Ericka Chickowski

An award-winning writer, Ericka Chickowski specializes in coverage of information technology and business innovation. She has focused on information security for the better part of a decade and regularly writes about the security industry as a contributor to Dark Reading. Chickowski’s perspectives on business and technology have also appeared in dozens of trade and consumer magazines, including Consumers Digest, Entrepreneur, Network Computing and InformationWeek.
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Sep 02, 2019

Every Hour SOCs Run, 15 Minutes Are Wasted on False Positives

New research out in the past few weeks show that false positives and alert fatigue continue ...

Aug 07, 2019

15 Hot Tools To Come Out of Black Hat and Def Con

Security summer camp is upon us as the cybersecurity industry convenes on Las Vegas this ...

Jul 26, 2019

Breach Costs Keep Creeping Upward with Financial Fallout Lasting Years

The cost of data breaches keeps increasing for companies, and new research indicates that ...

Jul 03, 2019

Incident Response Lessons Learned from JPL Cybersecurity Fails

A few weeks ago, the U.S. federal bureaucrats from the NASA Office of the Inspector ...

Jun 26, 2019

5 Cloud Security Concerns That Still Keep Cybersecurity Pros Up at Night

Many cybersecurity leaders today express greater levels of confidence than ever before in ...

Dec 04, 2018

2018 Sees API Breaches Surge With No Relief in Sight

Last year the OWASP Top 10 committee was prophetic in at least one of its inclusions in the ...

Dec 03, 2018

‘Tis the Season—for a Phishing Frenzy

This year’s online holiday shopping season was kicked off to tremendous fanfare, as deal ...

Nov 14, 2018

Comparing the OWASP Top 10 to the Real-World Top 10

Enterprise software is drowning in vulnerabilities and even organizations highly motivated ...

Nov 09, 2018

Cloud Security Rises to Top of 2019 Cybersecurity Budget Priorities

As enterprises look toward the 2019 budget cycle, CISOs and other IT executives are ...

Oct 04, 2018

2018 State of DevOps: Great for Security

The annual State of DevOps report is out for 2018 and the study offered up some very strong ...

Oct 02, 2018

Seven Signs of a Strong Security Culture

The importance of a strong enterprise cybersecurity culture to the overall effectiveness of ...

Sep 04, 2018

5 DevOps Trends CISOs Must Watch

Make no mistake, DevOps trends are catching fire in the enterprise these days and for good ...

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