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

Packaged offerings promise to make AI infrastructure deployment easier

Packaged offerings promise to make AI infrastructure deployment easier

Feb 26, 2025

Cisco, HPE, and other vendors are rolling out enterprise AI packages that bundle GPUs, networking, storage and cooling tech into ready-to-deploy systems.

Weighing the risks of moving too fast with gen AI

Weighing the risks of moving too fast with gen AI

Oct 9, 2024
Jumping on the gen AI bandwagon can backfire, but moving too slow isn’t wise either. Finding the optimum pace relies on a host of factors, starting with a healthy appetite for risk.
23 key gen AI terms and what they really mean

23 key gen AI terms and what they really mean

Sep 25, 2024
From agentic systems to zero-shot prompting, generative AI can feel like a new language. Here are the terms CIOs need to know.
Red Hat delivers AI-optimized Linux platform

Red Hat delivers AI-optimized Linux platform

Sep 5, 2024
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI is aimed at making it easier and cheaper for enterprises to deploy generative AI technologies with open-source tools sets and models.

Latest quantum computing articles

Post-quantum encryption: Crypto flexibility will prepare firms for quantum threat, experts say

Post-quantum encryption: Crypto flexibility will prepare firms for quantum threat, experts say

Aug 7, 2024

NIST standards for quantum-safe encryption are due out this summer. As quantum computing advances, enterprises need to consider their encryption infrastructure and post-quantum security strategies.

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Quantum teleportation brings reliable, super-fast networks a step closer

Jun 6, 2014
Scientists at Delft University in the Netherlands have improved the accuracy of a quantum entanglement-based communication channel from one in 100 million in a previous experiment in Maryland to 100 percent today. The information…

Latest Cybersecurity 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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Gartner: SSE landscape shifts as vendors add more security services

Jul 12, 2023
Vendors are stacking their security service edge (SSE) suites with even more security functions, according to the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant.
How CISOs can balance the risks and benefits of AI

How CISOs can balance the risks and benefits of AI

Jun 27, 2023
Rapid growth and development of AI is pushing the limits of cybersecurity and CISOs must take charge now to be ahead of a range of risks including data leak, compliance and prompt injection attacks.
Cybersecurity in a Post-Quantum World

Cybersecurity in a Post-Quantum World

Jun 7, 2023
Experts agree that future quantum computers will break most current encryption when they become sufficiently powerful. The code to do this – Shor’s algorithm – has already been written. It just needs a powerful enough quantum computer to run on. According to the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a suitable quantum computer will be available by […]

Latest Networking articles

Main Line Health readies networks for ‘at home’ hospitals

Main Line Health readies networks for ‘at home’ hospitals

Aug 21, 2024

Modernizing Main Line Health’s networking, device management, and cybersecurity helped the organization respond to work-from-home mandates and the rise in telehealth and positions it for future ‘hospital at home’ medicine delivery.

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Space is the final frontier for data centers

Jan 18, 2022
Last year marked the first time humanity deployed a conventional data center in space. The HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 – a set of HPE Edgeline Converged EL4000 Edge and HPE ProLiant machines, each with an Nvidia T4 GPU to support AI workloads – was sent to the International Space Station in February of 2021. This is […]
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Supply chain woes forcing more workloads to the cloud

Dec 20, 2021
Chip shortages are driving enterprises to shift applications to the cloud, avoid ad-hoc hardware purchases, and work to improve their equipment forecasting capabilities.
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Cisco CCIE certification explained

Nov 23, 2021
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert demonstrates an advanced understanding of networking principles plus specialized expertise in an area such as enterprise infrastructure, wireless, data center, security, and collaboration.
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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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What to expect from SASE certifications

Sep 16, 2021
NETWORK WORLD–Free and fee-based SASE certifications are cropping up from vendors including Cato Networks, Netskope and Versa Networks. Are they worth the effort?

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

Tempted to cheat on my chosen career

Jun 9, 2008
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I believe that, on average, the sharper your focus, the further you will get in life — whether in your career, your business, your hobbies,…

A busy May

Jun 6, 2008
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Sorry about not posting last month — it was a busy, busy May. The company continues to grow — and new people have to be…

How to invest your money and beat the stock market

Apr 28, 2008
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When people find out that I’m a business journalist, they invariably ask me for stock tips. After all, I’m probably sitting on tons of juicy…

Nostalgic for My Shanghai

Apr 27, 2008
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I’m going to be heading off to the U.S. on July 15 — and coming back in the fall — but I’m already nostalgic for…

One week of Twitter

Apr 25, 2008
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I’ve been using Twitter for about a week now. I keep all the tweets in a column on the side of my browser windows (using…

Summer has come to Shanghai

Apr 25, 2008
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Today I left the house and stepped into what, in Massachusetts, would be considered a pretty hot summer day – 77 degrees Farenheit (25 Celsius).…