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The 2017 RSA Cybersecurity Conference in San Francisco was more crowded than last year, if that’s even possible.

At some point in their career, most security executives make the decision to seek out new employment opportunities.

Today in America, Second Amendment rights and university security missions are seemingly at odds.

GSOC, SOC, VSOC, JSOC, NOC, INSOC... The possibilities are endless when it comes to a center, building, or facility that mitigates and responds to enterprise security issues, either within the U.S. or on a global level.

Whether you’re attending ISC West on your own or with your integrator, or just watching the new security technology arrive from afar, there are many new solutions on the horizon for video surveillance, access management, mobile credentials and much more.

More than 5,000 vascular or thoracic patients seen between 2012 and 2015 at Sentara hospitals in Virginia. That’s what Norfolk, Virginia-based Sentara Healthcare discovered in November of 2016 within one of its third-party vendors.

Today’s center of gravity in cybersecurity is shifting, pulling the skills and experience of cyber defenders in new directions. In most companies, this situation has led to a convergence of responsibilities between physical security, information security and cybersecurity teams, and an increased commitment to “staffing-up” of dedicated “cyber defenders.”

There’s a C- on your report card, but you’re not alone: The 2017 Global Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card found that the world’s information security practitioners gave global cybersecurity readiness an overall score of 70 percent – a six-point drop over 2016.

With so many security solutions on the market today, it can be tempting to chase the brightest new technologies to improve security operations in your enterprise.

An inexplicable rise in organized retail crime during the past couple of years, perhaps due to police passivity, has major retailers looking to upgrade their equipment, technology, policies and procedures, and training for employees to combat loss prevention.