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
6 barriers to becoming a data-driven company
It’s no surprise that becoming a data-driven company is at the top of the corporate agenda. A recent IDC whitepaper found that data-savvy companies reported a threefold increase in revenue improvement, almost tripling the likelihood of reduced time to market for new products and services, and more than doubling the probability of enhanced customer satisfaction, profits, and operational efficiency. But according to a January survey of data and information executives from…
AI-fueled search gives more power to the bad guys
Real-time analytics presents challenges to unlock benefits
How ChatGPT Can Help and Hinder Data Center Cybersecurity
Latest quantum computing articles
Commercial quantum networks inch closer to primetime
As commercial availability of quantum computers moves closer to reality, researchers and vendors are investing in efforts to create quantum-secured networks. Quantum networks use entangled photons or other particles to ensure secure communications, but they are not, in and of themselves, used for general communication. Quantum networks are expensive and slow. And though nobody can listen in on the messages without breaking the entanglement of the photons, hackers can still…
Quantum Computing for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Quantum Computing for the Supply Chain – Delivering New Efficiencies
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How Quantum Computing is Supporting Financial Services
Latest Cybersecurity articles
5G network slices could be vulnerable to attack, researchers say
5G promises increased speed, lower latency, and support for a significantly larger number of connected devices. But the growth in devices and in new applications that will ensue also will expand the attack surface, offering new opportunities for malicious actors to take advantage of security gaps. Plus, as with any new technology, there is a great deal of potential for misconfigurations, errors, and unpatched vulnerabilities while companies are still learning…
Insured companies more likely to be ransomware victims, sometimes more than once
Siemens focuses on zero trust, legacy hardware, supply chain challenges to ensure cybersecurity of internal systems
Secure Cloud Environments on a Budget: Focus on the Essentials
Latest Networking articles
5G network slices could be vulnerable to attack, researchers say
5G promises increased speed, lower latency, and support for a significantly larger number of connected devices. But the growth in devices and in new applications that will ensue also will expand the attack surface, offering new opportunities for malicious actors to take advantage of security gaps. Plus, as with any new technology, there is a great deal of potential for misconfigurations, errors, and unpatched vulnerabilities while companies are still learning…
Commercial quantum networks inch closer to primetime
Enterprises turn to single-vendor SASE for ease of manageability
NTT, Palo Alto partner for managed SASE with AIOps
Pros and cons of managed SASE
What to expect from SASE certifications
latest Awards

2020 National Gold Award Winner, ASBPE Awards of Excellence
Maria Korolov’s Network World article, Private 5G keeps Whirlpool driverless vehicles rolling, received top national honors.
latest Appearances
Profile: Sam Whitmore Media Survey
SANS Attack Surface Management Solutions Forum 2022: Building Resilience in the Face of Cyber Conflict
Guest Speaker: VWBPE 2022 Conference
Metaverse presentations: OpenSimulator Community Conference
Informa Webinar: Doing More IT With Less
MetaStellar: Setting up a WordPress website with DreamHost in 15 minutes
IDG Zero Trust Webinar
MetaStellar Interview: How we launched in a pandemic
BrightTalk cybersecurity panel
CIO Magazine New Reality Event
Look Left podcast
IDG Tech Talk: CCPA Revisited
InformaTech’s Cybersecurity Bootcamp
IDG Tech Talk: CCPA
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
Virtual assistant illustration created with Midjourney. Read my Midjourney review here. I’m working on a lot of projects these days. As…
Writing is all about the text. But marketing and promotion is often all about the images. Whether you’re sharing with your audience on Twitter, Facebook,…
A few days ago I wrote about how to use the free online app Miro to plot out a story. That’s all well and good…
A year ago, when the pandemic first hit, I wrote an article for CIO magazine about how to manage software development teams when you can’t…
Last month, I posted an article about a bunch of ways writers can use to beat procrastination. But maybe you want to go deeper on…
Have you ever stared at your screen or typewriter or notebook and couldn’t force yourself to write? You had the time block set aside for…