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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Aug 03, 2018

Four Cool Tools Expected Out of Black Hat

Security professionals, penetration testers and malware investigators are preparing to get ...

Jul 26, 2018

5 Cryptojacking Consequences CISOs Can't Ignore

The rising tide of criminal schemes to steal compute cycles for mining cryptocurrency has ...

Jul 13, 2018

Five Reasons Enterprises Aren't Getting the Most Out of Security Automation

Automation is enterprise cybersecurity's biggest buzzword as organizations seek to keep pace ...

Jun 21, 2018

Tesla Sabotage Highlights Danger of Insider Threat

Electric car manufacturer Tesla is facing a nightmare insider attack scenario for which too ...

Jun 06, 2018

Three Ways DevOps Teams Can Step Up GitHub Security

Last week the team behind Git, a platform that powers millions of the world's developer code ...

Security Must Adjust as SDN Goes Mainstream

After years of hype, 2018 may finally see the start of the mainstream adoption of ...

May 15, 2018

What's So Scary About GDPR?

We're at less than a month before the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ...

May 01, 2018

Seven Winning DevSecOps Metrics Security Should Track

Last week's DevOps Connect event at RSA Conference brought together some of the leading ...

Apr 10, 2018

Seven Steps Toward Bridging the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Building an effective cybersecurity team is no mean feat. Hiring managers struggle to find ...

Apr 05, 2018

IoT Security Spending Due to Surge as Enterprises Address Big Gaps

Cyber attacks, security incidents and breaches initiated through insecure Internet of Things ...

Mar 12, 2018

Shifting Gears to Cloud-Centric Cybersecurity

As enterprises bridge their adoption patterns for public cloud from isolated pilot projects ...

Mar 08, 2018

SEC Updates Guidance On Disclosing Breaches, Warns Against Insider Trading Based on Cyber Risk

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) put public companies on warning that they ...

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