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Between the mudslides in California and both Hawaii’s and Japan’s false missile warnings, mass notification has been at the forefront of recent news.

From April 10 to 13, 2018, a cross-section of the entire security industry will collect in Las Vegas for one of the biggest annual security tradeshows in the U.S. – ISC West.

Now that you have conducted the interviews, it is important to document the results from each interviewee.

Succession planning is a key component in the architecture of your security workforce.

Some of the most basic tenets of password account management have failed, leaving us with a dreadful combination of poor user experience and inadequate security.

A cybersecurity career can offer transitioning veterans a chance to meaningful employment, and that field is experiencing a remarkable shortfall that presents organizations with a challenge to find trustworthy qualified applicants.

Insurance has long existed as a mechanism for the transferal of risk to a third party, particularly for those risks that fall outside of an organization’s direct control. However, as the threats we face evolve so must the insurance products that we purchase. Recently, the most significant dangers that have come to light and threatened to destroy a company overnight have emerged within the cybersecurity sphere. This has fueled the growing interest and appetite for cyber liability insurance.

As ransomware continues to gain notoriety, cybercriminals are looking for more ways to get the most out of the malware that they develop. Similarly, other bad actors who may lack the necessary skills to develop malware themselves are looking for a way to get in on the action. This has led to an increase in ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), a practice in which cybercriminals put their ransomware up for sale, where it is purchased and leveraged by other criminals who are technically unable to develop their own variants.

Organizations of every type and size are always looking to make more informed decisions. In order to do better and plan for the changing world, they want to have access to as much information as possible. And, rather than implementing a new information gathering system, many are looking to mine the data already being collected by their physical security systems.