It’s easy to think of hackers as masterminds that can crack the toughest defenses, but more often than not, hackers are just waiting for the everyday user to slip up. As it turns out, the everyday user slips up very often. In fact, 95% of data breaches can be attributed to human error. Human error […]
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The cybersecurity job market is full of opportunity. Experts predict that by 2021, there will be 3.5 million unfiled cybersecurity jobs. This reflects the both the growing number of cyber threats and lack of properly trained cyber professionals. This workforce shortage is crippling the field, and cyber security educators are struggling to keep up. Now,
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If you’ve been looking forward to cyber Monday deals, you’re not alone. Hackers are also gearing up for the massive online shopping day, preparing to ramp up their efforts for a festive hacking season. Before you jump into one of the biggest spending days of the season, it’s good time to brush up on these
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Today, data breaches and cyber attacks aren’t a matter of “if” but “when,” making cybersecurity employee training a must. While cybersecurity training doesn’t directly generate revenue, it’s important to calculate it as a measurable metric, and ultimately determine the ROI of cybersecurity employee training. To first measure the ROI of cybersecurity employee training, you’ll have
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The unfilled cybersecurity jobs worldwide has reached over 4 million. The cybersecurity skills gap – which only continues to grow – has many conflating or interrelating causes, but at the top of the list is cybersecurity education. Cybersecurity education in is lacking. For instance, out of the top 50 computer science programs in the US,
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Cybercrimes are becoming more frequent and more damaging. As the world becomes increasingly digitized, cybersecurity can no longer be put on the backburner. Every October, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) is held to raise awareness of the growing concerns of the safety and security of the digital world. For NCSAM 2019, we’ve put together a
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While cyber threats may not be in your control, your cybersecurity strategy is – and it should be risk-based. A risk-based approach to cybersecurity means that your security team is primarily concerned with reducing your organization’s likelihood and vulnerability in case of a cyberattack. A risk-based approach begins with an understanding of your business’s critical
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The internet of things (IoT) plays a big role in our everyday routine, whether we realize it or not. These include things like the wireless speaker playing music at your favorite coffee shop to the wireless printer at your office. Although this increased connection makes many tasks convenient and accessible, it opens up a lot
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The food delivery service confirmed a data breach exposed the records of 4.9 million, including customers, delivery workers, and merchants. Hackers stole information including: names, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, passwords, and partial credit card and bank account numbers. The passwords exposed the DoorDash data breach were “hashed and salted” -this means there were
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You can’t control whether your organization is the target of a cyber-attack, but you can control how prepared you are to handle it. Cybersecurity is essentially contingent on human interactions between the user, the defender, and the attacker. Kaspersky Lab reports that 90% of corporate data breaches are caused by social engineering attacks and employee
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