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How to Set Fire to All Your Servers

Compromised data is detrimental, no matter how it's compromised… including by a physical intruder.
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Carrie Lowther
November 12, 2018
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Data security isn’t just a software issue. It’s far more physical than you think. While the discussions around cybersecurity awareness are primarily centered around workforce awareness, firewalls, passwords and mysterious black boxes, it’s important to note that a staggering amount of security breaches don’t involve logins, passwords or code at all. They involve people, hardware and a deafening lack of preparedness. In the age of all things cyber, are we dropping the ball when it comes to the physical threat?
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How Florida Agencies are Training for a Cyber Talent Pipeline

A new partnership in Florida strives to foster cybersecurity talent in state agencies through ongoing education and hands-on training
Claire Meyer
June 8, 2018
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With 11,000 IT and cybersecurity jobs currently unfilled in the state of Florida and state government agencies facing a very competitive talent market, the University of West Florida Center for Cybersecurity and the Florida Agency for State Technology (AST) have tackled the issue aggressively on their own and teamed up to build a pipeline of talented, trained cyber professionals who can support the state’s cyber resiliency and data security.
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A Practical Strategy to Engage the Workforce Against Cyber Criminals

Mark Tellier
June 7, 2018
Our businesses are inundated with incidents of ransomware, malware, adware and many other intrusion variants, it’s no wonder that 90 percent of healthcare institutions have been affected, at a total cost of $6 billion a year, according to a recent study from the Ponemon Institute. As we make our way through these threats, one needs to ask; if so many companies offer solutions, and institutions hire top shelf network security engineers, why are there so many breaches?
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Information from the Clutch 2017 Cybersecurity Survey of Enterprise IT decision-makers

Nearly All Large Businesses Have a Cybersecurity Policy, But Is It Strong Enough?

October 1, 2017
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Ninety-four percent of large businesses in the U.S. have a cybersecurity policy, according to the 2017 Cybersecurity Survey by Clutch, and most of them have had a policy for more than three years. U.S. enterprises are more likely to have a cybersecurity policy than most global organizations (two-thirds of which lack a formal cybersecurity policy), and policies most commonly include required security software, backups, scam detection and security incident reporting protocols.


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