Items Tagged with 'cyber security awareness'

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Gamification for security awareness training

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.


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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. 
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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
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
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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