Michael Novinson

Managing Editor, Business, ISMG

Novinson is responsible for covering the vendor and technology landscape. Prior to joining ISMG, he spent four and a half years covering all the major cybersecurity vendors at CRN, with a focus on their programs and offerings for IT service providers. He was recognized for his breaking news coverage of the August 2019 coordinated ransomware attack against local governments in Texas as well as for his continued reporting around the SolarWinds hack in late 2020 and early 2021.

Gen AI: Why Organizations Need to Weaponize the Weapon

Michael Novinson • August 18, 2023

The democratization of AI has proved to be a double-edged sword - both enabling cyberattacks and defending against them. Generative AI can help organizations effectively correlate signals, identify threats and deploy countermeasures before attacks escalate, said Fleming Shi, CTO at Barracuda.

Threat Activity Clusters: Defenders' Way to Fight Ransomware

Michael Novinson • August 18, 2023

Threat clusters can be used to identify patterns of malicious behavior that traditional attribution in cybersecurity strategies could miss. These patterns can be used to develop early warning systems and prioritize resources for investigation and response, said John Shier, field CTO at Sophos.

Enterprise Browser Is More Than Just Security

Michael Novinson • April 28, 2023

Virtual desktop infrastructure has been around for years as an option to secure hardware and systems, but VDI often causes friction for the business and can be unpopular with users. Island is taking on those challenges with its Enterprise Browser by managing everything in the browser.

Netskope Expands Into Cloud Networking With Infiot Purchase

Michael Novinson • August 2, 2022

With its acquisition of Infiot, Netskope now carries both the networking and security technology needed to build a Secure Access Service Edge architecture following. The acquisition of Infiot's platform will allow Netskope customers to address both traditional and emerging SD-WAN use cases.

Profiles in Leadership: Caleb Sima

Michael Novinson • July 11, 2022

It's not the emerging technology or the increasingly complex threat landscape. Instead, people and process are what prove to be consistently the most challenging parts of the job for Caleb Sima, chief security officer at Robinhood.

Move From a Reactive to a Proactive State With Intelligence

Michael Novinson • June 29, 2022

Building out a threat intelligence program is no easy feat for even the largest and most resource-rich organizations, and the challenges are only amplified for smaller companies that have limited budget or personnel, according to AJ Nash, ZeroFox's vice president of threat intelligence.