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The workforce and skills gap in cybersecurity continues to plague organizations. Source: RSAC 2019: 58% of Orgs Have Unfilled Cyber Positions | Threatpost InfoSec Jobs InfoSec Certs Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner

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A researcher has discovered a serious vulnerability in Xiaomi electric scooters. Exploiting the flaw could allow remote attacks on it causing sudden breaks. Source: Vulnerability In Xiaomi Electric Scooters Could Allow Remote Attacks IoT Security DISC InfoSec 🔒 securing the business 🔒 Cyber Security Awareness ↑ Grab this Headline Animator

Personal data is a precious commodity but sometimes we can share too much? Rob thinks we need to develop our human firewall in an age where some much of our lives is online. Rob May is chairman of IoD Surrey, an award-winning entrepreneur and Managing Director of ramsac limited. Rob makes complex subjects straightforward by […]

Cyber security is among the essential subjects to boards, alongside business strategy and leadership. Your compelling case to gain an investment is now here! Source: 3 Compelling Reasons To Invest In Cyber Security – Part 3 🔒 securing the business 🔒 DISC InfoSec  

Report claims US public and private sectors had over 300,000 cybersecurity-related job openings between April 2017 and March 2018. By Catalin Cimpanu for Zero Day US lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill in the House of Representatives meant to address the cybersecurity workforce shortage crisis. The bill, named the Cyber Ready Workforce Act (H.R.6791), would establish a grant program within […]

Read Forbes Technology Council list nine things that can impact cybersecurity on Forbes : From the Equifax breach this past September to the recent hack of MyFitnessPal data through Under Armour, the number of high-profile cyberattacks has continued to climb in recent months. Every company, regardless of size, must be prepared for the possibility that they […]

By Edward Amoroso Most introductory books on cyber security are either too technical for popular readers, or too casual for professional ones. This book, in contrast, is intended to reside somewhere in the middle. That is, while concepts are explained in a friendly manner for any educated adult, the book also necessarily includes network diagrams […]

 Luke Irwin The dramatic rise in cyber attacks over the past few years has caught most businesses off guard. Their cyber security departments are severely understaffed, causing them to look desperately for qualified professionals to help tackle the threat. There has never been a better time to get into cyber security, so if you’re looking […]

Cyber Health Check   Deloitte breach highlights the need for a cyber health check Javier Brias Deloitte, one of the world’s biggest accounting organizations, recently suffered a data breach that compromised confidential emails and plans of some of its blue-chip clients, according to the Guardian. The hackers also had potential access to usernames, passwords, IP addresses, […]

The standards in the Cyber Resilience Guidance Standards Kit provide expert guidance on cyber security and business continuity. These standards will help you build on the guidance of the standards in the Cyber Resilience Core Standards Kit. The standards included in this kit are: PAS 555:2013:- This Publicly Available Specification (PAS) document from BSI details what good […]

Excellence is achievable but perfection is not. Find an excellent anti-virus product based on your requirements.   Malware are evolving faster than ever, so it’s encourging to discover that the latest generation of antivirus (AV) are better equipped to handle this evolving pace of change. Information security best practice recommends that every PC should run […]

Cyber Security Strategy By Marika Samarati The High Performance Security Report 2016 published by Accenture Security unearthed a clear disconnection between how companies perceive cyber threats and the reality of the situation. According to the report, 75% of security executives surveyed said they were confident in their cyber security strategies, and 70% reported that their […]

Cyber security is not enough – you need to become cyber resilient   Cyber Resilience Implementation Suite It’s no longer sufficient to suppose that you can defend against any potential attack; you must accept that an attack will inevitably succeed. An organisation’s resilience in identifying and responding to security breaches will become a critical survival […]

By Kelly Jackson Higgins New study reveals that none of the top 10 US university computer science and engineering program degrees requires students take a cybersecurity course. There’s the cybersecurity skills gap, but a new study shows there’s also a major cybersecurity education gap — in the top US undergraduate computer science and engineering programs. […]

by Desislava Aleksandrova A new report – A Guide to Cyber Risk: Managing the Impact of Increasing Interconnectivity – reveals that cyber crime costs the world $445 billion annually, with the top ten economies accounting for more than 50% of the costs. Since 2005 there have been 5,029 reported data breach incidents in the US alone, and at […]

RESILIA™ Cyber Resilience Best Practices AXELOS’s new guide RESILIA™ Cyber Resilience Best Practices provides a methodology for detecting and recovering from cyber security incidents using the ITIL lifecycle RESILIA™ Cyber Resilience Best Practices Best guide on Cyber Resilience on the web – Cyber Resilience Best Practices is part of the AXELOS RESILIA™ portfolio. RESILIA™ Cyber Resilience […]

What is most beneficial about cyber security safeguards, Well, you will not only benefit from the better protection of your own information, but you will also gain a competitive advantage by demonstrating your cyber credentials. For example, certification to ISO 27001 or evidence of compliance with the PCI DSS (for merchants and service providers) is often […]

by Lewis Morgan @ITG It has now been a week since Infosecurity Europe 2014. This year was my first at Infosec, and I found it to be one of the most interesting and diverse events I have ever been to. During my short time on the IT Governance stand, I spoke to several people who […]