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The Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence (IC-CAE), a new center at the University of Southern California will bring together students to study the fields of national security and intelligence.

A new partnership between Southern State Community College and the University of Cincinnati School of Information Technology will allow students to obtain a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology – Cyber Security from UC.

ISACA's new COBIT guidance builds upon best practices shared for the governance and management of information and technology aimed at the whole enterprise through the lens of information security, and details additional metrics and activities that should be considered when implementing or assessing COBIT in the context of information security.

Despite increasing numbers of high-profile data breaches, forms found on 92 percent of websites expose customer data to an average of 17 domains, according to Tala Security's Global Data at Risk - 2020 State of the Web Report

T-Rex Solutions, LLC announced Marine Corps veteran, entrepreneur and cybersecurity executive Dr. Allen Harper joined the organization as Executive Vice President of Cybersecurity. Dr. Harper will lead the company’s delivery of secure cloud services to the Federal government.

The Federal Trade Commission launched a new tool that explores data about problems military consumers may experience in the marketplace. For the first time, data about reports the FTC has received from active duty service members and veterans will be available online in an interactive dashboard at ftc.gov/explore data.

Charles Blauner is CISO in Residence for Team8, a venture group focused on cyber, data and AI technologies with roots in Israel’s elite military intelligence unit 8200. With an information security career primarily in financial services spanning over 30 years, Blauner held senior security executive roles for Citigroup since 2005. Prior to that, Blauner held several roles, including CISO at JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank.

The presidential campaign of former Vice President Joe Biden announced that it had filled the positions of chief information security officer (CISO) and chief technology officer (CTO) in order to address potential cybersecurity threats to the campaign. 

ASIS International has announced that General Stan McChrystal, US Army (RET), will present a Global Security Exchange Plus (GSX+) keynote address on Military & Law Enforcement Appreciation Day at GSX+.

With a myriad of employees and contractors given ubiquitous access to business data, one thing is clear; identity has become the new security perimeter. Ensuring ERP data security, privacy, and compliance can no longer rely solely on network threat monitoring but requires using a layered identity defense to limit access to and within mission-critical applications.