Organizations should start perceiving penetration testing not as a formalistic or superfluous security task but as a legal duty and, most importantly, as a valuable contribution to their competitiveness on the global market where customers strongly value that you care about security of their data. 

Achieving cybersecurity awareness requires a new approach to employee training.

New York financial regulators have surveyed more than 200 banks and other financial institutions about their cyber security and will soon expand their analysis to insurers with trillions of dollars of assets, according to an Associated Press report.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that the New York State Intelligence Center has relocated to the Center for Internet Security in East Greenbush, New York, putting the state’s primary cyber security protection agency under the same roof as a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing cyber security readiness and response around the globe, according to a Long Island press release.

A former NSA contractor has designed four typefaces that would be unreadable by text-scanning software (either used by a government agency or an independent hacker).

The partnership is aimed to increase the cyber preparedness and expertise of the state, as well as foster entrepreneurship.