Thanks to the slow internet, it looks like it will take me years or probably a few lives before I find out why Ronaldo got that wild haircut. So, while we wait for the page to open, let's take look at Cristiano Ronaldo's crazy kickass career so far.
Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest footballers this generation has seen. He is a global fashion icon, a philanthropist and Lionel Messi's biggest competition. Ronaldo has won five Ballon d'Or awards and is the first player in history to win four European Golden Shoes.
This is not the Ronaldo we need to focus on. We know most of you must have thought that we are talking about Cristiano Ronaldo, but we are talking about the legendary footballer from Brazil, who took home the coveted World Cup in 2002, with his impeccable performance.
The 2002 World Cup, which was held in South Korea and Japan, will always be remembered by football fans for primarily two reasons. First is Brazil's epic victory over Germany by a score of 2-0. Second is Ronaldo (who led the team towards victory) and his infamous haircut. A hairstyle that went viral, and set new standards for some of the most embarrassing and craziest haircuts in the world.
While we thought that it was just a phase, where he went and told his barber to go all out and experiment with his hair; being the legend that Ronaldo is, there was more to this hideous hairstyle that any of us could ever imagine.
*Drumrolls* His haircut was a deliberate and strategic move to distract media from focusing on his leg injury. And as I speak, let's take out a minute to respect and applaud for this guy who not only played with an injured leg but also helped his team lift the fifth title for the country.
Thanks to the slow internet, it looks like it will take me years or probably a few lives before I find out why Ronaldo got that wild haircut. So, while we wait for the page to open, let\'s take look at Cristiano Ronaldo\'s crazy kickass career so far.
Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest footballers this generation has seen. He is a global fashion icon, a philanthropist and Lionel Messi\'s biggest competition. Ronaldo has won five Ballon d\'Or awards and is the first player in history to win four European Golden Shoes.
The 2002 World Cup, which was held in South Korea and Japan, will always be remembered by football fans for primarily two reasons. First is Brazil\'s epic victory over Germany by a score of 2-0. Second is Ronaldo (who led the team towards victory) and his infamous haircut. A hairstyle that went viral, and set new standards for some of the most embarrassing and craziest haircuts in the world.
*Drumrolls* His haircut was a deliberate and strategic move to distract media from focusing on his leg injury. And as I speak, let\'s take out a minute to respect and applaud for this guy who not only played with an injured leg but also helped his team lift the fifth title for the country.
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Palo Alto Makes Artificial Intelligence Push At RSA Conference (Investor Business Daily)
Palo Alto Networks Launches New Security Solutions Infused with Precision AI to Defend Against Advanced Threats and Safeguard AI Adoption (Palo Alto Website)
Palo Alto Networks Abdicates (The Security Industry) - Richard, do you have a vendetta against PANW? First, you snipe them for their 2024 strategy; then, you snipe them for pulling out of RSA. A major conference like RSA provides a vendor with both demand generation and brand awareness. When you are a massive company like PANW, you already have both in large quantities, making guerilla marketing a potentially smart move. Alternatively, if you are a tiny company, it also makes sense to go rogue due to ROI metrics when nobody knows your name and your tiny reach. I disagree with you on this one - PANW pulling out of RSA and doing their own thing is just the start of many major companies moving to run their own side conferences during that same week.
Note to investors and security pros: drive innovation by going on the offensive (SC Media) - Bob Ackerman on driving innovation with offensive moves. A great investor with great advice. Must read.
The Alleged LockBit Ransomware Mastermind Has Been Identified (WIRED) - With eyes like his, I would have pegged him for a criminal overlord from a mile away. Either that or as someone who has to tell his neighbors that he just moved in.
I\u2019m finally home after a long week of RSA Conference madness. The announcements were amazing, the keynotes inspiring, and the expo hall \u2026 well, that left a bit to be desired. Walking into the hall, I felt an overwhelming feeling of \u201Cbeige.\u201D By that, I mean that pretty much all the messaging on the booths was eerily the same. I feel like we\u2019ve moved into an era of cybersecurity where the technology differences are so overlapping and grey that you can\u2019t possibly stand out amongst the noise and not paint yourself into an awkward positioning corner. With that said, a few of the companies\u2019 messaging was clear and concise and talked about something innovative, and those few companies gave me a bit of hope for the future.
In this week\u2019s The Cyber Why we cover the CISA Secure By Design Pledge, WIZ raising a BILLION bucks and actually having a real need for it, AI cybersecurity moves from Palo Alto and Crowdstrike, a throwback to 2003 Trustworthy Computing Memo from Microsoft, and a chuckle filled video from Matthew Broderick. All this and more in this week\u2019s The Cyber Why!
This week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced a \u201CSecure by Design pledge\u201D. The pledge is voluntary for enterprise software products and services, in line with CISA\u2019s secure-by-design principles. Many companies have taken up the torch and made public statements of support, including Armis, Cisco, Cloudflare, GitHub, Google, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Tenable, and dozens more. I love the idea of a pledge, but it won\u2019t actually make anything better in the long run. If it was as easy as declaring \u201Cwe are going to be secure,\u201D we would have done it long ago. At first, I thought this was just another piece of lip service that software vendors were putting forward, but the article by \u201Clcamtuf\u201D made me see it differently. For many software companies, this may be how they get out in front of what could be coming down the pipe in the form of legal requirements containing teeth.
When I think WIZ\u2019s growth rate can\u2019t increase any faster, they go and pull something like this. At the RSA Conference this week, WIZ announced a $1 billion (YES with a B!) investment from major silicon valley VCs, including Andreessen Horowitz. I typically am pretty cynical when I see announcements of raising funds of this size. We live in a world where it takes way less capital to build a technology and software startup than ever, yet I keep seeing massive infusions of cash into companies that are blitzscaling markets that may not need to be blitzscaled. HOWEVER\u2026 On this particular piece of news, I think it\u2019s imperative that WIZ bring this large amount of funding to bear. They are currently in a war with Palo Alto Networks, Crowdstrike, and others to become one of just a few major platforms that large enterprises will look to purchase. This battle is the final epic scene of the tale of cybersecurity consolidation that is upon us. The raise puts significant funds into WIZ\u2019s war chest, allowing them to make acquisitions as they continue to broaden their product portfolio and prepare to go public. Also, they had a pretty crazy kickass booth at RSA this week - the sucker couldn\u2019t have been cheap!
INSERTING and REPLACING SentinelOne\u00AE Unveils Future of Autonomous Security (Yahoo Finance)
Palo Alto Makes Artificial Intelligence Push At RSA Conference (Investor Business Daily)
Palo Alto Networks Launches New Security Solutions Infused with Precision AI to Defend Against Advanced Threats and Safeguard AI Adoption (Palo Alto Website)
The cyber AI platform wars have begun. Last week at RSA, I had the pleasure of sitting in on the announcement by Palo Alto Networks of their new Precision AI cybersecurity solutions, three distinct platforms, and connected co-pilots. It was an exciting presentation in which Palo Alto clearly depicted how they plan to leverage their industry-leading broad set of data and context to provide preventative security solutions ranging from code all the way to cloud-native operational security. Also last week, SentinelOne announced their future of autonomous security built on the back of their Singularity Data Lake and Purple AI system. While Palo has a much broader approach today, it appears that the first battleground will be where AI and security operations collide. Improvements in the SOC are the \u201Clow hanging fruit\u201D in which these cybersecurity behemoths can have a massive impact quickly. Over time, AI will stretch to broader solution sets and value propositions. I plan to follow these two companies, as well as Microsoft, Google, Wiz, and a few others, very closely as this new AI cybersecurity reality emerges.
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