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Ransomware prevention tactics keep businesses healthy

July 20, 2021

With more than 4,000 ransomware attacks occurring daily since the start of 2016 according to The U.S. Department of Justice, every company of every size, every network stack and every infrastructure deployment is a potential target.

Using risk quantification to assess cyber risk

Jerry Caponera

June 16, 2021

Communicating risk through risk quantification and crisis scenario planning, offers many benefits to the security leader and the organization.

The new threat economy: A guide to cybercrime’s transformation – and how to respond

Lyndon Brown

June 15, 2021

Take a look at the evolution of cybercrime and how CISOs can mitigate the threats with a mix of tools.

Leveraging gamification for security awareness training

Randy Richard

January 29, 2021

To determine whether implementing gaming techniques for security awareness training at your organization makes sense, it is important to first understand what the ultimate goal of the security awareness course is. In many cases, gaming techniques can help employees overcome initial resistance to learning.

The first line of defense: Why employees are the key to stronger cybersecurity

Dan Callahan

January 21, 2021

Achieving cybersecurity awareness requires a new approach to employee training.

gamify the cybersecurity training process

A hundred-year-old secret is key to fighting cyberattacks

Heather Stratford

January 15, 2021

The average employee is the greatest risk to an organization’s security. Here’s how to rethink enterprise-wide training to fight cybercrime and utilize gamification to make it stick.

The Standoff virtual hacking competition

Put your cybersecurity skills to the test in a virtual battlefield

November 6, 2020

The Standoff is an online competition where cybersecurity experts can put their skills to the test against professional hackers. That's right - your organization can test its defense skills over a battle for control over digital replicas of real-life IT infrastructure being targeted by real-life hackers.

How to Set Fire to All Your Servers

Compromised data is detrimental, no matter how it's compromised… including by a physical intruder.

Carrie Lowther

November 12, 2018

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?

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

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.

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?

More Articles Tagged with 'cyber security awareness'

In this webinar, we are going to explore all the different cloud models used in video surveillance and cloud access control solutions. We will also discuss the rising trend of “Security as a service” and how this can impact the future of security buying, maintenance, and relationships between security providers and clients.

With the advent of Internet of Things (IoT) technology and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the cyber security practices are increasingly getting integrated with the physical security practices.