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How to Close Cybersecurity's Widening Workforce Gap

How are public-private partnerships helping solve the cybersecurity skills gap?

December 6, 2019

To remedy the cybersecurity skills gap and fight data breaches, enterprises across the world are looking overseas. How can public-private partnerships help resolve the industry-wide issue?

The Top 12 Data Breaches of 2019

Maria Henriquez

December 5, 2019

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Just in 2018, there were 500 million personal records stolen. How many records will be stolen by year’s end? According to the RiskBased Data Breach QuickView Report 2019 Q3, at the end of September, there were 5,183 breaches, exposing 7.9 billion records. Compared to the 2018 Q3 report, the total number of breaches was up 33.3 percent and the total number of records exposed more than doubled, up 112 percent.

5 Tips on How Companies Can Prepare for Cyberattacks and Data Breaches

Marc S. Voses

December 5, 2019

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Benjamin Franklin once said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” These sage words unfortunately describe the dilemma many companies are facing on a daily basis with increasing frequency. Whether because of a lack of resources to commit to cybersecurity or the C-suite’s reluctance to do things differently, companies are suffering from a rash of bad actors seeking to profit from cyberattacks and the loss of data because of negligent handling by insiders.

A Resilient Answer to Disasters

Ray Rothrock

December 5, 2019

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Both disaster recovery and business continuity are answers to what happens when entropy strikes, things fall apart, and business is interrupted. Resilience is strategy using a set of tools and approaches that make it harder for things to fall apart, and easier and faster to put them back together when they do.

Clark Atlanta University, Augusta University Partner on Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Systems

December 5, 2019

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Clark Atlanta University (CAU) and Augusta University (AU) have forged a partnership between the CAU Department of Cyber-Physical Systems and the School of Computer and Cyber Sciences at Augusta University.

Protecting Students, Staff and Community at Marymount California University

Learn about Hector Rodriguez, Director of Public Safety and Security at Marymount California University.

Maria Henriquez

December 4, 2019

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How does Hector Rodriguez, Director of Public Safety and Security at Marymount California University, secure the campus, residential areas, staff members and students?

Addressing the Cybersecurity Skills Shortage Through Upskilling and Retention

Maria Henriquez

December 3, 2019

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For years, security leaders have been talking about the cybersecurity skills shortage.

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University of West Florida and Jikei College Group Partner to Address Global Cybersecurity Workforce Shortage

December 3, 2019

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The University of West Florida and the Jikei College Group in Japan announced a partnership that aims to enhance global cybersecurity workforce development.

Contracted vs. In-House Guarding: No Universal Right Answer

Your security officers: should you in-house or outsource?

Ed Finkel

December 2, 2019

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Corporations, universities and other institutions have faced the question of whether to outsource or not to outsource for decades when it comes to physical security and more recently on the cybersecurity side. What is the correct answer to this question?

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Expense-in-Depth: Total Cost of Controls Reconsidered

John McClurg

December 1, 2019

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What is a Defense-in-Depth strategy, and why has it come to be acknowledged as Expense-in-Depth? How can CISO's communicate the business value of this strategy?

Conducting a Workplace Violence Threat Analysis and Developing a Response Plan

There are few situations a security professional will face that is more serious than a potential workplace violence threat. Every security professional knows and understands that all employers have a legal, ethical and moral duty to take reasonable steps to prevent and respond to threats of violence in their workplace.

The Value of a Unified Approach to Critical Event Management

From extreme weather to cyberattacks to workplace violence, every organization will experience at least one, if not multiple, critical events per year. And in today’s interconnected digital and physical world, the cascading safety, brand, and revenue impacts of critical events are more severe. Organizations need to be prepared through a unified and rapid response to these events.

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This month, Security magazine brings you the 2019 Guarding Report, featuring David Komendat, Boeing CSO, and many other public safety leaders to discuss threats and solutions for 2020 and security officer training. Also, we highlight Hector Rodriguez, Director of Public Safety and Security at Marymount California University, CCPA regulations, NIST standards, VMS and much more.

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