United States Secret Service veteran Mike Smith has been named Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Arcfield, a systems engineering and integration firm in the intelligence and defense sector.
Sukumar Reddy Saddi has been named Global Integrity Finance's Chief Technology Officer. Saddi will lead the company's end-to-end information technology strategy and development of financial applications.
A new report from Veriff analyzes data about the cybersecurity workforce, finding strong cybersecurity industries in the United States, Brazil and Mexico. The report also details which jobs are the most in-demand, having researched global job boards and roles at cybersecurity companies.
The time it takes to get engineers onsite (52% in the US and 42% globally), inadequate network monitoring (41% in the US and 36% globally) and a lack of in-house skill (40% in both the US and globally) are among the biggest challenges organizations face in resolving a network outage quickly, according to a recent study commissioned by Opengear, a Digi International company.
To help meet the need for specialized engineers who can design and defend secure systems, Duke University is launching a new Cybersecurity Master of Engineering degree program.