Articles on History

Below are my perspectives on History, drawn from my work as a security leader and practitioner.

• Encryption The Past, Present, and Future of the Web's Trust Model
  Observability, short-lived credentials, and active enforcement hold the web's trust model together. Without them, a decade of Certificate Authority failures would've collapsed it. Will those same...
• Malware The History of Fileless Malware - Looking Beyond the Buzzword
  Defenders apply "fileless malware" to various evasion techniques, far beyond its 2001 in-memory definition. Walk through the malware samples from Code Red to PyLoose so we can understand what this...
• Social Engineering Cybersecurity Deception Lessons from World War II
  WWII deception succeeded through ambiguity that paralyzed enemy decisions and false attractiveness that drew attention to the wrong plan. Modern honeypots, honeytokens, and decoy services rely on the...
• Research Education and the Internet: A New Hope
• Research Early History of the World-Wide Web: Origins and Beyond
• Research Early Stages of Soviet and American Radio Broadcasting