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SANS Attack Surface Management Solutions Forum 2022: Building Resilience in the Face of Cyber Conflict

SANS Attack Surface Management Solutions Forum 2022: Building Resilience in the Face of Cyber Conflict

Apr 29, 2022
Maria Korolov moderated a panel about what steps organizations can be taking to harden their attack surfaces and enhance their cyber resiliency. 
Informa Webinar: Doing More IT With Less

Informa Webinar: Doing More IT With Less

Oct 27, 2021
Maria Korolov was a panelist at “Doing More IT With Less: Economizing and Innovating in Today’s Enterprise IT Organization,” an Informa virtual event on Wednesday, Oct. 27 sponsored by DarkReading, InformationWeek, Data Center Knowledge, ITProToday, NetworkComputing, and other Informa publications. She spoke on the topic “The practicalities of implementing SASE.”
IDG Zero Trust Webinar

IDG Zero Trust Webinar

Sep 21, 2021
Maria Korolov was a guest on IDG’s zero trust webinar, “VPN vs SSO vs ZTNA — Designing Access for an Anytime, Anywhere World.”
MetaStellar Interview: How we launched in a pandemic

MetaStellar Interview: How we launched in a pandemic

Aug 5, 2021
Maria Korolov talks with the co-hosts of Long-Lost Friends, a show on the MetaStellar YouTube channel, about how MetaStellar was launched.
BrightTalk cybersecurity panel

BrightTalk cybersecurity panel

Oct 23, 2020
On Oct. 13, Maria Korolov moderated a BrightTalk panel, “Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Cyberattacks During Global Disruption.”  Watch the webinar on-demand here.

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

AI workloads set to transform enterprise networks

AI workloads set to transform enterprise networks

Apr 21, 2025

The explosive growth of AI applications is reshaping data center, edge and cloud networks.

Red Hat’s AI portfolio evolves to address enterprise deployment challenges

Red Hat’s AI portfolio evolves to address enterprise deployment challenges

Mar 26, 2025
Red Hat has expanded its AI portfolio with tools designed to simplify the transition from experimentation to production environments.
5 top business use cases for AI agents

5 top business use cases for AI agents

Mar 19, 2025
AI agents are poised to transform the enterprise landscape, from automating mundane tasks to driving customer service and innovation. But having strong guardrails in place will be key to success.
SUSE expands AI tools to control workloads, LLM usage

SUSE expands AI tools to control workloads, LLM usage

Mar 13, 2025
SUSE expanded its nascent AI platform with a small selections of tools and capabilities, and a partnership with Infosys

Latest quantum computing articles

DARPA backs multiple quantum paths in benchmarking initiative

DARPA backs multiple quantum paths in benchmarking initiative

Apr 7, 2025

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected 15 quantum computing companies to help bring quantum computing closer, and is spending millions on the project.

Amazon claims to cut quantum computing timeline by 5 years with new Ocelot chip

Amazon claims to cut quantum computing timeline by 5 years with new Ocelot chip

Feb 27, 2025
Amazon Ocelot chip will cut error correction overhead by 90% and bring practical quantum computing closer to fruition, but some experts are skeptical
Microsoft braids anyons into topological cubits on new Majorana quantum chip

Microsoft braids anyons into topological cubits on new Majorana quantum chip

Feb 19, 2025
Majorana 1 is the first quantum processor with a topological core, designed to scale to a million qubits on a single chip.
IBM, Microsoft and Boeing mark advances in quantum computing

IBM, Microsoft and Boeing mark advances in quantum computing

Sep 16, 2024
IBM today announced its Quiskit Functions Catalog, a collection of services that are designed to make it easier for enterprise developers to experiment with quantum use cases.

Latest Cybersecurity articles

Breach and attack simulation (BAS) tools buyer’s guide

Breach and attack simulation (BAS) tools buyer’s guide

Dec 18, 2024

From the editors of CSO, this enterprise buyer’s guide helps IT security staff understand what the various breach and attack simulation (BAS) options can do for their organizations and how to choose the right solution. Download the breach and attack simulation (BAS) tools buyer’s guide here.

10 most critical LLM vulnerabilities

10 most critical LLM vulnerabilities

Oct 15, 2024
From prompt injections to model theft, OWASP has identified the most prevalent and impactful vulnerabilities found in AI applications based on large language models (LLMs).
Ransomware recovery: 8 steps to successfully restore from backup

Ransomware recovery: 8 steps to successfully restore from backup

Sep 2, 2024
The best way to recover from a ransomware attack is to have a reliable and fast backup process. Here’s how to do it.
NIST finally settles on quantum-safe crypto standards

NIST finally settles on quantum-safe crypto standards

Aug 13, 2024
After years of review, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has chosen three encryption algorithms as the basis for its post-quantum security strategy.

Latest Networking 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.

VMware Cloud Foundation gains AI model store, other updates

VMware Cloud Foundation gains AI model store, other updates

Aug 28, 2024
At the VMware Explore conference this week, Broadcom announced expanded AI support, including a new AI model store for VMware Private AI running on VMware Cloud Foundation.
VMware upgrades software-defined edge for AI workloads

VMware upgrades software-defined edge for AI workloads

Aug 27, 2024
VMware added connectivity options and traffic-management capabilities to its software-defined edge products to better support generative AI workloads.
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.
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.
Red Hat unveils image mode for its Linux distro

Red Hat unveils image mode for its Linux distro

May 9, 2024
New container image deployment method for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is aimed at helping enterprises streamline operations and management.

latest Awards

ASBPE Awards of Excellence: 2018 Regional Silver Award Winner

ASBPE Awards of Excellence: 2018 Regional Silver Award Winner

Maria Korolov’s CSO article, What is a supply chain attack? Why you should be wary of third-party providers, received silver regional honors from the American Society of Business Press Editors.

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

Where to find low-cost, pre-made covers for spec fic books

Dec 17, 2020
Where to find low-cost, pre-made covers for spec fic books

Pre-made book cover sites offer low-cost, professional-looking covers for independent authors.

Body language master list for writers

Dec 17, 2020
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“Show, don’t tell” is the first lesson of Fiction Writing 101, and one of the easiest and quickest fixes is to replace the emotional adverbs…

Resources for writers

Sep 7, 2020
Resources for writers

Our master list of best resources for writers of fantasy, horror and sci-fi. Writing advice sites Writer’s Knowledge Base:  Huge database of more than 40,000…

MetaStellar site soft launch

Aug 6, 2020
MetaStellar site soft launch

We’ve just started doing the initial design of the website for MetaStellar, our new magazine of speculative fiction. The magazine will officially launch on September…

14 Reasons to Use Google Docs to Write

Aug 3, 2020
14 Reasons to Use Google Docs to Write

I use Google Docs. Most writers use Microsoft Word, Scrivener, or Google Docs to write their novels, with a few other, lesser-known platforms thrown in.…

Writing Advice Sites

Aug 3, 2020
Writing Advice Sites

Our list of great sites for beginning speculative fiction writers. Writer’s Knowledge Base Huge database of more than 40,000 articles about writing. Always my favorite…