Current Mentions and Articles In the News
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2024
September 16, 2024: Keri Pearlson authored an article for MIT Sloan Management Review: “How to Build a Cyber Crisis Communications Plan”
September 5, 2024: Stuart Madnick was quoted in an article by CNBC: “Google Searches are Becoming a Bigger Target of Cybercriminals with the Rise of ‘Malvertising'”
August 20, 2024: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for a segment with NPR: “Data Breaches Have Become a Fact of Modern Life. How Concerned Should Americans Be?”
August 17, 2024: A research paper by Stuart Madnick and Nelson Neto was referenced in an article by The Wall Street Journal: “Those Online Accounts You No Longer Use? For Your Own Safety, Get Rid of Them”
August 1, 2024: Keri Pearlson was quoted in an article by the Cambridge Day: “Another Tech Outage is Coming, MIT Expert Says”
July 23, 2024: Stuart Madnick was quoted in an article by CNN: “The Global Tech Outage Showed How We’re Just One Mistake Away from Chaos”
July 19, 2024: Stuart Madnick was quoted in an article by the Boston Globe: “How Errant Keystrokes at CrowdStrike Led to a Global Outage of Microsoft Networks”
July 18, 2024: Keri Pearlson authored an article for the Harvard Business Review: “When Cyberattacks are Inevitable, Focus on Cyber Resilience”
July 12, 2024: Sander Zeijlemaker was a guest columnist for an article in Alliancy: “NIS2 at the Executive Committee: What Essential Actions to Better Manage Supplier Risk?”
July 4, 2024: Keri Pearlson was quoted in an article by CSO: “Kaspersky Software Ban: CISOs Must Move Quickly”
June 26, 2024: Stuart Madnick was quoted in an article by CNBC: “America’s Drinking Water Is Facing Attack, With Links Back to China, Russia and Iran”
June 18, 2024: Keri Pearlson appeared in a video for the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium: “8 AI Security Issues Leaders Should Watch”
June 4, 2024: Stuart Madnick was quoted in an article by SecureWorld: “MIT Report Spotlights Triple Threat Fueling Data Breach Tsunami”
May 31, 2024: Keri Pearlson was quoted in an article by ANA Magazine: “What is Red Teaming?”
May 30, 2024: Keri Pearlson was quoted in an article by Tanium: “Is Your Enterprise ‘Cyber Resilient’? Probably Not. Here’s How Other Boards Fixed That”
May 30, 2024: Keri Pearlson appeared in a video for the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium: “The GenAI Blind Spot Leaders Have Now”
May 30, 2024: Stuart Madnick was quoted in an article by ConsumerAffairs: “Has My Data Been Breached in 2024?”
May 27, 2024: Stuart Madnick was quoted in an article by National Mortgage News: “AI Deepfakes and Mortgages: How Big is the Risk?”
May 22, 2024: Stuart Madnick was quoted in an article by CNBC: “A Microsoft Under Attack From Government and Tech Rivals After ‘Preventable’ Hack Ties Executive Pay to Cyberthreats”
May 19, 2024: Stuart Madnick was quoted in an article in The New York Times: “5 Takeaways From the Spring Art Auctions”
May 16, 2024: Stuart Madnick was quoted in an article by TechTarget: “CIOs Face Obstacles when Scaling Generative AI”
May 9, 2024: Stuart Madnick’s report with Apple was mentioned by The Organization for World Peace: “Over 2.6 Billion Personal Records Exposed Over Past Two Years, Apple Report Warns”
May 7, 2024: Keri Pearlson was spotlighted for her appearance in the Information Security Forum Podcast: “Taking an Ecosystem Approach to Cyber Resilience”
April 30, 2024: Stuart Madnick was quoted in an article by MIT Sloan: “MIT Report Details New Cybersecurity Risks”
April 29, 2024: Keri Pearlson was quoted in an article by IEDP: “Creating Resilience to Cyber Risk”
April 29, 2024: Keri Pearlson was quoted in an article by MIT Sloan Executive Education: “Now Corporate Boards Have Responsibility for Cybersecurity, Too”
April 17, 2024: Stuart Madnick presented a video keynote for the DTEA Conference: “Why Continued Rise of Cyberattacks?”
April 11, 2024: Ranjan Pal and Michael Siegel published an article in Forbes India: “3 Things Industrial Control System Enterprises Should Do to Boost Cyber-resilience”
March 27, 2024: Keri Pearlson was quoted in an article by MIT Sloan: “Cybersecurity Plans Should Center on Resilience”
March 22, 2024: Ranjan Pal published an article in Forbes India: “Considering Insurance to Manage IoT-Driven Catastrophic Cyber-Risk”
March 20, 2024: Ranjan Pal was quoted in an article by (Re)in Asia: “India Cyber Feels Reinsurance Capacity Pinch”
March 19, 2024: Stuart Madnick was quoted in an article for Health Payer Specialist: “New Cyberthreat: Workers Burned Out on Passwords, 2FA, Security Rules”
March 15, 2024: Stuart Madnick published an article in The Wall Street Journal: “If Companies Are More Prepared, Why Are Breaches Still Rising?”
March 13, 2024: Keri Pearlson and Jeffrey Proudfoot published an article in The Wall Street Journal: “As Boards Focus More on Cybersecurity, Are They Missing One of the Biggest Threats?”
