Industry decision-makers need to re-think their hiring strategies. Sure, those credentials sound great. Problem is, likelihood of hardened mindsets is enhanced tenfold because of them. While a candidate may have the juice under the hood, this doesn’t necessarily mean they’re willing to hit the gas when it counts. When interviewing seasoned candidates, focus on change.
Sixty-six percent of data protection leaders admit that employees are the weakest link in an enterprise’s security posture, and 55 percent of organizations have had a security incident or data breach due to a malicious or negligent employee, according to the Ponemon Institute’s report on Managing Insider Risk through Training and Culture.
Network security practitioners often look to solve technical problems with technical solutions: “The engineers got us into this mess; they can get us out of it.”
Large organizations (companies or agencies with more than 200 iOS or Android mobile devices) are almost guaranteed to have at least one malware-infected device.
A Spiceworks survey of more than 600 IT pros in the US and the UK from SMBs and enterprises shows that the cybersecurity skills gap is unlikely to improve in the near future.
Organizations across America are facing unprecedented challenges in building effective, manageable security programs in order to protect the wide array of sensitive data they are responsible for keeping safe.
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