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

10 ways hackers will use machine learning to launch attacks

10 ways hackers will use machine learning to launch attacks

Nov 5, 2024

AI and machine learning are improving cybersecurity, helping human analysts triage threats and close vulnerabilities quicker. But they are also helping threat actors launch bigger, more complex attacks.

Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

Jan 3, 2024
Generative AI has created an unprecedented pace of technological change, but complications of choosing AI vendors have grown in equal measure. So tech leaders need to be equipped with the right questions — and be prepared for answers — to help enterprises prosper.
Upskilling ramps up as gen AI forces enterprises to transform

Upskilling ramps up as gen AI forces enterprises to transform

Dec 13, 2023
As companies race to add generative models into products and workflows, massive investment to upskill workforces on prompt engineering and ethical AI emerges as a top priority.
5 ways to deploy your own large language model

5 ways to deploy your own large language model

Nov 16, 2023
Building a new large language model (LLM) from scratch can cost a company millions — or even hundreds of millions. But there are several ways to deploy customized LLMs that are faster, easier, and, most importantly, cheaper.

Latest quantum computing articles

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A New Type of Network Is on the Rise to Combat the Quantum Threat to Encryption

Jan 10, 2019

“Quantum-proof” encryption algorithms won’t be entirely quantum-proof. Quantum key distribution networks could be the answer.

Latest Cybersecurity articles

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VMware NSX+ centralizes cloud networking and security for multicloud environments

Aug 22, 2023

VMware NSX+ is a new cloud-managed service that enables consistent network operations and centralized security policy creation and enforcement in multicloud environments.

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How attackers sidestep the cyber kill chain

Mar 7, 2022
Many of the most popular cyberattacks don’t follow all the steps of the cyber kill chain, but you have other methods to detect threats.
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Gartner: SSE is SASE minus the SD-WAN

Mar 7, 2022
Security service edge (SSE) bundles a cloud access security broker, secure web gateway and ZTNA, according to Gartner.
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Enterprises Need To Prepare for Broader Cyberwar

Mar 1, 2022
Russia has a long history of using cyberattacks against its enemies.

Latest Networking articles

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VMware combines SASE and edge management in new orchestration platform, announces private 5G service

Aug 22, 2023

News from the VMware Explore conference includes a unified management platform for VMware’s SASE and edge computing stack, along with a new managed private mobile networking service.

latest Awards

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

Venture capitalists prowl Shanghai with sacks of cash

Mar 31, 2007
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It’s not about the money. Yes it is.

Mar 30, 2007
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Why I’m not Hemingway

Mar 28, 2007
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Drinking the night away in Tsinghua beer ville

Mar 28, 2007
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Sex and Sales in Shanghai

Mar 27, 2007
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