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.

Follow her on Twitter at @MariaKorolov, on Threads at @MariaKorolov, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel.

Latest AI articles

What gives IT leaders pause as they look to integrate agentic AI with legacy infrastructure

What gives IT leaders pause as they look to integrate agentic AI with legacy infrastructure

Feb 26, 2025

Complexity and security are primary concerns but enterprises first have to ensure they have a modern stack.

Can the CIO role prevail over AI?

Can the CIO role prevail over AI?

Sep 4, 2024
Lower-level IT jobs are expected to be the most impacted, or replaced altogether, by AI, but even senior level jobs aren’t immune. CIOs should be worried.
Broadcom’s vision for VMware highlights private clouds, private AI

Broadcom’s vision for VMware highlights private clouds, private AI

Aug 30, 2024
This week’s VMware Explore conference was all about AI, along with an unexpected focus on private clouds.
VMware Cloud Foundation gains AI model store, other updates

VMware Cloud Foundation gains AI model store, other updates

Aug 28, 2024
At the VMware Explore conference this week, Broadcom announced expanded AI support, including a new AI model store for VMware Private AI running on VMware Cloud Foundation.

Latest quantum computing articles

What Microsoft’s error-correction milestone means for usable quantum computing

What Microsoft’s error-correction milestone means for usable quantum computing

Apr 8, 2024

In an achievement claimed to usher in a new era of quantum computing, Microsoft and Quantinuum showcase logical qubits with error rates up to 800 times lower than physical qubits.

Latest Cybersecurity articles

AI agents can find and exploit known vulnerabilities, study shows

AI agents can find and exploit known vulnerabilities, study shows

Jul 2, 2024

In a somewhat chilling revelation, AI agents were able to find and exploit known vulnerabilities, but only under certain conditions, which researchers say indicates they’re not close to being a significant threat – yet.

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5G network slices could be vulnerable to attack, researchers say

May 22, 2023
Configuration errors and device vulnerabilities could allow attackers to move laterally across 5G network slices.
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Insured companies more likely to be ransomware victims, sometimes more than once

May 15, 2023
A recent report found that companies with cyber insurance have been hit by ransomware more than those without it, and sometimes more than once. Although threat actors may not be directly correlating the insurance factor to find targets, one of the reasons for this may be that as insurers require more from companies those able to pay for insurance are also likely to be able to afford bigger ransoms.
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Siemens focuses on zero trust, legacy hardware, supply chain challenges to ensure cybersecurity of internal systems

Apr 25, 2023
Siemens us chief cybersecurity officer Helen Negre discusses how the organization is focusing on zero trust to ensure the security of internal systems across its different lines of business.

Latest Networking articles

Microsoft Entra Suite is late to the SSE pool but will still make waves

Microsoft Entra Suite is late to the SSE pool but will still make waves

Jul 24, 2024

Despite being late to market, Microsoft’s secure service edge (SSE) offering has some advantages, including cost and ties to Microsoft’s identity access management services.

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Cisco adds specializations to its CCNP cert

Sep 10, 2021
NETWORK WORLD–Cisco Certified Network Professional demonstrates understanding of core networking principles plus specialized expertise in an area such as data center, security,and network programmability.
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Network certs 2021: Significant raises for the right ones

Aug 9, 2021
NETWORK WORLD–As employees split their time between the office and working at home, IT skills requirements have shifted to cloud, security, and automation.
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Cisco CCNA certification explained

Jul 21, 2021
Cisco Certified Network Associate is an associate-level certification designed to demonstrate that a candidate understands the fundamentals of networking, including network access, IP connectivity, security basics, and automation and programmability.
Energy company deploys edge devices to improve drilling efficiency

Energy company deploys edge devices to improve drilling efficiency

May 28, 2021
NETWORK WORLD–Stackable Hivecell boxes process data at the edge for real-time decision making and analytics.
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Network training 2021: Businesses grow their own IT expertise to meet new challenges

Jan 18, 2021
NETWORK WORLD–With COVID-19 and a rising need for SASE, SD-WAN and cloud skills, businesses increasingly rely on in-house training to provide hands-on experience.

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latest Appearances

older Awards and Appearances

Judge, 2019 CSO50 awards

Maria is one of the judges of the annual CSO50 awards, which recognize 50 organizations for their security project or initiative that demonstrates outstanding business value and thought leadership.

Judge, Epica Awards

Maria is a member of the jury of the 2018 Epica awards, the only global creative prize judged by journalists.

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

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May 2016: Interviewed by the BCC about how virtual reality will change our lives. Listen to the broadcast hereRead the transcript here.

Sep. 2015: Mentioned in Fortune’s Meet the women shaping our virtual future.

Latest Blog Posts

Editorial Process Outsourcing

Apr 10, 2008
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I don’t see a lot of hits for “editorial process outsourcing” in Google — but this is exactly what we do. Publications have been doing…

Recognized on the street

Mar 26, 2008
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The Culture Matters show aired last week. People could watch me every night at 6:30 p.m., then again the next day around noon. Finally, this…

Riding the elephant

Mar 6, 2008
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I took some time away from work to see some elephants, as long as I was in Thailand. I was with Tim Phillips, editor of…

Speaking in Bangkok

Mar 5, 2008
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Today I gave a talk about global and Asian petfood industry trends at a conference in Bangkok. One of our clients is Petfood Industry magazine,…

Should you be a writer or an editor?

Mar 2, 2008
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A beginning freelancer asked me today whether he should be a writer or an editor — and whether he could do both. At the end…

Cultural wars: the parent trap

Feb 25, 2008
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Last Friday night, a bunch of us journalists slash bloggers slash entrepreneurs — and, in Shanghai, who isn’t these days? — were sitting around talking…