Cybersecurity has a huge skills gap! Will you be part of the problem or the solution?
ISC(2) Estimates a global cyber security workforce shortage of 1.5 million jobs over the next five years.
ISC(2) Estimates a global cyber security workforce shortage of 1.5 million jobs over the next five years.
Certifications and field capabilities both have value in escalating cybersecurity’s role, execution
David Braue | 28 Oct | Read more
No matter how much an organisation spends on technical defences against threats to information security, it can be undone by one employee making a careless decision. So why aren’t organisations focussing more effort on securing humans?
Ongoing leaks of sensitive documents at national broadband network (NBN) builder NBN Co were avoidable and highlight systematic failures in internal document controls, document-security specialists have warned as the fallout continues after the company was forced to call in the Australian Federal Police (AFP) for assistance.
David Braue | 26 May | Read more
The comment period on a proposed set of software export restrictions ends next Monday, and the rules, as written, would severely restrict international sales, deployment, research and even discussion of cybersecurity tools and exploits, experts say.
Maria Korolov | 16 Jul | Read more
Cybercriminals are constantly looking for new ways to bypass security measures. In a survey conducted by the SANS Institute on the behalf of <a href="https://www.guidancesoftware.com/">Guidance Software</a>, 56% of respondents assumed they have been breached or will be soon, compared with 47% last year.
By Ed McAndrew and Anthony Di Bello | 09 Jul | Read more
Security experts are divided about last week's decision by the U.S. Department of Justice to use Box for cloud-based document storage and collaboration.
Maria Korolov | 02 Jun | Read more
A company's own employees are a significant factor in the majority of data breaches, either through malicious activity or avoidable mistakes, say two new studies, but companies aren't doing enough to address this issue.
Maria Korolov | 11 Apr | Read more
Forget credit card numbers. The hot new data for the modern bad guy is the electronic health record, which is not only worth more on the black market, but is easier to get.
Maria Korolov | 20 Mar | Read more
In the latest Internet of Things security blunder, personal weather station devices made by Netatmo were found sending users' Wi-Fi passwords back to the company over unencrypted connections.
Lucian Constantin | 14 Feb | Read more
The FBI today named the North Korean government as responsible for the cyber attack against Sony Pictures last month, saying its technical analysis points to the isolated, Communist country.
Gregg Keizer | 20 Dec | Read more
Imagine it's the end of 2015 and you're about to read an expose from a fly on the wall at top closed-room board meetings across the enterprise discussing the state of information security. You're excited, right?
David Geer | 11 Dec | Read more
The critical Shellshock vulnerabilities found last month in the Bash Unix shell have motivated security researchers to search for similar flaws in old, but widely used, command-line utilities.
Lucian Constantin | 31 Oct | Read more
Online criminals remain at least one step ahead of many IT groups, according to this year's "U.S. State of Cybercrime Survey," conducted annually by CSO magazine, the Secret Service, the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Deterrence and detection are both falling short of their goals: The 500 survey respondents faced an average of 135 security incidents last year, and 34 percent say that number was up compared to the previous year. Just one-third of respondents could estimate losses from their breaches; among those who could, the breaches cost $415,000, on average. Legal liabilities and lawsuits after breaches add to the costs.
George V. Hulme | 29 Sep | Read more
The developers of a type of malicious software that encrypts a computer's files and demands a ransom have fixed an error security experts said allowed files to be recovered without paying.
Jeremy Kirk | 18 Sep | Read more