How SASE uses AI

How SASE uses AI

Apr 18, 2022

Secure access service edge, or SASE, combines networking and security into a cloud-based service, and it’s growing fast. According to Gartner projections,…

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

Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

Jan 3, 2024

In mid-November, OpenAI’s board fired the CEO of the company, Sam Altman, the guy who put ChatGPT on the map and ushered in a new era of corporate AI deployments. Within the next three days, nearly all of the company’s employees said they’d walk out the door, and the fate of OpenAI looked extremely uncertain. Entire businesses have been built on top of OpenAI and its APIs. According to an…

What is a chatbot? Simulating human conversation for service

What is a chatbot? Simulating human conversation for service

Oct 4, 2021
Coupled with artificial intelligence, chatbots are seeing massive growth in use in an expanding array of domains, from customer service to employee interfaces.
What is sentiment analysis? Using NLP and ML to extract meaning

What is sentiment analysis? Using NLP and ML to extract meaning

Sep 9, 2021
Sentiment analysis, which enables companies to determine the emotional value of communications, is now going beyond text analysis to include audio and video.
What is AIOps? Injecting intelligence into IT operations

What is AIOps? Injecting intelligence into IT operations

Sep 2, 2021
Organizations seeking to better monitor IT assets are turning to artificial intelligence to get ahead of performance issues and to automate fixes before negative impacts are felt.

Latest quantum computing articles

Latest Cybersecurity articles

How ChatGPT Can Help and Hinder Data Center Cybersecurity

How ChatGPT Can Help and Hinder Data Center Cybersecurity

Mar 20, 2023

The world changed on Nov. 30, when OpenAI released ChatGPT to an unsuspecting public. Universities scrambled to figure out how to give take-home essays if students could just ask ChatGPT to write it for them. Then ChatGPT passed law school tests, business school tests, and even medical licensing exams. Employees everywhere began using it to create emails, reports, and even write computer code. It’s not perfect and isn’t up to date on current news,…

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SASE Model Proving Value Beyond Remote Work Scenarios

Sep 30, 2021
When the pandemic hit, enterprises rushed to the new cloud-based networking solutions for remote employees. Now it’s being applied to on-prem data centers and WANs.
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Paying Hackers’ Ransom Demands Is Getting Harder

Sep 26, 2021
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a cryptocurrency exchange for its role in facilitating ransomware payments and issued an advisory to private companies against making such payments.
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OMIGOD Vulnerability Exposes Virtual Machines Running Inside Azure

Sep 22, 2021
New Azure-based OMIGOD vulnerability is easy to exploit and has already been attacked by Mirai botnet.

Latest Networking articles

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Who’s selling private 5G and what do you get?

Aug 8, 2022

Private 5G is technology that can be used in local area networks. Not to be confused with the public 5G connectivity offered by telephone companies, private 5G is used in corporate campuses, office buildings, factories and warehouses, event venues, and airports, either instead of or in addition to Wi-Fi. According to an unpublished survey from research firm Forrester, 44% of corporate telecommunications  decision-makers plan to create private 5G networks. Industries with significant private 5G…

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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

How to get started as a foreign correspondent

May 3, 2002
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Looking for outlets to send you abroad is actually the *last* step of a going-overseas process.The first thing is, you need to ask yourself a…

How to get into freelancing

Mar 2, 2002
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I’ve been a freelancer for most of the past ten years, and have also edited the work of many freelancers in various editing jobs. Read…