Robert Lemos

Robert Lemos is an award-winning freelance journalist who has covered information security, cybercrime and technology's impact on society for almost two decades. A former research engineer, he's written for Ars Technica, CNET, eWEEK, MIT Technology Review, Threatpost and ZDNet. He won the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2003 for his coverage of the Blaster worm and its impact, and the SANS Institute's Top Cybersecurity Journalists in 2010 and 2014.

Security Lessons Companies Can Learn From the U.S. Elections

The election race for the governorship of the state of Georgia promises to be tight, with current estimates showing that Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp are in...

Five Trends in Attacks on Industrial Control Systems

In May, a new modular malware system—dubbed VPNFilter—began running rampant among small and home office-based routers as well as network-attached storage. More than 500,000 devices in 54 countries were...

Five Ways Government Can Help Businesses Fight Nation-State Attacks

Over the past six months, a relatively unsophisticated group of attackers used a variety of remote access Trojans to attempt to grab banking details from companies—a scheme reminiscent of...

Five Basic Controls Companies Can Implement to Improve Data Hygiene

Many companies are failing to implement the most basic security controls to lock down their networks and data, an oversight that leaves them less able to respond to attacks...

Five Security Defenses Every Containerized Application Needs

With the increase in popularity of agile development and DevOps methodologies, containers have taken off as a way to create easily managed and reproducible software components. Attackers have taken notice,...

Latest Posts

Veritas’s Matt Waxman on Data Protection Strategies

I spoke with Matt Waxman, SVP and GM, Data Protection at Veritas, about essential methods for protecting against cyberattacks. As you survey the cybersecurity...

Avaya at GITEX 2023: Metaverse for Customer Care

Avaya partners with Dubai Electricity and Water Authority to showcase how the metaverse can be used to improve customer service

5 Best AI Video Generators 2023

AI video generators are becoming increasingly popular for creating high-quality videos. Discover the X best AI video generators for 2023.

Cognizant CTO Babak Hodjat on AI and Contextualizing Data

Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI for Cognizant, detailed how companies can use artificial intelligence to align business goals and data analytics for competitive advantage....

Jitterbit CEO George Gallegos on Tech Integration in Enterprise Infrastructure

I spoke with George Gallegos, CEO at Jitterbit, about how automation and integration technology allow the many disparate aspects of enterprise IT to function...