Google recently announced a new, all-in-the-cloud gaming service called Stadia. For gaming fans, there's a lot of potential that—fingers crossed—hopefully pans out.

But the design of the system is an implementation of a pattern we use in securing high sensitivity data as well.

Has this pattern's time finally arrived?

An interesting op-ed from Dr. Egginton at John Hopkins University highlights some efforts underway in the US to declare learning to code the equivalent of learning a new language.

Both are important but will they help your cybersecurity career?

A recent survey from RightScale showed a lot of confusion around cloud computing costs. The common take away? Organizations are surprised at how high their cloud bills are. Similarly, the community was surprised at the size of Lyft's commitment to AWS (around 8 million per month).

But the root of this problem isn't what you think.

A recent tweet called out a user's perception about Grammarly, a SaaS-based grammar and writing tool. They accused the service of being predatory (due to it's license) and a keylogger. While the points are off base (but not insanely so), they do raise a bigger issue: the user perception about a service vs the actual privacy risk

I you were just starting to try and understand the cybersecurity problem space, a CEO or CIO working to better grasp the challenges facing your organization, how would the industry look? Would you be able to spend wisely? To make decisions taht would actually improve the security of your organization? My view from RSA 2019 in San Francisco

We rely on some digital services for critical functions around security and privacy. Trusting those services is paramount to their success and ours. But it can be difficult to trust when you don't know what's going on behind the scenes. Gag orders from the courts can amplify those trust issues. The idea of a warrant canary can help to ease your concerns about government and law enforcement snooping but it's far from a perfect solution...

Websites, apps, and even your desktop applications may be tracking a how lot more of your behaviour than you think. The reason in most cases is simply to deliver a better application from a technical perspective. But sometimes, it's more insidious.

You're building out a digital identity for you kids almost from the day they are born. But it's not just you, the clubs they belong to, schools they attend, and sports they play are all contributing. What's the impact to your child? To their digital future?

There has been a significant increase in DNS hijacking attacks over the past couple of months...and why not? It's a simple, direct way for cybercriminals to take over an organizations identity or to intercept critical communications.

You agree to new contracts all the time but you probably don't think of them as contracts, they are simply the "Terms of Service". A recent study found that most of these agreements are essentially unreadable. That sets up a one-sides relationship between the services and their users. Fine for the services, not so much for the users...and we're only just starting to see the impacts of this at scale.