Each year’s ending is replete with predictions of what the year ahead portends. In this practice, the security sector is no stranger.

It’s the time of the year when Girl Scouts knock on our doors and sell their infamous and delicious cookies: Samoas, Tagalongs, Do-si-dos, Thanks-A-Lot and Thin Mints (my family’s personal favorite).

The city of San Antonio, Texas, has plans to open its first cybersecurity security operations center.

A new Spiceworks study reveals that 38 percent of organizations across North America and Europe have an active cyber insurance policy.

A new report from The Bunker has highlighted that senior executives are still often the weakest link in the corporate cybersecurity chain and that cybercriminals target this vulnerability to commit serious data breaches.

According to a survey of 500 IT professionals (conducted by cloud and data center solutions provider INAP), 57 percent feel they’re only contacted when something goes wrong, and 27 percent feel strongly that “senior management has clearly communicated a desire to see the IT team more aligned with the goals of individual business units.”

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and UAH's Center for Cybersecurity Research and Education (CCRE) have launched a new Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity program.

A new report says that as organizations embrace new technologies, such as multi-cloud deployments, they are struggling to implement proper data security.

 

A report from the National Center for Education Statistics reveals that the percent of schools reporting cyberbullying increased from 62.3 percent of schools in 2010 to 80.9 percent in 2016.

With more than 16,500 known security vulnerabilities being catalogued, 2018 set a new record over last year’s previous record of 14,714.