March 8, 2024: Angelica Marotta (CAMS Research Affiliate) was interviewed and featured in an article by the European Cyber Security Organization (ECSO): “Queen Bees #1 – Angelica Marotta International Women’s Day Special”
March 3, 2024: Stuart Madnick was quoted in an article by CNBC: “‘Cyber-physical attacks’ fueled by AI are a growing threat, experts say”
February 21, 2024: Keri Pearlson presented in a webinar for MIT Management Executive Education: “Cybersecurity Resiliency is More Than Protection”
February 19, 2024: Stuart Madnick published an article in the Harvard Business Review: “Why Data Breaches Spiked in 2023”
January 17, 2024: Stuart Madnick was quoted in an article by Computer Security Online (CSO): “London Internet Attack Highlights Confusing Hacktivism Movement”
January 10, 2024: Ranjan Pal and Michael Siegel published an article in Forbes India: “Cybersecurity Management Landscape of the Indian Automation Industry”
2023
December 7, 2023: Stuart Madnick published a report sponsored by Apple, “The Continued Threat to Personal Data: Key Factors Behind the 2023 Increase”
December 4, 2023: Ranjan Pal was quoted in an article by the Life Annuity Specialist, “Customers Consider Dumping Carriers Over Data Concerns”
November 3, 2023: Keri Pearlson and Nelson Neto published an article in the World Economic Forum’s Agenda, “An Interview with ChatGPT about Managing the Risks of Generative AI”
October 23, 2023: CAMS Research Staff, Madnick, Marotta, Pal, and Zeijlemaker contributed to the World Economic Forum report, “Response to the White House’s Request on Harmonizing Cybersecurity Regulations”
October 6, 2023: Ranjan Pal, Michael Siegel, Cynthia Zhang, and Bodhibrata Nag published an article in Forbes India: “Why AI in Cybersecurity needs to be part of business strategy to boost resilience”
October 4, 2023. Keri Pearlson published an article in the Harvard Business Review: “A Tool to Help Boards Measure Cyber Resilience”
June 2, 2023: Sander Zeijlemaker, Chris Hetner, and Michael Siegel published an article in the Harvard Business Review: “4 Areas of Cyber Risk that Boards Need to Address”
June 1, 2023: Keri Pearlson was interviewed by Tanium in an article: “5 Ways Board Can Improve their Cybersecurity Governance”
May 17, 2023: Stuart Madnick was quoted in a Silicon Angle article: “CIO’s relationship with AI is complicated, but they have hopes for a promising future”.
May 16, 2034: Stuart Madnick was quoted in a Silicon Angle article: “We need more breach transparency, but a lot of obstacles are in the way”
May 15, 2023: Stuart Madnick was featured in the WSJ Printed Newspaper, in a piece on page 29 and 32 titled “A Tool for Hackers”
May 14, 2023: Stuart Madnick was quoted in a Wall Street Journal Article, “How AI Will Change the Workplace”
May 8, 2023: Ranjan Pal published an article in Forbes India: “How Insurance-Linked Securities can improve cyber-security in India”
May 4, 2023: Keman Huang, Xiaoqing Wang, William Wei, and Stuart Madnick published an HBR article: “The Devastating Business Impacts of a Cyber Breach”
May 2, 2023: Keri Pearlson and CAMS Member Lucia Milica Stacy published an HBR article: “Boards are Having the Wrong Conversations about Cybersecurity”
April 24, 2023: Stuart Madnick published an article in the Harvard Business Review: “Cyber Thieves are Getting More Creative”
April 21, 2023: Michael Coden published an article in CyberScoop: “MIT and Stanford researchers develop operating systems with one major promise: Resisting Ransomware
April 14, 2023: Ranjan Pal published an article in Forbes India, “5 Ways Indian Medical Administrations can Boost Hospital Cyber-Security”
February 14, 2023: Stuart Madnick was quoted in a Wall Street Journal Article: Could Electric Vehicles be Hacked?
February 6, 2023: Ranjan Pal published an article in Forbes India: “How Should Regulators Policy Cyber Insurance for Indian Businesses?”
January 10, 2023: Stuart Madnick was quoted in an article by Inside Higher Ed: “Students and Experts Agree: TikTok Bans are Useless”
January 4, 2023: Stuart Madnick and Keri Pearlson co-authored a paper for the MIT Sloan Management Review: “An Action Plan for Cyber Resilience”
2022
December 2022: Stuart Madnick published a white paper on data breaches and the security of consumer data in corporate systems, servers, and networks: “The Rising Threat to Consumer Data in the Cloud”
December 22, 2022: Stuart Madnick’s ABC News interview was mentioned in the 2022 Highlights: MIT Sloan in the Media: “Shields up: How a Possible Cyberattack Could Affect Americans and how to Prepare”
November 15, 2022: Michael Siegel and Sander Zeijlemaker published an article in the World Economic Forum: “As Cyber Attacks Increase, Here’s how CEOs can improve Cyber Resilience.”
November 11, 2022: Keri Pearlson published a paper in the Harvard Business Review: “Is Your Board Prepared for New Cybersecurity Regulations?”
October 20, 2022: Irving Wladawsky-Berger published a blog article on cybersecurity regulations: “How Should Companies Prepare for the Coming Cybersecurity Regulations?”
