Road Map To A $200,000 Cybersecurity Job
Looking to get ahead in cybersecurity? Here are four areas to keep in mind as you make a five-year career plan. The economics of supply and demand shape today’s cybersecurity job market. Each year, US employers post more than 120,000 openings for information security analysts and roughly one-third go unfilled. Hiring managers are bracing for…
Which countermeasures improve security and which are a waste of money?
If you want to know about which cyber defenses are most effective and which are a waste of money and resources, ask a hacker. And that’s just what Nuix researchers did. “During Black Hat USA and DEF CON 24 in 2016, we conducted a survey of known hackers, professionally known as penetration testers, and asked…
Can the World Economic Forum’s Cyber Security Principles Advance Cyber Resilience?
A few weeks ago, the World Economic Forum (WEF) met in Davos, Switzerland where an expert working group issued a report “Advancing Cyber Resilience: Principles and Tools for Boards.” It is touted as a first-of-its-kind resource to support board of directors and CEOs on cyber security and cyber resilience strategy. The WEF’s principles and tools…
Preparing Security For Windows 7 End-Of-Life Support
Moving to Microsoft’s latest OS may give you flashbacks to when XP support ended. Last month, Microsoft announced it will end support for Windows 7 in 2020, giving customers three years to upgrade their systems to Windows 10. In the short term, computers running Windows 7 will still work, and Microsoft will still share security…
IDG Contributor Network: Who makes better cybersecurity decisions, men or women?
Unfortunately, it’s very common to assume that when women are stressed they are more emotional or that they rely more heavily on intuition or hunches. (If you agree with this notion, spoiler alert – you are wrong…. LOL. Then you’re probably going to rely more heavily on men, not women, in high pressure, high risk…
CrowdStrike Fails In Bid To Stop NSS Labs From Publishing Test Results At RSA
A security vendor’s failed attempt to prevent a report containing details on its product’s capabilities from being released at the RSA conference in San Francisco this week has focused attention on the need for more widely accepted testing and validation services for security technologies. The report is from NSS Labs, a company that bills itself…
Salted Hash: RSA Conference 2017 – Live Blog
All this week, Salted Hash will be on location at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. We’ll be updating the blog multiple times a day with news and other content from the show – so check-back often. Yesterday, we mentioned a lawsuit filed by CrowdStrike, which attempted to prevent NSS Labs from releasing test results…
‘Shock And Awe’ Ransomware Attacks Multiply
RSA CONFERENCE 2017 – San Francisco – The data-hostage crisis isn’t going away anytime soon: In fact, it’s starting to get a lot scarier and destructive, and with a more unpredictable outcome. Security experts long have warned that ponying up with the ransom fee only plays into the hands of ransomware attackers; it doesn’t necessarily…
Privacy groups claim FBI hacking operation went too far
Privacy advocates are claiming in court that an FBI hacking operation to take down a child pornography site was unconstitutional and violated international law. That’s because the operation involved the FBI hacking 8,700 computers in 120 countries, based on a single warrant, they said.
How trolls, hackers and spies are rewriting the rules of conflict
Estonia is a country of around 1.3 million people, facing the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland, it borders Latvia to the south and Russia to the east. After decades as part of the Soviet Union, it regained independence in 1991. But Estonia does not intend to be defined by its past, but is…