Network Encryption: A Double-edged Sword for Cybersecurity
In 2013, less than half of all web traffic was encrypted, according to Google. Today, the rate of network encryption stands at 95%.…
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.
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Latest AI articles
Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption
While AI has steadily worked its way into the enterprise and business vernacular over many years, gen AI has not only become an abrupt and immediate force unto itself, but also an overarching AI accelerant. Not without warning signs, however. Gen AI has the potential to magnify existing risks around data privacy laws that govern how sensitive data is collected, used, shared, and stored. It can also expose companies to…
‘Citizen developer’ success requires strong IT oversight
The quest for end-to-end intelligent automation
‘Reverse ETL’ Can Help Companies Operationalize Data Lakes
Latest quantum computing articles
Latest Cybersecurity articles
Pros and cons of managed SASE
AmerCareRoyal, which provides disposable products for the food service and hospitality industries, is the product of six mergers and acquisitions over the past several years, and its former network security setup couldn’t keep up. Jeff DeSandre, who joined the company as CIO in 2019, wanted an SD-WAN platform that came with more advanced management options and firewalls. After looking at the market, he added threat detection and response capabilities to his wish…
What to expect from SASE certifications
Zero-Trust Model Gains Luster Following Azure Security Flaw
Microsoft Azure Vulnerability ‘Breaks Secure Multitenancy’
Latest Networking articles
Private 5G promising for enterprises, but growth stymied by pandemic, lack of hardware
Private 5G networks promise to offer low latency, high reliability, and support for massive numbers of connected devices, but enterpise deployment has been slower than expected, experts say, due to the pandemic and a slow-to-evolve device ecosystem. IDC reports that the global private LTE and 5G wireless infrastructure market totaled $1.8 billion in revenue in 2021 and will increase to $8.3 billion by 2026, but that spending will grow “slower than expected” in the next couple…
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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
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…
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…