October 11, 2022: Stuart Madnick was quoted in an article by MIT Management Sloan School “Guidance for Growth Initiatives: Five Lessons from MIT Sloan Management Review”
October 11, 2022: Stuart Madnick published an article in The Australian: “How to prepare for new security regulations”
October 10, 2022: Keri Pearlson and Stuart Madnick were quoted in a Fortune.com article promoting the new CAMS Executive Education course on board education: “Cybersecurity risks ‘can no longer’ be ignored: MIT Sloan launches course to teach board members prevention tactics”
October 4, 2022: Keri Pearlson published a report in collaboration with CAMS Member Proofpoint: “Cybersecurity: The 2022 Board Perspective”
September 22, 2022: Keri Pearlson was quoted in the MIT Technology Review: “Zero Trust closes the end user gap in cybersecurity”.
September 8, 2022: Keri Pearlson and Stuart Madnick were published in the Wall Street Journal: “How Leaders can Create a Cybersecure Workplace Culture”
September 8, 2022: Stuart Madnick was published in the Wall Street Journal: “Why Companies Need to Start Sharing More Information about Cyberattacks”
August 30, 2022: Keri Pearlson led a LinkedIn Live Event with MIT Sloan Executive Education: “Cybersecurity at All Levels: Build the Right Culture in your Organization.”
August 29, 2022: Stuart Madnick wrote an article for Harvard Business Review: “New Cybersecurity Regulations are Coming. Here’s How to Prepare.”
August 18, 2022: Jeff Proudfoot was interviewed by the Cyber Ways Podcast: “Cybersecurity Regulation and Maturity with Dr. Jeffrey Proudfoot.”
August 4, 2022: Michael Siegel wrote an article for the World Economic Forum: “How to align cyber risk management with business needs”
July 19-21, 2022: Stuart Madnick led a panel session at CDOIQ. Link to the welcome video [here]. Here is a link to Dr. Madnick’s panel, “The CDO Is Responsible for Increasing the Value of the Organization’s Data, Shouldn’t the CDO also worry about Protecting that Data?”
July 6, 2022: Sander Zeijlemaker was interviewed by cyberriskleaders.com on the subject of his new management book: “Managing the Dynamic Nature of Cybersecurity”
June 21, 2022: Stuart Madnick wrote an article for MIT Sloan Management Review: “The Rest of the Cybersecurity Story.”
June 6, 2022: Keri Pearlson and Stuart Madnick wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal: “The Biggest Mistakes Companies Make with Cybersecurity- and How to Avoid Them.”
May 24, 2022: Stuart Madnick and Keri Pearlson were interviewed for a TechTarget article: “MIT Sloan Panelists urge cyber resilience focus.”
May 24, 2022: Stuart Madnick was interviewed by Tech Republic: “The digital workplace requires a Transformation in how people think and work”
May 23, 2022: Stuart Madnick presented a keynote at the MIT CIO Symposium: “Cybersecurity in an Interconnected and Volatile World”
May 23, 2022: Keri Pearlson led a panel at the MIT CIO Symposium: “How Cyber Resilience has become a Key Competitive Advantage”
May 18, 2022: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for The Easy Prey podcast: “Minimizing Damage from Cyberattacks with Stuart Madnick”
April 29, 2022: Sander Zeijlemaker was interviewed for a dutch newspaper Noordhollands Dagblad “Today’s Burglar Has a Laptop”
April 7, 2022: Sander Zeijlemaker was quoted in the Cyber Security Assessment Netherlands 2022: “Investments in cybersecurity are seen as a cost item and are often applied reactively, because they follow on from incidents and are not proactive investments that anticipate new threats”
March 30, 2022: Stuart Madnick was interviewed by Bloomberg: “Hackers’ Path Eased as 600,000 U.S. Cybersecurity Jobs Sit Empty”
March 30, 2022: Stuart Madnick was interviewed by the Irish Independent: “Russia doesn’t need to get stronger, all it needs is to make us look weaker”
March 24, 2022: Michael Siegel was interviewed by GHB News: “How to Protect Yourself from a Potential Russian Cyberattack.”
March 21, 2022: Stuart Madnick was interviewed by Australia Radio: Counterpoint with Amanda Vanstone re. Ukraine and Cyberwar:
March 21, 2022: Stuart Madnick was interviewed by Fox 13 Tampa Bay: “Warnings for Potential Cyberattacks grow as Russian Invasion of Ukraine Persists.”
March 19, 2022: Stuart Madnick wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal: “Why Small Cybersecurity Decisions can Expose Companies to Cyberattacks.”
March 16, 2022: Keri Pearlson interviewed about CAMS research by SXSW: “SXSW Takeover”
March 13, 2022: Stuart Madnick was interviewed by O Globo: “Ukraine Summoned ‘IT Army” Against Russian Cyber Actions, but Moscow Has Not Used its Potential in Current War [English version]” [This Link em Portugues)
March 9, 2022; Stuart Madnick was interviewed by Deutsche Welle (DW): “War in Ukraine Highlights Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructure”
March 7, 2022: Stuart Madnick published an article in Harvard Business Review: “What Russia’s Ongoing Cyberattacks in Ukraine Suggest about the Future of Cyber Warfare”
March 4, 2022: Keri Pearlson published an article in Harvard Business Review: “7 Pressing Cybersecurity Questions Boards Need to Ask”
March 1, 2022: Stuart Madnick was interviewed by Radio Boston: “No, it’s not your boss! What to do when you get a text scam”
Feb 28, 2022: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for a WCBV article: “Concern Growing that Russia Could Launch Cyberattacks against United States, Western Countries.”
Feb 25, 2022: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for an ABC News Video: “Shields Up: How a possible cyberattack could affect Americans and how to prepare.”
2021
December 16, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for a ZD net Security Update video: The threat from hackers is getting worse- and ignorance isn’t an excuse for boardrooms anymore.”
