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The Best Of The Monday Conversation: Everything We Learned In 2019
Monday Meetup // December 23, 2019

Something remarkable happened about halfway through the 2010s or at least something that ought to have been. Except as it turned out, due to the nature of what it was, very few people remarked on it. Americans stopped talking to each other. Well, to be...

Interviews & Exclusives
What Iran Can – And Won’t – Do In A Cyberwar

January 07, 2020
A crippling cyberwar with Iran looms, but maybe not. In an interview with Karen Webster, Samuel S. Visner, director of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), separates fact from fiction as to what Iran can — and won’t — do when it comes to a tech-based response to the killing of a top general. Planes won’t fall out of the sky, and the lights won’t go dark.  However, one thing’s crystal clear: It’s time for U.S. firms to examine where they’re most likely to get hit.

The Best Of The Monday Conversation: Everything We Learned In 2019

December 23, 2019
Something remarkable happened about halfway through the 2010s or at least something that ought to have been. Except as it turned out, due to the nature of what it was,...