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ASBPE Awards of Excellence: 2018 Regional Silver Award Winner

ASBPE Awards of Excellence: 2018 Regional Silver Award Winner

Mar 8, 2018
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.

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

What’s a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand

What’s a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand

Apr 7, 2025

Data engineers work for enterprises in various industries to help them manage and store the data they need to operate, and, increasingly, to support their AI initiatives.

Beyond the hype: 4 use cases that show what’s actually working with gen AI

Beyond the hype: 4 use cases that show what’s actually working with gen AI

Feb 19, 2025
The numbers are starting to come in, and many companies report that some gen AI investments are starting to pay off — but not all.
Data center spending to top $1 trillion by 2029 as AI transforms infrastructure

Data center spending to top $1 trillion by 2029 as AI transforms infrastructure

Feb 18, 2025
AI is driving an unprecedented transformation in data centers, with global data center CapEx spending projected to more than double from $430 billion in 2024 to $1.1 trillion by 2029.
Knowledge graphs: the missing link in enterprise AI

Knowledge graphs: the missing link in enterprise AI

Jan 29, 2025
To gain competitive advantage from gen AI, enterprises need to be able to add their own expertise to off-the-shelf systems. Yet standard enterprise data stores aren’t a good fit to train large language models.

Latest quantum computing articles

D-Wave uses quantum to solve real-world problem

D-Wave uses quantum to solve real-world problem

Mar 13, 2025

D-Wave explains how quantum supremacy can be used to handle more than theoretical problems

Error-correction breakthroughs bring quantum computing a step closer

Error-correction breakthroughs bring quantum computing a step closer

Feb 21, 2024
Three startups have announced error-correction breakthroughs that could accelerate enterprise adoption of quantum computing.
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 […]
Commercial quantum networks inch closer to primetime

Commercial quantum networks inch closer to primetime

Mar 23, 2023
The potential for attackers to use quantum computers to crack public key cryptography algorithms is driving research and investment in developing quantum-safe networks.

Latest Cybersecurity articles

10 ways hackers will use machine learning to launch attacks

10 ways hackers will use machine learning to launch attacks

Nov 5, 2024

AI and machine learning are improving cybersecurity, helping human analysts triage threats and close vulnerabilities quicker. But they are also helping threat actors launch bigger, more complex attacks.

Breach and attack simulation tools: Top vendors, key features, how to choose

Breach and attack simulation tools: Top vendors, key features, how to choose

Jun 4, 2024
BAS products simulate attacks to test a company’s defenses against threat vectors. The following guide can help you make the right choice for your organization.
AI governance and cybersecurity certifications: Are they worth it?

AI governance and cybersecurity certifications: Are they worth it?

May 6, 2024
Organizations have started to launch AI certifications in governance and cybersecurity but given how immature the space is and how fast it’s changing, are these certifications worth pursuing?
The state of ransomware: Faster, smarter, and meaner

The state of ransomware: Faster, smarter, and meaner

Mar 25, 2024
The ransomware business hit record highs in 2023 despite falling payment rates, as attackers scaled up the number of attacks and new AI weapons were brought to bear on both sides of the war, promising to make an even bigger impact this year.

Latest Networking articles

Data center growth puts unprecedented pressure on power grids

Data center growth puts unprecedented pressure on power grids

Jan 24, 2025

Data center power demand is spurred by AI and other high-performance computing needs, researchers say.

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5 ways to boost server efficiency

Dec 4, 2023
Right-sizing workloads, upgrading to newer servers, and managing power consumption can help enterprises reach their data center sustainability goals.
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8 top industries for private 5G

Nov 20, 2023
Manufacturing, transportation and logistics lead the way among the top industry verticals for private 5G deployments.
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Hot (and not hot) networking skills

Oct 10, 2023
Flexibility and willingness to learn are prized over specialization. SASE, SD-WAN and ZTNA skills are in demand.
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VMware NSX+ centralizes cloud networking and security for multicloud environments

Aug 22, 2023
VMware NSX+ is a new cloud-managed service that enables consistent network operations and centralized security policy creation and enforcement in multicloud environments.
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VMware combines SASE and edge management in new orchestration platform, announces private 5G service

Aug 22, 2023
News from the VMware Explore conference includes a unified management platform for VMware’s SASE and edge computing stack, along with a new managed private mobile networking service.

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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

Sunday morning writing Mastermind group

Aug 29, 2019
Sunday morning writing Mastermind group

I am putting together a writers’ Mastermind group, to meet Sunday mornings via conference calls, such as Skype or Facebook video. You can read my…

14 reasons why I use Google Docs to write my novels

Aug 27, 2019
14 reasons why I use Google Docs to write my novels

  I use Google Docs. I tried a lot of other platforms — Word, Filemaker, Coda, and a bunch of others — but I like…

New book out, ‘Krim Times’ back on category best seller list

Aug 25, 2019
New book out, ‘Krim Times’ back on category best seller list

The Lost King of Krim, a novella of the Krim virtual world, is out on Amazon and other booksellers. Meanwhile, the series prequel, Krim Times,…

How to have a simple but professional-looking website for around $12 a year

Nov 27, 2018
How to have a simple but professional-looking website for around $12 a year

If you have a small business, and need a website where you can post your hours and contact information, some pictures, and a few articles,…

10 signs a content offer is spam

Nov 21, 2018
10 signs a content offer is spam

As an editor of a couple of different niche online publications, and a writer for some major tech magazines, I get dozens of unsolicited content…

My new computer setup

Nov 1, 2018
My new computer setup

In case you’re wondering what I’ve been doing with myself now that I’m not blogging about OpenSim as much, here’s an update. First, I’m super…