December 15, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for a Boston Globe article: “Emerging ‘Log4j’ software bug spans worldwide worry over cyber attacks”
December 2, 2021: Stuart Madnick and Keman Huang wrote an article for Harvard Business Review: “Navigating Cybersecurity Risks in International Trade.”
November 28, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed by NBC 10 Boston: “MIT Cyber Security Expert Shares Tips to Avoid Holiday Scammers this Monday”
November 22, 2021: Michael Siegel was interviewed for a Washington Post article: “Big Tech is pushing smart home devices as the latest work-from-home tools”
November 17, 2021: Keri Pearlson and Keman Huang wrote an article for MIT Sloan Management Review: “Design for Cybersecurity from the Start”
October 22, 2021:Irving Wladawsky-Berger wrote a blog post: “The Complex Interplay Between Cybersecurity and Regulatory Compliance”
September 30, 2021: Keri Pearlson published a paper in the Harvard Business Review: “How Yahoo Built a Cybersecurity Culture”
September 29, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for Inc.com “How to Protect Yourself from Ransomware Attacks, According to Cybersecurity Experts and Victims”
September 8, 2021: Keri Pearlson joined George Finney for an episode of the Well Aware Security Show: “What Does Cybersecurity Culture Even Mean? With Dr. Keri Pearlson”
August 13, 2021: Irving Wladawsky-Berger wrote a blog post: “The New Cyber Defense Collaborative”
July 26, 2021: Rafi Yahalom was featured in a MarketWatch article: “Criminal commission to review academic research saying trader was wrongfully convicted for rigging Libor”
July 15, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed by CNBC: “Gas Station Owners Sue Colonial Pipeline after Ransomware Attack”
July 8, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for a Newsweek article: “Launching a Ransomware attack Against a Nation is Far Easier than you Think”
July 7, 2021: Michael Siegel presented at MIT Technology Review: “Cyber Risk in a Changed Threat Landscape”
June 21, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for a Newsweek article: “As Classes Resume at UMass Lowell after Cyberattack, MIT Cyber Expert Weighs in.”
June 14, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for The American Prospect: “The Power’s On, For Now.”
June 11, 2021: Keri Pearlson joined The Millennium Alliance CISO Innovator Award winner Patrick Milligan for a discussion on the importance of innovation: Watch the Video Here
June 11, 2021: Keri Pearlson was quoted in a PR Newswire article: “Fighting the Cybersecurity Threat: MIT xPRO Launches New Professional Certification in Cybersecurity in Collaboration with Emeritus.”
June 2, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed by Yahoo! Finance: “The Worst is Yet to Come for Cyber Attacks”
May 25, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed by The Mobilist: “Get Ready for the Mad Max new World of Hijacked Electric Cars and Downed Power Grids”
May 22, 2021: Angelica Marotta and Stuart Madnick won the “2021 Best Paper” award granted by the Award Committee for their paper submitted to the IACIS conference: “Convergence and Divergence of Regulatory Compliance and Cybersecurity”
May 18, 2021: Research on the Capital One data breach conducted by C6 Bank and CAMS presented at RSA 2021 Conference: “A Technical Assessment of the Capital One Data Breach”
May 14, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed about the Colonial Pipeline Cyber Attack for the Russian Language Broadcast voice of America : “How did the Ransomware Virus Stop a Key Pipeline?” English-Captioned Video English Translation Text
May 13, 2021: Keman Huang, Keri Pearlson, and Stuart Madnick published a paper in the Harvard Business Review: “Is Third-Party Software Leaving you Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks?”
May 8, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for an article for the University of North Carolina: “Despite NFT’s, some small sports cards dealers are doing it the old-fashioned way.”
April 30, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for an article in USA Today: “Fact Check: Hackers using visually similar characters to deceive in phishing schemes”
April 3, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for an article in The Athletic: “Blockchain, crypto, and NFTs are the risky ‘next generation of value creation’ in sports”
March 17, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for a yahoo!finance article: “Why America will never be safe from cyberattacks?”
March 9, 2021: Keri Pearlson, Brett Thorson, Stuart Madnick, and Michael Coden published a paper in Harvard Business Review: “Cyberattacks Are Inevitable. Is Your Company Prepared?”
March 2, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed by Themobilist.com: “Could Your Electric Vehicle be Sabotaged?”
February 27, 2021: Stuart Madnick was mentioned by an Applause.com article : “Testing Lessons from the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout”
February 25, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for GBH 89.7 radio on the topic of: “Cybersecurity Risks Arising from COVID-19 Pandemic”
February 23, 2021: Stuart Madnick wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal: “More ‘Side-Door’ Hacks are Coming. Here is how Businesses can Prepare.”
February 19, 2021: Stuart Madnick, Keri Pearlson, Keman Huang, and Michael Siegel were featured in a Techrepublic article: “4 Ways to Defend Against the Dark Web’s Crime Ecosystem, According to MIT Researchers.”
February 19, 2021: Stuart Madnick was quoted in a Boston Globe article: “Why Didn’t the Massachusetts Vaccine Website Work Better?”
February 19, 2021: Stuart Madnick was interviewed in a podcast by WWL: “Is our Power Grid at Risk of a Cyber Attack?”
