The definitive account of Stuxnet, read here as an operational case study: how attackers crossed an air gap, borrowed trusted credentials, and made a control room see normal.
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Joel Brenner sets the demand for transparency against the need for secrecy and finds that most institutions have no coherent answer to the collision. “Glass Houses” is less a privacy book than an account of what secrecy now costs, who can still maintain it, and how little of it survives in a world where nearly every action leaves a record somewhere.
FIRAv2 is Falcone International’s online risk assessment for business leaders who want to identify and measure their own exposure before someone else does. This guide covers how to work through it, how to read the score that comes back, and how to turn the result into something your team can act on rather than a document that gets filed.
Falcone International has launched FIRA v2, a free online risk assessment for leaders who want a structured read on their own exposure. Twenty-five questions produce a scored report that names and ranks the weak points rather than describing them in general terms, so the result is something you can act on rather than file.
Phishing and pretexting work because they target people rather than systems — and the people they target most successfully are the ones with authority to move money or grant access. No amount of security spending closes a gap that opens when someone helpful is asked a plausible question. This piece covers the main forms these attacks take, what they cost, and the defenses that hold up in practice.