On March 6 2019, we hosted a tabletop exercise at Sword & Shield CyberCONNECT in Portland, Oregon. Most information security practitioners have either conducted or…
We are continuously bombarded with commercialized communication – everything is a sales pitch, everything is clickbait, everything is designed to scream for your attention and…
Last week, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office announced that it was fining the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) £200,000 (over $260,000 US) for…

Ariel Robinson recently joined our team at Smooth Sailing Solutions as a consultant and policy strategist. Her background in cognitive science and linguistics, coupled with…
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) is the toughest pro-consumer privacy legislation in the United States. It faces a long road to implementation that will likely see some significant changes before it takes effect on January 1 2020.