2020
December 21, 2020: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for an S&P Global article: “Utilities Vulnerable to Cyber-Attack even if they did not use SolarWinds Software”
December 12, 2020: Angelica Marotta presented at WeB 2020: “Development of a Research Plan to Understand the Role of Compliance in Improving or Hindering Cybersecurity in Organizations”
December 12, 2020: Keman Huang presented at WeB 2020: “A Major Breakdown of International Trade and Next Global Financial Crisis: Could be Caused by Efforts to Prevent Cyberattack on the Web”
December 7, 2020: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for SiliconANGLE: “Cybersecurity 2021: nation-state hacking, network vulnerability, and social media manipulation”
November 24, 2020: Nazli Choucri, Research Scientist and Professor at MIT, was elected as a 2020 fellow by AAAS: “AAAS Announces Leading Scientists Elected as 2020 Fellows”
November 17, 2020: Stuart Madnick was quoted in American Banker: “5 Ways Banks can Guard Against Internal Cyber Threats”
November 16, 2020: Stuart Madnick was quoted in American Banker: “Data-security Lapses Surge in Work-From-Home Era”
October 29, 2020: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for a News 7 Boston: “FBI Warns Ransomware Assault Threatens US Health Care System”
October 27, 2020: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for GBH: Boston’s Local NPR: “Question 1 Again Thrusts Mass. Into Forefront on ‘Right to Repair'”
October 26, 2020: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for a WSJ Video: “How the U.S.- China Fight for TikTok Further Fractures the Internet”
October 26, 2020: Stuart Madnick and Jerry Grochow were published by MIT Sloan: “Is Mass Ballot Question 1 on “motor vehicle mechanical data” about right to repair or theft of your private information… or something else?”
October 19, 2020: Stuart Madnick was published in the Global Policy Journal: Building Global Digital Supply Chain Hub by Cybersecurity Commitment: “Singapore’s Strategic Role in the Digital Age”
October 13, 2020: Stuart Madnick was interview on WCAI Radio: “Questions on The Massachusetts 2020 Ballot”
October 9, 2020: Stuart Madnick presented at the 2020 Energy Ireland Conference: “Protecting Energy Infrastructure from Cyber Attacks”
October 8, 2020: Stuart Madnick spoke at SIBOS’ annual conference: “The Evolution of Cyber Attacks”
October 8, 2020: Keri Pearlson spoke at SIBOS’ annual conference: “Cyber Culture and Risk Management”
September 21, 2020: Keri Pearlson presented at Stamford Innovation Week: “Current Impact of Covid-19 on Cybersecurity”
September 7, 2020: Keri Pearlson was quoted in a CSO article: “10 Value-Adds that CISOS can Deliver”
September 1, 2020: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for a flightglobal.com article: “Air Force Grapples with Vexing Problem of AI Spoofing”
August 28, 2020: Stuart Madnick wrote an article for the Harvard Business Review: “The TikTok Ban Should Worry Every Company”
August 20, 2020: Keri Pearlson was quoted by the MIT Sloan School of Management: “How to Think about Cybersecurity in the Era of COVID-19”
August 18, 2020: Stuart Madnick was a panelist at the MIT CDOIQ 2020: “Ethics, Decisions, and Trust in AI Systems of the Future: What if Humans Can’t Agree?”
August 14, 2020: Stuart Madnick wrote an article for the Harvard Business Review: “A Cyberattack Doesn’t have to Sink Your Stock Price”
August 10, 2020: Keri Pearlson was featured on the Sibos Insider Podcast: “Cyber Cuture and Risk Management”
August 3, 2020: Keri Pearlson published a paper in MIT Sloan Experts: “Cybersecurity and the Coronavirus Chaos”
August 3, 2020: Keri Pearlson was interviewed by Mimecast: “The Role of Executive Training in Building a Cybersecurity Culture”
August 3, 2020: Stuart Madnick was quoted in the Boston Globe: “Trump’s Shakedown of TikTok, in the name of National Security”
July 29, 2020: Keri Pearlson was on a panel for the MIT CIO Digital Learning Series: Episode 2
July 16, 2020: Keri Pearlson was quoted by CIODIVE: “Why Anti-Phishing Exercises Could “Alienate” Employees in Crisis”
July 1, 2020: Stuart Madnick published a paper in the Real Assets Advisor: “The Dark Side of 5G Technology”
June 29, 2020: Keri Pearlson was published by the Enterprisers Project: “3 Ways Leaders can Build a Stronger Security Culture”
June 2, 2020: Stuart Madnick participated in an MIT Sloan Global Programs sponsored Webinar: “What Every Manager Should Know About Cybersecurity”
June 1, 2020: Stuart Madnick was quoted in a Detroit Free Press article: “MSU: We don’t pay Hacker Demanding Ransom, Threatening University over Records”
May 26, 2020: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for an article in the Portland Press Herald: “Scammers Target Maine’s Stressed Unemployment System”
May 7, 2020: Stuart Madnick was featured in an article by NS Medical Devices: “Is Blockchain the Solution as COVID-19 Highlights Medical Device Supply Chain Flaws?
April 21, 2020: CAMS Working paper cited in a Bedrock Automation article: “Identifying and Mitigating Industrial Control System Vulnerabilities”
April 21st, 2020: Stuart Madnick wrote an article for MIT Sloan Experts: “The Dark Side of 5G”
April 10, 2020: Stuart Madnick was featured in an Automation World article “Cybersecurity Lessons from Safety”
April 8, 2020: CAMS research was featured in an Energy Central article: “Cybersecurity: A Systems Approach Through STAMP”
March 6, 2020: Stuart Madnick wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal “Companies Should Stop Telling Employees to Keep Changing Their Passwords”
February 28, 2020: Stuart Madnick was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article “Vatican Advisory Group Issues Call for AI Ethics”
February 15, 2020: Stuart Madnick was interviewed for a MIT Executive Education blog post “What Can We Learn From the Reported China Cyber Attack on Equifax?”
