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Andrew Hay’s 2025 Cybersecurity Predictions

As we approach 2025, the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity continues to challenge professionals and organizations alike. Based on observed trends and emerging technologies, here are my predictions for the coming year.

Jupyter Notebook for crt.sh Queries

I created a Jupyter Notebook to query the crt.sh website, dump the results into a pandas data frame, and then printing out the unique list of results to the screen for OSINT investigations.

Tornados, Necessity, and the Evolution of Mitigating Controls

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a tornado (also called a twister, whirlwind, or cyclone) is a violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm and comes into contact with the ground. Tornado intensity is measured by the enhanced Fujita (EF) scale from 0 through 5, based on the amount [ ]

Do You Suffer From Breach Optimism Bias?

Optimism bias is the belief that each of us is more likely to experience good outcomes and less likely to experience bad outcomes. How prevalent is this in the cybersecurity industry? If you're a salty security professional like me, you already know the answer.

Insurance Occurrence Assurance?

The best way to maintain a defensible security posture is to have an information security program that is current, robust, and measurable. An effective information security program will provide far more protection for the operational state of your organization than cyber security insurance alone. To put it another way, insurance is a reactive measure whereas an effective security program is a…

Free SANS Webinar: I Before R Except After IOC

Join Andrew Hay on Wednesday, July 25th, 2018 at 10:30 AM EDT (14:30:00 UTC) for an exciting free SANS Institute Webinar entitled “I” Before “R” Except After IOC. Using actual investigations and research, this session will help attendees better understand the true value of an individual IOC, how to quantify and utilize your collected indicators, and what constitutes an actual incident.

Interviewed on RSAC TV

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Eleanor Dallaway, Editor and Publisher – Infosecurity Magazine, on RSA Conference Television (RSAC TV) last week at the annual RSA Security Conference. In the interview, we spoke of what I had observed on the show floor, the state of the security industry, and I describe my perfect customer in [ ]

Security Beyond The Perimeter

Whether we like it or not, the way we architect, utilize, and secure the networks and systems under our control has changed. When servers were safely tucked away behind corporate firewalls and perimeter-deployed intrusion prevention controls, organizations became complacent and dependent on their host security. Unfortunately, inadequately architected security controls that rely solely on broad [ ]

The Hay CFP Management Method – Part 2

I’ve had a lot of positive feedback from my first post which explained how to create the Trello board to track your Call For Paper (CFP) due dates, submissions, and results. In this post, I’ll explain how to create the cards and populate them with the required data to better manage your CFP pipeline. To start your first [ ]

The Hay CFP Management Method

People often ask me how I manage the vast number of abstracts and security call for papers (CFPs) submissions. So I thought I d create a blog post to explain my process. For lack Continue reading The Hay CFP Management Method The post The Hay CFP Management Method appeared first on LEO Cyber Security .