Melih Abdulhayoglu’s Blog | Insights on Cybersecurity

Melih AbdulhayogluJuly 3, 2021

What is Malware/Ransomware? Malware/Ransomware is a legitimate code (within context of the CPU instructions) doing illegitimate things. So Code is legit because CPU understands and executes the code/instructions in this executable file that we call malware/ransomware. However what this code/instructions do is bad stuff for us… What is Malware/Ransomware Problem? You executing/running this malware/ransomware! If […]

Melih AbdulhayogluJuly 3, 2021

There are, in the main, two security postures in Cyber Security: 1-Allow ALL, deny BAD 2-Allow Good, deny REST Today the vast majority of cybersecurity world works with: (1) Allow ALL, deny BAD They try to Deny BAD by trying to detect it by using AI,ML, Heuristic, Behavior Analysis, EDR. I must say, the […]

Melih AbdulhayogluJanuary 10, 2021

Its 10pm night time…..someone knocks on your door…you answer the door….a total stranger……you invite this stranger in…….ask him to sit on your sofa……he is sitting there……it now has been 24 hours….this stranger is still sitting on your sofa… Can you say he is a good guy? Of course not! Absence of bad behavior does NOT […]

Melih AbdulhayogluJanuary 2, 2021

A Software is made up of instruction set, that we call a piece of “Code”. A programmer writes this code and once compiled and packaged becomes, Software/Application. When you launch this Application/Software, the code is sent to CPU for those instructions to execute. For example this piece of Code could be instructing the CPU […]

Melih AbdulhayogluNovember 26, 2020

As a tech incubator and a CEO one of the most important tasks I have is to train, educate and arm people with the ability to continually improve their tasks. How do I teach this to them? Is there a structure, process or formula for this? Over the years, I had to create one. Here […]

Melih AbdulhayogluOctober 31, 2020

EndPoint Protection: (AV, NGAV, EPP etc) Is like your doors, windows, gates that protect your property. It stops unwanted people from coming into your home. What to look for in Endpoint Protection: There are two main types of methods Detection based: These kind of systems have to be able to “identify” bad behaviour to […]

Melih AbdulhayogluSeptember 23, 2020

As human beings, how do we determine if information given to us is good or not? We as the human race “Trust” or “Not Trust” the messenger (channel) of the information. Its more efficient and easier to trust the messenger than analyzing the content. Human brain does not (in the main) analyze the content to […]

Melih AbdulhayogluDecember 4, 2019

You’ve probably encountered some form of home automation already, whether it’s a “hub” like Amazon’s Alexa or just a smart thermostat. But what exactly is home automation? What does it do? And why should you care? Let’s take a look. Automation vs. Control It may sound strange, but not all of the features touted as […]

Melih AbdulhayogluNovember 20, 2019

One of the first things the average person thinks about when a topic like cybersecurity comes up are anti-virus programs. And usually, their thoughts will default to some of the more widely known and used versions. “Just download (and pay for) this program”, so the popular wisdom goes, “and you’ll be safe from viruses and […]

Melih AbdulhayogluNovember 5, 2017

There is an industry that profits big buck$ by selling services for cleaning infected websites. Although on the surface you may not see anything wrong with it, but once you start thinking about incentives and alignment of these companies, you soon realize it ain’t right to kick people when they are down. There can be […]