Security Training
Exchanges in History: What Third Party Cyber Risk Management (TPRM) Programs Can Learn from the Past
March 09, 2017 Added by:Scott Schneider
Throughout history, whenever organizations, governments, or industries have used an exchange to share information, great transformation has taken place.
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Ask a Security Professional: WordPress Database Security Part Two — Best Practices
March 02, 2017 Added by:Logan Kipp
By following WordPress database security best practices, you become a better WordPress admin and a more effective guardian of the data in your website.
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The Dark Side of the Force: Hacktivism Takes Center Stage in 2016
December 21, 2016 Added by:Dan Lohrmann
A new world of hacking motivations and causes is starting to develop — along with convenient, easy-to-use tools for computer novices to do many dangerous things online.
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Decrypting the Gender Imbalance: Hiring Women in Cybersecurity
December 09, 2016 Added by:Michelle Johnson Cobb
Organizations that seek to achieve greater representation of women in their IT security teams should maintain a steady, multi-faceted approach to recruitment — and continually evaluate their performance in terms of the advancement and retention of women in this area.
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Closing the Cybersecurity Skills Gap — Calling All Women
October 12, 2016 Added by:Michelle Johnson Cobb
As cyberthreats have become more sophisticated, networks more complex and cybersecurity issues of greater concern at the board level, demand for skilled cybersecurity professionals has soared. Unfortunately, there just isn’t enough talent to fill all of the roles.
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STOP, Collaborate and Listen: Where Employee Vulnerabilities Put Data at Risk
September 07, 2016 Added by:Ron Arden
Whether it is the company’s trade secrets, product designs, financial data or the personal information of customers, businesses must protect high value information from landing in the hands of the wrong individual or threat group.
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Insider Threat: Why Negligence Is More Dangerous Than Malevolence
August 26, 2016 Added by:Eric Aarrestad
When addressing the risk of Insider Threats, we must look beyond those who are intentionally doing harm and place equal emphasis on those who are simply doing their job.
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A View from the Top: The C-Suite Steps Up as Cyber Security Threats Surge
July 13, 2016 Added by:Steve Durbin
When it comes to cyber security, it’s more important than ever for board members and core executives—especially those not directly involved with deploying security programs—to fully participate and contribute on a continuous basis.
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What a Risk-Based Approach to Security Means for Your Business
June 20, 2016 Added by:Steve Durbin
Executives are familiar with the benefits of cyberspace and how the Internet, and today’s usage of connected devices, increases innovation, collaboration, efficiency, competitiveness and commitment to customers, but many struggle with assessing the risks versus the rewards.
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Why Is There a Shortage of Security Talent?
June 03, 2016 Added by:Ajit Sancheti
Embracing new technologies that help intelligently automate parts of security to provide overwhelmed security teams a hand is a start. But in the long run, bigger changes to security strategies will need to take place. Everyone in a company needs to be responsible for security, not just the CISO.
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Managing Insider Threats in Today's Digital Age
April 05, 2016 Added by:Steve Durbin
Most research on the insider threat focuses on malicious behavior. However, insider negligence and insider accidents comprise a greater and growing proportion of information security incidents. Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) who limit their thinking to malicious insiders may be gravely miscalculating the risk.
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March Madness Security Threats Can Drive Any Organization Mad!
March 14, 2016 Added by:Mark Parker
Unfortunately, while the popularity of March Madness (the NCAA Basketball Tournament) has grown exponentially, nearly every facet of any employee’s involvement with the event could open up the employee, as well as the organization, to a number of cyber risks.
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Yes. The World Needs More Security Predictions
February 17, 2016 Added by:Dan Lohrmann
With the surging growth in cyberspace, new technologies, Wi-Fi, apps, robots, drones, terrorists with social media accounts, the Internet of Things (IoT) and nation-state hacking, online data security has become the Achilles’ heel of the Internet. A growing number of people want to know about new apps available for their smartphones and their data in the cloud – along with the upcoming securit...
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What Do Star Wars and Recent Data Breaches Teach Us About Cyber Ethics?
December 21, 2015 Added by:Dan Lohrmann
Beyond cyber war and the good guys having the right tools to catch the bad guys, there can be a tendency to ignore “more mundane” acceptable use directives. That is, security staff can download copyrighted material (movies and games), view porn at work, look at information that is private (like promotions, raises or other data from management), “borrow” passwords or delete log files to cov...
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CISOs: Five Ways to Ramp Up Your Security Strategy
December 08, 2015 Added by:Kirsten Bay
Where is a cyber security professional to begin when the stakes are set against the corporation? The key is better preparation. Below are five steps that will provide an approach to help build a strategy that offers the potential to outsmart the attacker.
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Managing Security Resources: It’s All About People and Awareness (Part II)
December 07, 2015 Added by:Steve Durbin
As information risks and cyber security threats increase, organizations need to move away from reacting to incidents and toward predicting and preventing them. Developing a robust mechanism to assess and treat information risk throughout the organization is a business essential.
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