Cybersecurity Research & Insights

Explore ISE perspectives on penetration testing, social engineering, AI security, and practical defenses.

The Great Regression: The Security Implications of Removing E2EE from Meta

A Technical and Strategic Analysis of Privacy in the Post-Encryption Era
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Hacker Psychology: Key Motivations to Strengthen Cybersecurity Teams

As of December 2025, I recently obtained my PhD. in forensic psychology. You might be asking yourself, “why would someone in cybersecurity get a degree in forensic psychology?”
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How Psychology Can Help Build a Security Culture

Security trainings are not usually at the forefront of the minds of many organizations. At ISE, we not only prioritize security training for our staff, we offer it for other ...
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The ISEWASP Top 10: 2025

The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) is a global community that champions the cause of application security. OWASP seeks to educate, connect, and empower ...
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How To Upgrade Your Video Meetings

At ISE, we talk a lot about hacking: how hackers think, how they operate, and how to defend against them. I talk about this stuff all day, every day, on camera: in virtual ...
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Wrapping Your Mind Around a Salt Typhoon

Around August 2024, the media began reporting on a troubling hack. The Chinese backed hacking group, Salt Typhoon, had gained persistence in two major Internet Service Provider ...
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Digital Rights Management: The Guardian of the Stream

Let’s imagine that a new movie has just been released online. Movie lovers have been waiting for the release for months, and the creators and distributors of the film are ...
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How to Safely Use Password Managers – Even If They Get Hacked

We’ve all heard it: Passwords should be long, complex, and unique. Long passwords exponentially increase the time it takes for attackers to crack them. Complex passwords—those ...
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The Hacker Ethos, Part I: Challenge Assumptions

In both life and hacking, breaking out of conventional thinking is essential to finding new paths to success. Hackers are masters at non-conformity: hackers think independently, ...
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