February 14, 2020: Stuart Madnick quoted in an MIT Supply Chain Article: “Five Supply Chain Articles that Deliver Competitive Advantage”
January 23, 2020: Stuart Madnick wrote an article for Harvard Business Review “How to Safeguard Against Cyber Attacks on Utilities”
January 14, 2020: Stuart Madnick interviewed in USA Today “Russians Hacked Ukraine company Burisma at Heart of Trump Impeachment, Cybersecurity Firm says”
January 2020: Stuart Madnick was published in the Sloan Management Review: “Blockchain: Isn’t as Unbreakable as you Think”
2019
November 22, 2019: Stuart Madnick featured in an article on Builtin.com “8 Do’s and Don’ts of Security Architecture”
October 24, 2019: Keri Pearlson interviewed with MIT Sloan’s Christopher Reichert for a podcast: “Keri Pearlson Executive Director of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan”
October 17, 2019 : Stuart Madnick wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal: “The Ethics of AI: What Happens When Humans Can’t Agree on What is ‘Right’?”
August 1, 2019: Stuart Madnick spoke with SiliconANGLE theCUBE– “If your self-driving car had to choose whom to hit: Ethics questions stump AI”
July 31, 2019: Stuart Madnick interviewed on SiliconANGLE theCUBE in a video podcast- “MIT CDOIQ 2019”
July 24, 2019: Stuart Madnick quoted in SD Times- “Report: The Costs of Data Breaches Are Rising”
July 24, 2019: Stuart Madnick and Shaharyar Khan discussed cybersafety with the MIT Energy Initiative podcast- “Cybersafety”
July 15, 2019: Stuart Madnick, Michael Siegel, Keri Pearlson, and Keman Huang were published in the Sloan Management Review- “Casting the Dark Web in a New Light”
July 12, 2019: Stuart Madnick appeared in The Economist– “Companies Must Get Ready for a Riskier World“
July 1, 2019: Stuart Madnick quoted in Inside Sources – “FDA Warns Diabetics That Hackers Could Compromise Their Insulin Pumps”
June 28, 2019: Stuart Madnick quoted in Tech Target – “Build a proactive cybersecurity approach that delivers”
2019: Stuart Madnick quoted in Forbes – “Cybersecurity Trailblazers Make Security Intrinsic To Their Business”
June 18, 2019: Stuart Madnick quoted in MIT Sloan website – “The risks and unintended consequences of blockchain”
June 10, 2019: Stuart Madnick interviewed in C6 Medium – “O que os executivos precisam saber sobre cibersegurança” and English translation
June 8, 2019: Stuart Madnick mentioned in Epoca – “Stuart Madnick, Do MIT: ‘O Hacker Tem Mais Vantagens Num Ataque Virtual'” and English translation
June 6, 2019: Stuart Madnick quoted in Yahoo! Finance – “MIT Professor Claims Blockchain Technology Is Not as Secure as Claimed”
June 6, 2019: Stuart Madnick writes an article for The Wall Street Journal – “Blockchain Is Unbreakable? Think Again.”
May 19, 2019: Keman Huang, Sophie Herscovici, and Stuart Madnick write an article for Georgetown Journal of International Affairs – “Cybersecurity for Global Medical Device Supply Chain: The U.S. FDA’s Role”
May 15, 2019: Stuart Madnick quoted in Energy Futures – “Protecting our energy infrastructure”
April 28, 2019. Stuart Madnick quoted in the South China Morning Post’s article “Are Smart Locks Safe? Hear What Security Experts Say and Check out the Latest Models”
April 25, 2019: Stuart Madnick quoted in Inside Sources – “Mueller Report Re-Opens Debate Over Government Access to Tech Encryption Keys”
April 19, 2019: Michael Siegel mentioned in Stay Safe Online – “Industry and Government Experts Discuss Incident Response at NCSA and Nasdaq Cybersecurity Summit at the Nasdaq MarketSite”
April 19, 2019: Stuart Madnick is quoted in Inside Sources – “Mueller Report: Russians Easily Manipulated Social Media, Effortlessly Stole Voter Info”
March 28, 2019: Research Affiliate George Wrenn published an article in Dark Reading – “Artificial Intelligence in Modern Cybersecurity Operations.”
March 26, 2019: Stuart Madnick is quoted in Inside Sources – “Do the EU’s Strict Privacy Rules Increase Cyber Risk?”
2019: Stuart Madnick is interviewed about Internet of Things in Wealth Security Management by Cutter Associates Wealth (page 36)
March 4, 2019: Stuart Madnick is featured in MIT Sloan website – “Blockchain Hype: Irrational Exuberance Redux”
February 28, 2019: Stuart Madnick is quoted in Inside Sources – “Cyber Attacks, Not Nukes, May Be North Korea’s Most Dangerous Weapon”
February 26, 2019: Stuart Madnick is quoted in Inside Sources – “Hospitals Are Cyber Criminals’ Newest, Biggest Target”
February 19, 2019: Stuart Madnick is featured in MIT Sloan website – “These are the cyberthreats lurking in your supply chain”
February 14, 2019: Keri Pearlson is featured on NBC Boston – “Take Back Your Privacy: Hiding Your Digital Footprints”
February 1, 2019: Stuart Madnick is quoted in ITPro – “5G security concerns persist with new research pointing to critical flaw”
January 28, 2019: Stuart Madnick and Keri Pearlson are quoted in MIT Sloan website – “Cybersecurity isn’t just for ‘tech people’ anymore. Here’s why.”
