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Dennis Fisher

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Dennis Fisher is an award-winning journalist who has been covering information security and privacy since 2000.

He is one of the co-founders of Threatpost and previously wrote for TechTarget and eWeek, when magazines were still a thing that existed. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Improper Bostonian, Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge, and most of his kids’ English papers.

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1182 articles by Dennis Fisher

Memory Safe: Shamla Naidoo

Shamla Naidoo of Netskope joins Dennis Fisher to discuss her journey from network admin to CISO.

Podcast

Okta Says Breach Affected All Support Customers

Okta officials said that the September intrusion in its customer support system affected every company in the Okta system.

Data Breach, Okta

New AI Guidelines Focus on Safety and Security of Models, Data

New AI guidelines authored by CISA and the UK's NCSC stress the importance of secure design, development, deployment, and operation of AI models and tools.

AI, Government

Decipher Podcast: What We’re Thankful For

Dennis Fisher and Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch talk about some of things in the security community they're thankful for, and a couple of things they're not.

Podcast

Four Threat Groups Targeted Zimbra Collaboration Flaw

Google's Threat Analysis Group has identified four separate campaigns targeting the Zimbra Collaboration vulnerability (CVE-2023-37580) in recent months.

Zimbra, Google