Cybersecurity learning is a critical part of any cybersecurity program. Cybersecurity professionals must
continuously upgrade their knowledge to cope with the rapid evolution of cyber threats. Organizations
need new skills to confidently deploy emerging technologies that power competitive advantage....
Sara Pan, senior product marketing manager at Proofpoint shares insights from Proofpoint's 2022 Security Awareness Study on how to improve security awareness training programs.
How effective are your cybersecurity awareness programs—and do your employees agree?
This central question was the cornerstone of this research project which assessed the efficacy of cybersecurity
awareness programs from both perspectives—the security professional
and the non-security employee.
The responses...
Beyond advising the seniormost levels of the business in the strategic use of technology, the need to recruit new cybersecurity professionals often also tops the list of tasks facing today's security leaders, says Rob Hornbuckle, CISO of Allegiant Air.
Motivation, retention, and support are the crucial components of every successful security awareness training program. After you’ve got your program in place and it’s optimized to motivate adult learners, you can start to focus on improving the ‘stickiness’ of your program by focusing on improving your...
As customers spend more and more money online each year, the opportunities for fraud increase in parallel; experts project a loss of $24 billion to payment card fraud by the end of 2018. Payment card fraudsters rely on a sophisticated ecosystem and support network that provides a wide range of credit card details,...
Government cyber teams must adopt a modern and evolving security operations model and an analytics-driven approach to cybersecurity if they hope to keep pace with the evolving threat landscape.
With the advent of technology in personal healthcare - internet connected glucose monitors, intravenous blood pressure monitoring, personal best friend emotional bots - a lot of highly sensitive data that's rampantly traversing the airwaves. The impact of this data getting in the wrong hands is just starting to be...
A recent global survey found that 52% of businesses admit that employees are their biggest weakness in IT security, with their careless actions putting business IT security strategy at risk.
Download this whitepaper and learn:
Common security mistakes employees make;
How BYOD is making security more...
Cybercrime is a global and systemic problem that's growing exponentially. High-profile attacks can be committed with less sophistication because of services for hire readily available on criminal forums. This has resulted in making the methodology and attack vectors mainstream. The impact of new types of crime, as...
The best approach to building a security policy is by using a comprehensive, layered approach that covers all threats (both new and known). This policy needs to leverage real-time threat intelligence by addressing all threat vectors and all platform types as workloads migrate from physical to virtual to...
The threat landscape certainly has changed in recent years. But can you say the same about the traditional intrusion prevention system."The biggest problem with IPSs today is that organizations are trying to fight today's threats with yesterday's solutions," says Bertone, who serves as CTO of Fidelis Cybersecurity....
As pressure to speed the development of applications intensifies, CISOs must be the "voice of reason," taking a leadership role in ensuring security issues are addressed early in app development process, says John Dickson, principal at Denim Group, a Texas-based security consultancy.
To paraphrase an old saying, a wall is only as
strong as its weakest point. When it comes
to system and data security, people are
often that point.
People are the last line of defense to prevent
unblocked attacks from clearing a path to
your systems and data. To serve that role
effectively, employees must be...
Ireland's Cyber Crime Conference in Dublin drew a capacity crowd for a full day of security briefings, networking, hotly contested capture-the-flag and secure-coding challenges, as well as a chance to sharpen one's lock-picking skills.
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