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About Wedge Chief Scientist

Husam Kinawi, Chief Scientist Dr. Kinawi has a PhD and MSc in Computer Science from the Universities of Calgary, Canada and London, UK. In 1997, he co-founded Mpower Technologies Inc., a wireless telecommunications software company. In 1999, Dr. Kinawi co-founded ActiveIq.com (NASDAQ: AIQT), a Boston-based e-Business applications firm. Dr. Kinawi has over seventeen years of research and development experience working with industry leaders such as Newbridge (Alcatel), Siemens, United Technologies, and Apple in the areas of distributed information systems, embedded applications and wireless Internet solutions. Dr. Kinawi has also spoken at several major conferences, published several research papers, and is the holder of several patents in the area of mobile and wireless devices.

Paying Ransomware Can Now Get You Sanctioned By the US Department of the Treasury: Here’s How Wedge Can Help!

A big ransomware game changer came down the pipe on October 1st, from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)  as they issued a Ransomware Advisory alerting companies of potential sanctions risks for facilitating ransomware payments.  This has … Continue reading

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AI Automating Cybersecurity in Post-COVID World: Wedge can get you straight to Level 5…

A great article in Venturebeat was recently published that brought up the marked acceleration of using AI in the realm of cybersecurity.  Unfortunately, cybercriminals are ahead of the curve in this regard and are evolving much more quickly in order to take advantage of the … Continue reading

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Popular Anti-Malware Products Are Failing to Recognize Notable Threats: Time to Replace Out With WedgeARP!!

A brief but interesting article happened across my desk that made me pause and ponder the state of the popular and established cybersecurity solutions currently on the market.  Namely, the article from ITProPortal.com  that declared that “Half of anti-malware products fail to … Continue reading

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Wine and Spirits is Not Immune To Ransomware: Real-time Threat Prevention is Key to Securing Confidential Information

It’s turning out that Wine and Spirits will be potentially drowning their sorrows in drink as U.S. alcoholic beverages giant Brown-Forman was hit by a cyber attack recently.  In this attack, attributed to the Sodinokibi (REvil) ransomware operators, the attackers were found … Continue reading

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Ransomware Partly to Blame for Company Being Forced Into Financial Restructuring: Could Your Firm be Next?

Just a brief blog today about the dire results of a ransomware attack that hit foreign exchange company Travelex.  Stemming a ransomware attack that hit the company in December 2019, in conjunction with the current COVID-19 pandemic, the company has been … Continue reading

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Garmin Ransomware Attack: How Malware Had a Massive Effect on Global Positioning Services

An interesting ransomware case affected one of our co-workers recently as he went hiking in the Rocky Mountains.  This being that his Garmin GPS was out of commission as he was trying to navigate himself through the wilderness.  The good … Continue reading

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Strange Measure of Success: Repelling a Ransomware Attack But STILL Having to Pay a Ransom

A very interesting article came across the wire recently that had us wondering how the measure of success has seemingly changed recently; especially as it pertains to preventing malware and, in particular, ransomware.  ZDNet posted an article outlining how Blackbaud, one … Continue reading

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Even AFTER a Ransomware Attack, Hackers Continue to Lurk on the Networks: Another Big Reason to Detect and Block This Activity BEFORE It Happens!

Ransomware continues to be a thorn in everybody’s side, with hackers continuing their unrelenting attacks despite the world being in the midst of a pandemic.  An interesting article from bleeping computer brought to light some interesting information that many organizations are not … Continue reading

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Protecting Your WFH Environment: Keeping Yourself Safe

Vox recently presented a good primer on what to do to secure your work from home (WFH) environment during this pandemic.  As many have experienced, during their hastily required move from the very secure corporate networks to the underwhelmingly secured home … Continue reading

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Why We Agree That the Largest Cyberattack in History Will Happen Within Six Months and How You Can Be the Action Hero That Stops It In the Last Critical Seconds…

This Forbes article sparked my interest as it crossed my desk today.  For one, not many people are willing to stick out their neck to make such bold predictions as Mr. McBride did in his article.  At the same time, the logic … Continue reading

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