What the Skills Shortage Means for Existing Cyber Security Practitioners Ed Moyle, Director of Thought Leadership and Research, ISACA (Credit) By now, most practitioners have heard (probably from a few different sources) that organizations struggle when it comes to finding, hiring and retaining the right resources for information security and/or Read more…
Cyber Security – What are the Differences Between Red Teams and Blue Teams. New entrants into cyber security often are not aware of exactly what these team designations mean, here they are in short order: Red Team These are external people/entities that test the effectiveness of a security Read more…
Is Gmail Secure? What About Yahoo Email? The short answer is yes. However, if you are using Yahoo, it is definitely less secure in my experience. Here is why I say this, when doing a cross comparison between both Gmail and Yahoo email accounts, I noticed that Gmail completely masks Read more…
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. For the past 15 years, the goal of this annual initiative is to raise awareness about the importance of cyber security. In recent years, cyber risk has come out of the server rooms and into the boardrooms. That is a good thing. Cyber Read more…
Federal agencies surge to combat ever-growing cyber security threats—but is it enough? This year has brought major changes to government cyber security, including a new Homeland Security office authorized to tackle long-range cyber challenges and new initiatives to shore up the cyber security of government supply chains and expel risky Read more…
My mother is now retired, but she worked in HR and payroll for decades, sometimes for banks. Based on her stories, I have an understanding of how handing out or snail-mailing physical checks can be inconvenient from both a payer’s and a payee’s perspective. Many workplaces even used to have Read more…
A tractor trailer housing a Cybersecurity Operation Center will travel throughout the US and Europe for incident response training, security support, and education. IBM Security is taking incident response training on the road with the IBM X-Force Command Cyber Tactical Operation Center (C-TOC), a tractor trailer housing a fully functional Read more…
Researchers found that the Industroyer malware is an improvised version of TeleBots’ Exaramel malware. The threat actor group is also linked to the disk-wiping malware NotPetya ransomware and BlackEnergy malware toolkit. The infamous TeleBots threat actor group has been found to be linked with the Industroyer malware that was used against Read more…
Cybersecurity is one of the most dynamic and exciting fields in tech, combining cutting-edge information technology with crime fighting. It’s also an industry in serious need of qualified professionals. Estimates show that there are over one million unfilled cybersecurity jobs. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment Read more…
Auditors Claim Critical Cyber Security Problems In U.S. Weapons Systems Almost all of the U.S. military’s newly developed weapons systems suffer from “mission-critical cyber security vulnerabilities,” a review of government security audits conducted from 2012 to 2017 found, suggesting military agencies have rushed to computerize new weapons systems without prioritizing Read more…