White House creates new cybersecurity agency

USA Today | Feb 10, 2015

“The idea of a cyber-intelligence hub is a good and timely one,” said Mike Lloyd, chief technology officer at RedSeal security analytics company. “Modern cyber-security still has a lot to learn from traditional military strategists, including the central role of a ‘war room’ — a single location where complex flows of data about the fight can be centralized, filtered, compared, mapped out, and acted upon.”

Is your doctor’s office the most dangerous place for data?

AP News | Feb 9, 2015

Encryption programs can be tuned so that even authorized users can view only one person’s account, or a portion of an account record, at a time, said Martin Walter, senior director at cybersecurity firm RedSeal Networks. That makes it harder for an outsider to view or copy a whole stockpile of records.

Anthem Hack: Personal Data Stolen Sells for 10X Price of Stolen Credit Card Numbers

CIO Magazine | Feb 6, 2015

“Compared to credit card information, personally identifiable information and Social Security numbers are worth more than 10x in price on the black market,” says Martin Walter, senior director at RedSeal.

Experts weigh in on Anthem breach, speculate on how attackers broke in

SC Magazine | Feb 5, 2015

Part of the problem Anthem might have been facing is that “large organizations cannot visualize and understand their whole attack surface, and inevitably end up leaving some side door unlocked and overlooked,” Mike Lloyd, CTO of RedSeal, told SCMagazine.com in a Thursday email correspondence.

What the Centcom Twitter Hack Means to You

Government Technology Magazine | Jan 23, 2015

Robert Capps, senior director of customer success at security analytics company RedSeal, said that attacks on social media accounts don’t generally indicate a significant security issue within the attacked organization.

New framework helps companies quantify risk

CSO Magazine | Jan 23, 2015

The World Economic Forum has released a new framework this week that helps companies calculate the risk of cyberattacks. In the framework, created with collaboration of Deloitte, the World Economic Forum admits that there are some challenges involved. For example, there’s a lack of the historical data necessary to estimate the probability of attacks from particular types of attackers for particular industry segments. The lack of good data is also holding back the evolution of a strong cyber insurance market, said Mike Lloyd, CTO at Sunnyvale, Cal.-based RedSeal, Inc.

CEOs Talk 2014 Successes

NBC Chicago | Jan 16, 2015

NBC Chicago talks with Ray Rothrock about RedSeal successes in 2014.

CEOs Give Predictions for 2015

NBC Chicago | Jan 16, 2015

NBC Chicago taps Ray Rothrock to get his 2015 predictions.

US Centcom Twitter hack: ‘More of an embarrassment than a security risk’, says analyst

The Telegraph | Jan 13, 2015

US Central Command’s Twitter and YouTube sites was hacked by Islamic State on Monday. Robert Capps, Senior Director at RedSeal Networks, said hacking a social media site is nothing like attacking a network. “If that happened, then we’ve got a much more difficult problem that we have to deal with,” said Capps.

White House lays out ideas for information sharing

Federal Computer Week | Jan 13, 2015

President Barack Obama sought to spur Congress to action on cybersecurity information-sharing legislation by announcing his own proposal on Jan. 13. Information security specialists welcomed the president’s proposal but said it was only one step toward improving situational awareness in the private sector. “If organizations hope to benefit from timely intelligence information, they will need to understand their own defensive posture and readiness,” said Mike Lloyd, chief technology officer at analytics firm RedSeal, in a statement.