Three shopping days to Christmas

Opinion
Dec 21, 20041 min

Running out of ideas for Christmas? One of my readers, Brian Milovich, gets security tools. Last year, he bought his family members each a one-year anti-virus subscription. This year, he’s getting them firewalls.

Not too sexy. But his logic makes sense–especially when you consider he’s become the de facto home network administrator for his parents and four siblings

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Deb Radcliff is an investigative journalist and analyst focused on computer crime and security. Her work has appeared on Security Boulevard, the SANS Cyber Security Blog, and SC Media, among other outlets. She stood up an analyst program for SANS Institute and ran it for 15 years before joining the Cyber Risk Alliance as strategic analyst on the business intelligence unit. She is author of the popular cyber thriller series, “Breaking Backbones,” available at Amazon.

Deb won two Neal Awards for investigative business reporting. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from San Jose State University.

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