About Maria Korolov
Maria Korolov is an award-winning tech journalist who covers cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and extended reality.
She’s also a science fiction author and the editor and founder of MetaStellar, an online magazine of speculative fiction, and of Hypergrid Business, one of the world’s top virtual reality blogs.
Contact her at maria@korolov.com to pitch articles or to hire her as writer, editor, or speaker at your event.
Latest AI articles
How GenAI helps entry-level SOC analysts improve their skills
Security operations centers (SOCs) are using generative AI systems to automate repetitive triage and documentation tasks, allowing entry-level security analysts to spend more time on investigations, crafting responses, and developing core skills. It may not be a magic bullet, but the technology can be another useful weapon in the analyst’s arsenal, increasing accuracy, providing a knowledge base, and gathering information quickly and efficiently. GenAI writes prompts, explainers so analysts can…
Assessing and quantifying AI risk: A challenge for enterprises
5 data center predictions: Surging demand and tighter rules squeeze operations
Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection
Latest quantum computing articles
Cybersecurity in a Post-Quantum World
Experts agree that future quantum computers will break most current encryption when they become sufficiently powerful. The code to do this – Shor’s algorithm – has already been written. It just needs a powerful enough quantum computer to run on. According to the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a suitable quantum computer will be available by 2030. The CSA created a quantum-safe security working group in March 2023 and even has…
Quantum Computing for the Supply Chain – Delivering New Efficiencies
How Quantum Computing is Supporting Financial Services
What is Quantum Computing and What Does It Have to Do with Encryption?
Latest Cybersecurity articles
Assessing and quantifying AI risk: A challenge for enterprises
Artificial intelligence can help businesses through automation or by improving existing tasks, but like any technology it comes with risks if not managed well. For those businesses that decided to build their own AI or buy software that has AI embedded in it, assessing its risks is an important step to ensuring compliance and data security. The explosion of generative AI adoption has magnified those and new emerging risks. Generative…
5 areas where zero trust can’t protect your organization
VMware Cloud gains faster ransomware recovery, expanded management capabilities
VMware NSX+ centralizes cloud networking and security for multicloud environments
Latest Networking articles
5 data center predictions: Surging demand and tighter rules squeeze operations
Five key data center trends will impact operators in the coming year, according to the Uptime Institute. The research firm highlighted the top trends – which include tougher sustainability regulations, supply chain impacts from AI, and liquid cooling adoption – in a report released earlier this month. Together these conditions are not only driving innovation but also increasing infrastructure complexity, the institute’s researchers said. Data centers will have to balance reliability, efficiency, emerging technologies,…
VMware NSX+ centralizes cloud networking and security for multicloud environments
VMware combines SASE and edge management in new orchestration platform, announces private 5G service
VMware, Nvidia team on enterprise-grade AI platform
Hybrid mesh firewall platforms gain interest as management challenges intensify
Flight to cloud drives IaaS networking adoption
latest Awards
latest Appearances
older Awards and Appearances
Jan. 2018: Maria Korolov talks with Sine Wave about “Succeeding As A Retailer In Immersive Worlds.”
Dec. 2017: Speaker at Stereopsia conference in Brussels, Belgium. Topic was women in virtual reality. Click here for slides.
Dec. 2017: Speaker at OpenSimulator Community Conference. Topic was a statistical overview of OpenSim development. Click here for slides.
Apr. 2017: Profiled in Viar360’s Women of VR – 35 Ladies Who Are Killing It In Virtual Reality
Aug. 2016: Mentioned in Marie Claire’s Virtual Reality Has a Female Mafia—and They’re Looking for New Recruits
May 2016: Interviewed by the BCC about how virtual reality will change our lives. Listen to the broadcast here. Read the transcript here.
Sep. 2015: Mentioned in Fortune’s Meet the women shaping our virtual future.
Latest Blog Posts
According to WrittenWordMedia’s 2019 author survey, more than 75 percent of successful book authors — those making $60,000 a year or more from their writing…
“Show, don’t tell” is the first lesson of Fiction Writing 101, and one of the easiest and quickest fixes is to replace the emotional adverbs…
Our master list of best resources for writers of fantasy, horror and sci-fi. Writing advice sites Writer’s Knowledge Base: Huge database of more than 40,000…
We’ve just started doing the initial design of the website for MetaStellar, our new magazine of speculative fiction. The magazine will officially launch on September…
I use Google Docs. Most writers use Microsoft Word, Scrivener, or Google Docs to write their novels, with a few other, lesser-known platforms thrown in.…
Our list of great sites for beginning speculative fiction writers. Writer’s Knowledge Base Huge database of more than 40,000 articles about writing. Always my favorite…