Ashwin Krishnan
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Ashwin Krishnan is the COO of UberKnowledge, a cybersecurity knowledge sharing, training and compliance organization.
As a former vendor hi-tech executive in the cybersecurity and cloud domain he has turned writer, podcaster and speaker. His focus is on simplifying technology trends and complex topics such as security, artificial intelligence and ethics through enduring analogies which he shares on his blog and his talks. Ashwin is the author of “Mobile Security for Dummies,” and as a recognized thought-leader he contributes to a variety of publications, including Entrepreneur Magazine.
Ashwin is a regular host with CISOs on podcasts such as the Cyber Security Dispatch where he bridges the education gap between what the security practitioners need and what the vendors provide; as a tech ethics evangelist he is frequently on main stage at conferences educating and empowering consumers and vendors alike on the role of ethics in tech; his recent speaking engagements include the Smart Home Conference, Fog Computing Congress, and the Global AI Conference.
The opinions expressed in this blog are those of Ashwin Krishnan and do not necessarily represent those of IDG Communications, Inc., its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies.
Do you know who the new Guardians of the Galaxy are? It’s the morally upright CISOs
The digital consumer’s new best friend in large enterprises is the CISO – the custodians of the enterprise assets are now expanding their vision to include your and my data (at least the morally upright and forward-thinking ones)
GDPR is more important than ever: The Cambridge Analytica-Facebook meltdown
Why its critical – existential in fact – for us to do our own “analytica” in this day and age.
What unintended consequences the General Data Protection Regulation could have
Europe's General Data Protection Regulation could have effects you may not have realized watching webinars or listening to the consultants.
GDPR is not just a regulatory framework. It’s also a moral and existential blueprint
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation is a genuine renaissance for data protection – and not just for EU, but for all humanity.
The ‘gig economy’ comes to your data center security – on-demand, obviously!
The current status quo is broken. We can no longer be reactionary – we must be revolutionary.
Why staging a fake attack is only real thing to keep you secure
How the Napa County fires opened my eyes to the readiness - or lack thereof - most of us are to a real disaster, physical or digital.
What too much power in the hands of one means for security
I did not realize so much power given to one employee posed such a security risk.
How companies are ‘stumbling’ into cloud through digital transformation
And what that means to you and me...
You may have the 'right to be forgotten’ – but you still need to know who to ask and what to ask for
What does 'right to be forgotten' from the GDPR mandate really mean? And is there an important step before we get to 'forgotten' that we are glossing over?
Why the ‘Equifax’ breach could be the gift that keeps on giving
While there are many vendors and consultants trying to outdo each other on the how's and why's of the breach, for IT departments who are wondering if they're next, there's a strategy to use this breach to get ahead. But that involves...
A different look at the Equifax fiasco - the human element behind it!
While pseudo-experts and headline seeking vendors are all offering sage advice and peddling solutions, there is a human element behind this - and I contend hundreds of similar enterprises worldwide - that may be at the core of the...
From Equifax to Equi-'enterprise'
By now the Equifax debacle, disaster, ineptitude...has been wildly chastised and 1 in 2 Americans impacted by this have (or should have) taken corrective action. There is a lesson to be learned here not just by you and I as consumers,...
Help – I have identified risk, now what do I do?
As a continuation from our previous article in this series, now that we have identified the two areas of risks being administrators and data, we now focus on what action to take on the 'administrator' risk – both remedial and...
Identify risk in your hybrid cloud – and yes, there's plenty of it!
In the second part of this series, we examine the actual areas of risks in the hybrid cloud journey – and some of them may surprise you. This involves two elements: data and humans.
Ticking bomb #sprawl! 3 ways to combat it now
Understanding how hybrid cloud economics changes behavior – snapshotting in particular – and how that results in unintended security exposure, both on-prem and in the cloud. But first, an easy to understand analogy about home...