January 18, 2019: Stuart Madnick is quoted in Inside Sources – “Should Tech Companies Compromise Users’ Personal Privacy for Better Cybersecurity?”
January 18, 2019: Mohammad Jalali writes an article for The Hill – “Health-care sector is far too vulnerable to cybersecurity threats”
January 4, 2019: Stuart Madnick, Simon Johnson, and Keman Huang write an article for Harvard Business Review – “What Countries and Companies Can Do When Trade and Cybersecurity Overlap”
2018
November 7, 2018: Mohammad Jalali interviewed in MIT Sloan Newsroom – “8 Steps to a Stronger Cybersecurity Strategy”
November 2, 2018: Stuart Madnick quoted in Inside Sources – “Think Tank Gives Swing States an ‘F’ For Elections Security”
October 24, 2018: Keri Pearlson quoted in Tech Target – “Cybersecurity culture: Arrow in CIOs’ quiver to fight cyberthreats”
October 8, 2018: Mohammad Jalali writes an article for MIT Sloan Management Review – “The Trouble With Cybersecurity Management”
October 4, 2018: Keri Pearlson pictured in CREDC News – “2018 CREDC Industry Workshop Impresses Attendees”
October 2, 2018: Stuart Madnick quoted in Illuminating Engineering Society – “Will connected lighting’s security story have a happy ending?”
October 1, 2018: Stuart Madnick quoted in PYMTS.com – “Big Banks See Uptick In Cyberattack Attempts”
September 6, 2018: Stuart Madnick quoted in Inside Sources – “Federal Agencies Are Woefully Unprepared for Cyberattacks, Experts Say”
August 23, 2018: Stuart Madnick quoted in Inside Sources – “Oops. DNC Cyber Attack Backtrack Casts Doubt on Midterms’ Security”
August 22, 2018: Stuart Madnick quoted in Mashable – “Instagram hacks raise questions about its 2FA Security”
August 22, 2018: Stuart Madnick quoted in Inverse – “With 5G, Cybersecurity Researchers See a Hotbed of Security Risks”
August 8, 2018: Stuart Madnick quoted in Inside Sources – “FCC Denies Cyber Attack Ever Happened, But the Evidence Isn’t Clear-Cut”
June 30, 2018: Stuart Madnick quoted in the Straits Times – “As tech evolves, so do security needs”
June 9, 2018: Stuart Madnick speaks on “What Every Manager Should Know about Cybersecurity” at the MIT Sloan Reunion 2018. Watch the full video of his talk here.
May 29, 2018: Stuart Madnick writes an article for The Wall Street Journal – “How Companies Can Create a Cybersafe Culture at Work”
May 23, 2018: Stuart Madnick and Keman Huang were quoted in the MIT Sloan Newsroom about GDPR – “What to watch after GDPR’s Rollout”
May 22, 2018: Stuart Madnick attending the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. You can watch the video of his panel here, on YouTube. The title of the panel was CIO’s Role in C-level Cybersecurity Leadership.
April 25, 2018: Mohammad Jalali writes a piece for The Conversation about the importance of cybersecurity in hospitals – “Defending hospitals against life-threatening cyberattacks”
February 12, 2018: Stuart Madnick presents at ARC Industry Forum Orlando 2018 – “Cyber Threats to Smart Cities, Or “Smart Cities” Can Be Dumb”
January 16, 2018: Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan’s IAP is announced in MIT Sloan News – “MIT Sloan to Host “Think Security” Event Focused on Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity”
January 3, 2018: Stuart Madnick is quoted in BBC News – “The labs that protect against online warfare”
2017
December 13, 2017: Stuart Madnick gives a webinar for MIT Sloan Alumni Online – “What Every Manager Should Know About Cybersecurity”
December 11, 2017: Stuart Madnick quoted in Payments News – “Data Dive Christmas Carol Edition: Bills, Bitcoin And Banks”
December 3, 2017: Stuart Madnick quoted in the Wall Street Journal – “Banks Build Line of Defense for Doomsday Cyberattack”
November 29, 2017: Stuart Madnick quoted in Quartz – “The US could be on the verge of dismantling digital privacy as we know it”
November 9, 2017: Stuart Madnick Quoted in Information Age – “Most women have decided against a career in cyber security before they’re 16 “
November 9, 2017: Stuart Madnick quoted in Computer Business Review – “Nearly 80% of young women would NEVER consider career in IT”
November 1, 2017: Stuart Madnick gives an interview with Bloomberg – “Bloomberg Baystate Business: Suffolk Downs and Amazon” Listen to the full interview here. For Professor Madnick’s piece, see 29:00 – 38:00.
