Cynthia Brumfield
Cynthia Brumfield is a veteran communications and technology analyst who is currently focused on cybersecurity. She runs a cybersecurity news destination site, Metacurity.com, consults with companies through her firm DCT-Associates, and is the author of the book published by Wiley, Cybersecurity Risk Management: Mastering the Fundamentals Using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
Google antitrust trial: Pichai concedes that default search boosts market share
Google' star witness in its US antitrust trial, CEO Sundar Pichai, defended the company's business practices but drew attention to the importance of default search contracts as a driver of its market share.
Microsoft’s Nadella: Google could lock up AI-enabled search
As a witness for the prosecution in the Google antitrust trial, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns that Google’s monopoly profits could lock in publishers as AI-enabled search arrives.
Apple’s Eddy Cue testifies in Google’s confusing, secretive antitrust trial
Top Apple executive Eddy Cue testified in the government’s antitrust case against Google, but it’s hard to judge the import of what he said given the shroud of secrecy surrounding the trial.
Gloves come off during day one of Google's antitrust trial
On the first day of Google's antitrust trial, the US Justice Department and 14 co-plaintiff states argued that Google's anticompetitive role in the search engine and search advertising markets threaten the future of the internet....
NIST framework released to widespread praise, but what happens next?
Following a solid year of intensive work, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released yesterday its "final" framework for improving critical infrastructure cybersecurity as mandated under a February 2013...
Adoption, privacy biggest topics as NIST cybersecurity framework nears February deadline
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) held a fifth workshop in Raleigh, North Carolina last week on the comprehensive, preliminary cybersecurity framework mandated under President Obama's February 2012 executive...
NIST seeks input on cybersecurity framework
Starting tomorrow, July 10th, in San Diego, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host the third, and perhaps most important, in a series of workshops aimed at developing a voluntary comprehensive...