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

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).

Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

Aug 24, 2023
Enterprises—and their technology vendors—continue to fall over themselves to add gen AI capabilities to tools and platforms. But moving too fast can expose companies to present and future compliance risks, as well as potential legal liabilities.
Advanced analytics challenges limit analytics, AI benefits

Advanced analytics challenges limit analytics, AI benefits

Aug 23, 2023
Traditional advanced analytics are not going to disappear with the rise of generative AI. Cultural and quality challenges hinder organizations as attention shifts to new trends.
VMware, Nvidia team on enterprise-grade AI platform

VMware, Nvidia team on enterprise-grade AI platform

Aug 22, 2023
VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia will enable enterprises to customize models and run generative AI applications on their own infrastructure in their data centers, at the edge, and in their clouds.

Latest quantum computing articles

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Quantum Computing Could Make Today’s Encryption Obsolete

Jul 19, 2017

Researchers at top university and corporate labs around the world are in a furious race to create the first practical, usable quantum computer. Quantum computers — which use quantum bits, or qubits — are capable of running computations impossible for existing technology. It promises to open up new possibilities in areas like medical research, artificial […]

Latest Cybersecurity articles

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Hybrid mesh firewall platforms gain interest as management challenges intensify

Aug 15, 2023

Different types of firewalls, including hardware, virtual, cloud-native, and firewall as a service, can be deployed and managed from a central interface with a hybrid mesh firewall platform.

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Top Three Use Cases for AI in Cybersecurity

Feb 3, 2022
Artificial intelligence systems can help detect zero-day malware, prioritize threats, and take automated remediation actions.
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Cato adds fine-grained CASB controls to SASE platform

Feb 1, 2022
Adding CASB functionality to Cato’s SASE Cloud architecture is meant to make it easier for enterprises to protect against data breaches and cloud-delivered threats.
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Top 10 outages of 2021

Jan 31, 2022
Cisco-owned network intelligence company ThousandEyes reveals the 10 biggest outages of 2021.

Latest Networking articles

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Flight to cloud drives IaaS networking adoption

Aug 1, 2023

Demand for cloud connects/interconnects is rising as enterprises commit to multicloud and SaaS application environments, and that’s driving greater interest in IaaS cloud networking services, says IDC.

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

Chinese school and Russian Soup

Mar 25, 2004
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Kiska is learning Chinese in school, and seems to be adjusting pretty well. She brings home homework everyday of Chinese words (characters!) she has to…

Q: How do you go from writing for local business publications to national ones?

Oct 15, 2003
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I find that the transition from local business to national business pubs is very straightforward — my husband did it in a few months. Here’s…

Advice about pitching freelance stories to editors

Jul 3, 2003
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To be a successful freelancer, you really have to focus on networking and marketing. I met my primary editor at a financial services convention, and…

Freelance writers don’t get paid much. How do you make a living doing this?

Mar 2, 2003
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Freelancing is not an easy life, but it is possible to make decent money doing it. Unlike fiction writing, whether you either hit it big…

How important is networking to getting a job?

Feb 27, 2003
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When circumstances brought me back to the U.S. after living abroad, I found myself on a farm in western Massachusetts, disconnected from all my former…

About working with editors who change your words

Jan 20, 2003
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A beginning writer asks: My editors keep messing up my stories. How can I keep that from happening? My advice: If your skin is the…