Business, InfoSec Craft, Inside WitFoo, Law Enforcement, WitFoo Story
On Emergency Leave on 9/11 In September of 2001, I had been on active duty in the US Navy for 6 years. I was stationed with the World-Famous Golden Dragons of VFA-192 in Atsugi, Japan, running the night shift of the Integrated Weapons Team. On the morning of September...
by Charles Herring | Nov 19, 2020 | blog, InfoSec Craft, InfoSec How-To, WitFoo Story
Bio CHARLES HERRING WitFoo Chief Technology Officer Charles’ dedication to maturing the craft of InfoSec is built on a diverse career path across the industry. He started his career in InfoSec in the US Navy in 2002 serving as the Network Security Officer at the US...
by Charles Herring | Sep 3, 2020 | blog, InfoSec Business, Inside WitFoo, WitFoo Story
By the end of 2015 it was clear to me that the craft of cybersecurity was broken. My mind continuously compared SECOPS with other mature crafts that I had observed and executed, and it bothered me to the point of stealing peace and sleep. I decided I was going to...
