Vickie Miller

You just received an email from your CEO with instructions for an urgent wire transfer from your company’s account. Quick – what’s your next step? Over $1.2 billion has been swindled in the past 12 months from businesses by con artists using this kind of scam.  Business email compromise (BEC) can occur in several ways, but usually ends with a wire transfer of funds.…

In cybersecurity, knowing your adversaries’ techniques and tactics can help you better defend and prevent successful attacks. It’s an important part of your strategy. But when attribution becomes the focus of the story, we risk not examining how an attacker was successful. Looking at a breach from a “whodunit” point of view makes for better headlines and helps sell…

I was recently honored by T.E.N. (Tech Executive Network) as its Information Security Executive^® of the Year for the ISE^® Central Region. I am deeply humbled to win this award, having been chosen from a field of formidable competitors – except they’re not really competitors, they’re my peers. There’s a lot of complexity involved in being a CISO (Chief Information Sec…

So far, 2015 has been a mixed bag. Two traditional January events - the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas and the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland - that are usually bubbly, if not downright effervescent, were a bit flatter this year. Why? Having been pummeled by high-profile security breaches in 2014, business and government leaders are all too…