Ronda Swaney

Freelance Technology Writer

Ronda Swaney is a Business-to-Business (B2B) writer and ghostwriter that specializes in writing exclusively about technology and its business impact for multiple Fortune 100 clients.

Risk Management April 3, 2024

GenAI: The next frontier in AI security threats

3 min read - Threat actors aren’t attacking generative AI (GenAI) at scale yet, but these AI security threats are coming. That prediction comes from the 2024 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index. Here’s a review of the threat intelligence types underpinning that report. Cyber criminals…

Artificial Intelligence March 19, 2024

How AI can be hacked with prompt injection: NIST report

3 min read - The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) closely observes the AI lifecycle, and for good reason. As AI proliferates, so does the discovery and exploitation of AI cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Prompt injection is one such vulnerability that specifically attacks generative…

Government September 11, 2023

Why keep Cybercom and the NSA’s dual-hat arrangement?

4 min read - The dual-hat arrangement, where one person leads both the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command (Cybercom), has been in place since Cybercom’s creation in 2010. What was once touted as temporary 13 years ago now seems established. Will…

Data Protection August 8, 2023

The Forrester Consulting TEI of Guardium Data Protection study: 5 data security lessons

4 min read - Practicality and simplicity: That’s what data security analysts want most from their data protection tools. That’s the essence we gleaned from the Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact (TEI) study commissioned by IBM for its IBM Security Guardium Data Protection product.…

Risk Management June 19, 2023

A history of ransomware and the cybersecurity ecosystem

4 min read - The number and complexity of cybersecurity tools have grown at a dizzying pace in recent decades. As cyber threats like ransomware became more numerous and complex, antivirus and threat management tools expanded to meet these challenges. Security experts now often…

Artificial Intelligence June 13, 2023

ChatGPT and the race to secure your intellectual property

4 min read - ChatGPT reached 100 million users in January 2023, only two months after its release. That’s a record-breaking pace for an app. Numbers at that scale indicate that generative AI — AI that creates new content as text, images, audio and…

Risk Management June 9, 2023

Security awareness training 101: Which employees need it?

4 min read - To understand why you need cybersecurity awareness training, you must first understand employees’ outsized roles in security breaches. “People remain — by far — the weakest link in an organization’s cybersecurity defenses,” noted Verizon on the release of their 2022…

Government June 6, 2023

Will commercial spyware survive Biden’s executive order?

4 min read - On March 27, 2023, reports surfaced that 50 U.S. government employees had been targeted by phone spyware overseas. On the day of that report, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to restrict federal agencies’ use of commercial spyware. The…

Intelligence & Analytics March 30, 2023

2022 industry threat recap: Finance and insurance

5 min read - The finance and insurance sector proved a top target for cybersecurity threats in 2022. The IBM Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2023 found this sector ranked as the second most attacked, with 18.9% of X-Force incident response cases. If, as…

Risk Management February 24, 2023

With 40% of Log4j downloads still vulnerable, security retrofitting needs to be a full-time job

4 min read - Vulnerabilities like Log4j remain responsible for security breaches a full year after the discovery of the flaw. In the months after widespread reporting about the vulnerability, 40% of Log4j downloads remained vulnerable to exploitation. Rapid response — by both security…

Fraud Protection January 12, 2023

How security teams combat disinformation and misinformation

4 min read - “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” That popular quote is often attributed to Mark Twain. But since we’re talking about misinformation and disinformation, you’ll be unsurprised to learn Twain…

Retail December 16, 2022

5 ways to improve holiday retail and wholesale cybersecurity

4 min read - It’s the most wonderful time of the year for retailers and wholesalers since the holidays help boost year-end profits. The National Retail Federation (NRF) predicts 2022 holiday sales will come in 6% to 8% higher than in 2021. But rising…

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Ronda Swaney

GenAI: The next frontier in AI security threats

How AI can be hacked with prompt injection: NIST report

Why keep Cybercom and the NSA’s dual-hat arrangement?

The Forrester Consulting TEI of Guardium Data Protection study: 5 data security lessons

A history of ransomware and the cybersecurity ecosystem

ChatGPT and the race to secure your intellectual property

Security awareness training 101: Which employees need it?

Will commercial spyware survive Biden’s executive order?

2022 industry threat recap: Finance and insurance

With 40% of Log4j downloads still vulnerable, security retrofitting needs to be a full-time job

How security teams combat disinformation and misinformation

5 ways to improve holiday retail and wholesale cybersecurity

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Topic updates