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If you smell something burning this week don’t be too concerned, it’s probably U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s ears. I really, and I cannot stress this enough, REALLY didn’t want to discuss politics this or any week, but I don’t think we can let such a huge disruption in the security sphere pass by without comment. Operational Security (OPSEC) has been a guiding principle for members of the military since antiquity, and the word has entered the lexicon in...

Alphabet made its largest acquisition yet with a $32 billion deal to buy Wiz, formerly the world’s largest cybersecurity unicorn and now the upcoming face of Google’s cybersecurity ambitions. Alternate blog titles: G-Wiz, or Alphabet, sup? No time to workshop that one I’m afraid as I’m all business to discuss what is likely the biggest news ever for cloud security, or so far at least. Last time we discussed Wiz on this blog, a little more than a year ago, I talked...

I guess someone must have been reading my mind this week at PSA TEC, because a session I attended this week in Denver touched on the topic of our next Security Insights webcast (which is May 29, BTW. Details to follow). That topic – the collaboration among integrators, manufacturers, and end users – was addressed during the State of the Industry panel, a session which I always pay close attention to each year at PSA’s annual gathering of integrators. After all, this annual...

Hollywood just handed out the Oscars for excellence in film. Now it’s the security industry’s turn to showcase its finest. The next few weeks will be jam-packed with awards presentations for security professionals and companies that go above and beyond protecting people and assets. Let’s take a sneak peek at what’s in store on the security awards docket for the rest of the month and into early April. First, the Security Industry Association (SIA) will reveal...

How many warning signs are too many? What will it take to secure our cyber-infrastructure? Was "Hackers" Angelina Jolie’s best movie from the 90s? Important questions are being asked in this week’s Monitoring Matters. If you haven’t guessed I’m thinking a lot about cybersecurity this week, and with good cause! I just finished up a wonderful webcast this week discussing important cyber topics with three whip-smart panelists. You can give it watch for yourself by...

It’s been a busy first month for the Oval Office pen, with President Trump’s arm likely experiencing tennis elbow with all the executive orders he’s signed in the first 30 days of his second term as leader of the free world. Just weeks after sending shockwaves throughout the nation, including in the security industry, by pausing federal grants and loans (though the order was later rescinded), the president made headlines, and heads roll again on Feb. 10, signing proclamations...

This week in industry news, Honeywell honeycombs into three distinct hives full of busy bees, but the buzz around the move indicates a bumble. Last week Honeywell made good on months of speculation that the company would bow to pressures from an activist investor and spun out into three separate divisions. Those divisions are its aerospace, advanced materials, and home automation divisions. So, while this split rolls back the meter a bit on Honeywell’s conglomeration, it is also theoretically...

I never thought that the worlds of the security industry and professional wrestling would ever cross, until this past weekend! My son and I were watching the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Royal Rumble on Saturday, and one of the matches featured a World Heavyweight title match between the champion, Cody Rhodes, and one of the company’s top “villains,” Kevin Owens, aka KO. Well, much to my surprise, as Owens walked down the aisle for his match, he was sporting a t-shirt...

It was the best of times, but mostly it was the worst of times, especially if you were Nvidia this week following the meteoric rise of AI model DeepSeek and the massacre of the tech company’s market value. After releasing its platform less than two years after forming, DeepSeek quickly made waves in the past month gaining a following of techno-faithful singing the praises of the little chat bot that could. Moreover, they did it for a lot less money than competitors like OpenAI...

If you placed a bet that a social media app would be the most talked-about national security topic during Presidential Inauguration week, time to collect your winnings. In the days leading up to Donald Trump’s inauguration for his second nonconsecutive term as U.S. president, TikTok shared the spotlight with the incoming leader of the nation as the app’s China-based owner, ByteDance, was given a Jan. 19 deadline by outgoing President Joe Biden to divest itself of TikTok, based on legislation...