October 26, 2017: Michael Siegel quoted in Infosecurity Magazine – “Cybersecurity and the CFO: Risk, Responsibility and Resilience”
September 14, 2017: Stuart Madnick quoted in Infosecurity Magazine – “The Battle for Cybersecurity Talent in America: East Coast vs. West Coast”
September 11, 2017: Stuart Madnick addresses Healthcare Security Forum (HICSS) – “Equifax hack: What cybersecurity pros are saying about the breach”
September 8, 2017: Stuart Madnick quoted in Bob Scheier report for Google on cloud security – “Behind the Growing Confidence in Cloud Security”
September 5, 2017: Gregory Falco, CAMS Researcher, featured on MIT’s Home page – “Gregory Falco: Protecting urban infrastructure against cyberterrorism”
August 16, 2017: Stuart Madnick quoted in LifeHacker article – “We asked Five Security Experts if Smart Locks are Ever Safe”
August 3, 2017: Stuart Madnick’s Webinar at Harvard Business Review – “Cybersecurity for the C-Suite”
July 31, 2017: Stuart Madnick quoted in The Wrap – “Did Apple’s Tim Cook Just Sell Out to Chinese Censors?”
July 31, 2017: Mohammad Jalali Column at The Conversation – “How to Boil Down a Pile of Diverse Research Papers into One Cohesive Picture”
July 13, 2017: CAMS research, Professors Stuart Madnick and Nazli Chouri, Research Affiliate Jerry Grochow and other CAMS team members featured in Sloan Magazine – “Battling Cybercrime: MIT Tackles a Global Challenge”
May 2017: Michael Siegel quoted in TechTarget – “Not Investing in Cybersecurity has ‘Inverse ROI”
May 2017: Keri Pearlson quoted in MIT Sloan News – “How to Survive a Hack: Management Trumps Technology”
May 19, 2017: Stuart Madnick quoted in the Boston Globe – “WannaCry fades, but worries remain”
May 10, 2017: Stuart Madnick’s Column at Harvard Business Review – “Preparing for the Cyberattack That Will Knock Out U.S. Power Grids.”
May 8, 2017: Stuart Madnick article in Forbes.com – “Security Surprises Arising from the Internet of Things (IoT)”
Winter 2017: Stuart Madnick interview in Sloan Alumni magazine article about CAMS work : “Taking a Management Approach to Fighting Cybercrime”
April 24, 2017: Sloan and Stuart Madnick in Financial Times China: 应对黑客攻击从MBA抓起
April 6, 2017: Financial Times “MBAs vs hackers: leaders of the future learn to fight cyber crime”
March 15, 2017: CAMS on Panel: “The Internet of Things – Attack Vulnerabilities and Solutions” at Financial Times Cyber Security Summit in Washington, DC
Jan 2017: Stuart Madnick Interview in Sloan Management Review: “What Executives Get Wrong About Cybersecurity”
2016
Oct 5, 2016: Madnick Op Ed in The Conversation: “Should NSA and Cyber Command have separate leadership?”
Oct 3, 2016: Madnick interview in Poets & Quants: “At Cybersecurity Summit, Warnings For Biz, And All”
Sept 2016: Madnick interview for CNBC: “The real and growing threat of cyber crime to corporations”
April 30, 2016: Madnick Interview in Tech Target: “Security of IoT-enabled devices remains low priority for developers”
April 30, 2016: Madnick Interview in Tech Target: “Dark Web: hackers trump good guys in sharing information”
April 30, 2016: Madnick Interview in Tech Target: “MIT Sloan research: CISOs enter the boardroom”
April 20, 2016: Videos: Professor Madnick and Dr. Jalali talk at the MIT Information and Communication Technologies Conference. Watch videos here and here.
March 5, 2016: Video: Michael Siegel talks about cybersecurity at the 20th Annual ARC Industry Forum: Industry in Transition. Watch video
2015
June 29, 2015: Tech Target writes about CAMS and interviews Director Stuart Madnick: “New tactics for improving critical infrastructure cybersecurity pushed by MIT consortium”
June 28, 2015: Writes about CAMS and interviews Director Stuart Madnick: “Innovative Masdar Institute and MIT research targets UAE cyber infrastructure security challenges”
June 25, 2015: CIO Magazine “Solving the unstructured data challenge” – quotes CAMS’s Stuart Madnick Video Interview 1 Video Interview 2
June 2, 2015: International Conference on Computer Security in a Nuclear World: Expert Discussion and Exchange, June 1-5, Vienna, Austria – CAMS invited to present: Cyber Safety: A Systems Thinking and Systems Theory Approach to Managing Cybersecurity Applied to TJX Case – presented by Michael Coden
May 20, 2015: MIT CIO Symposium Cybersecurity New Approaches Assessing and Maximizing Your Protection Presentation and Panel Moderator – CAMS Director Stuart Madnick View Video of Professor Madnick’s presentation and the panel
April 21, 2015: The Wolves of Vuln Street: The 1st System Dynamics Model of the 0day Market – presented by CAMS Associate Director Michael Siegel, and Katie Moussouris of HackerOne
March 18, 2015: Bloomberg Advantage March 12, 2015: CAMS Launched at the “Cybersecurity at MIT” Event
March 11, 2015: CAMS Featured in the Wall Street Journal – to View the Article Click Here
March 4, 2015: features CAMS and CAMS Director Stuart Madnick in article about MIT’s new Cybersecurity Programs – to View the Article Click Here
February 12, 2015: CAMS presents four papers and two industry panels at the ARC Industry Forum
February 11, 2015: CAMS Associate Director Michael Siegel appears on the President’s Executive Plenary panel at the ARC Industry Forum
2014
November 18, 2014: The Hewlett Foundation makes a grant of $15 million to MIT for Cybersecurity Research – Hewlett Foundation Announces $45 Million in Grants to MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley to Establish Major New Academic Centers for Cybersecurity Policy Research
March 17, 2014: Read CAMS Director Professor Stuart Madnick in MarketWatch.com about Target and other breaches – After Target data theft, hackers’ next target is you
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