CIPHER RIDGE INSIGHTS
Weekly Perspectives on cybersecurity, investigations, technology, and human behavior.
Insider Threat: Psychology, Opportunity, and Risk
Insider threats are not always malicious. See how psychology, opportunity, simple workarounds, and strong security culture shape insider risk.
Beyond the Artifact
Digital evidence can show what happened, but it rarely explains itself. The harder work is connecting technical artifacts to human behavior, testing competing explanations, and knowing where the evidence stops.
Beyond the Artifact explores how psychology strengthens forensic judgment, how Riley v. California reflects the legal evolution of digital evidence, and why AI represents the field’s next major inflection point. Drawing on lessons from my former professor and mentor, Dr. Greg Gogolin, the article considers AI as both a new source of forensic artifacts and a powerful tool for collecting, sorting, and connecting evidence—without replacing the judgment of the examiner.
Your VPN Is Not a Force Field: What That Encrypted Tunnel Actually Protects
VPNs are powerful, but they are not a force field. Learn what VPNs actually protect, where encryption ends, common misconceptions, and how privacy-focused providers differ.
Security Across the Entire Threat Landscape: Why Technology Alone Is Not Enough
It All Begins Here. Explore why modern security requires more than technology. Cipher Ridge examines the role of human judgment, AI, digital investigations, cyber resilience, and the human firewall in protecting organizations across today’s interconnected threat landscape.