Cyber Security Jobs: A strong security-focused culture and adherence to best practices helps companies attract and retain cyber security talent. (ISC)² commissioned the study to better understand how successful organizations are overcoming the shortage of skilled talent for cyber security jobs in a demand-heavy, competitive recruitment environment. The growing cyber security workforce Read more…
The emergence of cyber threats is forcing the industrial sector to take a long, hard look at how industrial control systems (ICS), are protected. The increase in the number of cyber incidents on ICS networks has become a reality we can no longer ignore. Yet, ICS networks pose unique challenges to security professionals, primarily Read more…
Industrial Control System attacks and SCADA system attacks are growing and so is the concern. Many ICS’s are antiquated or un-patched versions of Windows operating systems. Why are attackers targeting ICS? The damage or consequences can be high, everybody knows the result of shutting down a power plant even if Read more…
The main role of a security analyst within an organization is to help it prevent any potential cyber threats. Your daily tasks will be mainly to investigate through the organization’s system and see whether there are any uncovered weaknesses in the infrastructure to further protect the organization from them. You Read more…
We use the internet for day-to-day activities from work to play to shopping under the assumption that security experts are keeping us safe from cybercriminals. But those security experts are already stretched thin — and the situation promises to get worse as cyber security skills grow thinner. The nonprofit group ISACA predicts Read more…
“Just a matter of time” before 9/11 Cyber Attack – cyber security expert The Cyber Attack Era: Modern network-connected infrastructure is very vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to digital strategy consultant and cyberterrorism expert Lars Hilse, who talked to Sputnik about the risks of online terrorism and crime Hilse, who warned Read more…
Russian Hacker; Peter Yuryevich Levashov, of St. Petersburg, Russia, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in U.S. federal court in Connecticut to computer crime, wire fraud, conspiracy and identity theft charges. Levashov, a Russian hacker also known by many online aliases including Peter Severa, Peter Levashov, Petr Severa and Sergey Astakhov, has Read more…
Cyber Minute with Lori Stroud Interview Focus: How did you get your Cyber-Start? Interviewing cyber security professionals to reveal streams that brought them to cyber security industry an interview project by InfoHacker. These interview series will capture how cyber professionals came onto the cyber scene to highlight the variety of Read more…
What do we currently know about SCADA and ICS Cyber Threats? What are the SCADA-Specific Malwares out there and how vulnerable are industrial targets? Overview of SCADA systems In one of the most important sectors of cyber security is what most people NOT in security rarely hear about. SCADA (Supervisory Read more…
Analysts in the security operations center (SOC) have long been overwhelmed with the noise coming from the increasing number of alerts. According to Demisto’s second annual State of SOAR Report, alerts are on the rise, leaving today’s security teams bombarded with 174,000 per week. The report found that security teams were only able Read more…