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5 Myths about Starting a Cybersecurity Career
Cybersecurity is a rapidly growing field with excellent career prospects. There are two main reasons. First, the cybersecurity market is increasing and is forecast to reach a global volume of $273.6 billion by 2028 (CAGR of 10.48%). Second, the cybersecurity skills shortage persists. With that in mind, let’s bust the five myths about starting a career in cybersecurity.
Remote Browser Isolation: Preventing Malicious Web Code from Entering Your Network
Remote browser isolation, or RBI, is a technology that uses logical or physical barriers to separate non-trusted web browsing from the corporate network.
5 Critical Cyber Risks that Can Threaten Business Profits
In today’s interconnected world, business leaders must confront the pervasive and detrimental risk of cyberattacks and data breaches. Yet the consequences of cyber incidents extend beyond compromising sensitive information — they can severely impact a company’s profitability.
5 Steps to Maximize AI in Business Projects: Avoiding Security and Regulatory Headaches
Companies across the globe have jumped on the artificial intelligence (AI) bandwagon and started developing products that incorporate AI or use AI tools to empower their current workforce.
Vulnerability Management: 5 Steps To Protect Your Business
In the most simplistic terms, vulnerability management is an element of cybersecurity that involves finding and remediating weaknesses in your computer systems to minimize ways hackers can negatively impact your business.
Incident Response Plan: How to Prepare for the Worst and Protect Your Business
Imagine learning that you’ve just experienced a cyber incident. A cyber incident might be one of your software vendors telling you they found your password on the dark web. Perhaps you log onto your computer only to see a ransomware message. Maybe you can’t log onto your computer — and no one at your company can. What should you do?
In the Crosshairs: 8 Ways to Engage Cybercriminals to Win the Cyber War
Many companies do cybersecurity wrong. They play defense with little to no thought of offense, allowing their weaknesses and vulnerabilities to be the focal point of their cyber strategy. Instead, they should build a program to engage the cybercriminal, allowing their strengths and resiliencies to guide their cyber strategy and win the cyber war.
In the Crosshairs: 4 Tips for Lessening the Likelihood of a Cyberattack
The vast majority of businesses live with the ongoing threat of a cyberattack. They possess money and data, which cybercriminals want to steal. Therefore, these businesses should do everything in their power to lessen the likelihood that an attack will be successful. But what does that look like?
6 Things to Look for in a Cyber Expert for Your Board of Directors
A board of directors (BoD) has the power to shape an organization significantly, which means it is also responsible for managing security. With the global cost of cybercrime expected to rise to $13.2 trillion by 2028, selecting a cybersecurity expert to sit on the board of directors should be a top priority for any company.
In the Crosshairs: 4 Principles for Assessing the Likelihood of a Cyberattack
You’ll learn how to assess the likelihood of a cyberattack on your business. Our goal is to help you clearly and systematically consider how susceptible you are to an attack and act on that knowledge proactively and proactively.
Preparing For the Next Wave of Data Privacy Obligations
Some things just are better together. Peanut butter and jelly. Coffee and cream. Batman and Robin. Salt and pepper. Security and privacy.
10 Password Security Best Practices
Password security is one of the easiest, cheapest, and most effective ways to strengthen cybersecurity, reduce cyber risk, and decrease costs.
How the SBOM Executive Order Helps Improve Cybersecurity
In the wake of major cyberattacks, such as December 2021’s Log4Shell, Congress and federal agencies have ramped up requirements for transparency in software supply chains. Software vendors are facing new requirements, including providing a software bill of materials, or SBOM, which can help improve cybersecurity measures.
5 Ways to Keep Your Kids Safe Online
Parenting in the digital age is no easy task, especially when it comes to keeping our kids safe online. We can have a dozen strategies, cutting-edge tech tools, and the best of intentions. The internet has more!
Cybersecurity Is Too Complicated. I’m Here to Decode It.
Since I can recall, cybersecurity has been far too complicated. Why? There are a few reasons, but a big one is that cybersecurity organizations are pushing new and overly complex ideas. They often want to pave a new industry standard or appeal to a tiny subset of the population.
Demystifying GRC in Cybersecurity: Governance, Risk, and Compliance Explained
GRC helps you manage the Governance, Risk, and Compliance aspects of your business. By bringing visibility and control to your software, GRC has big implications for cybersecurity as well.
Why You Need a Cyber Expert on Your Board of Directors
Cybersecurity has been a business risk for decades. The board of directors (BoD) has a responsibility to help manage that risk, but most BoDs don’t even have a cyber expert.
Advice for Leaders—Think Like Your Adversary
How do cyber bad actors, a.k.a., our adversaries, think? Easy, like the rest of us. Well, with a slightly different optic. If you're leading an organization, you are charged with staying one step ahead of your adversaries — your data, earnings, and business future depend on it.
Understanding and Mitigating Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risks
Protecting your company from cyber threats is hard enough — so why worry about anyone else? Because of supply chains. Because of Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 suppliers. Because you hire consultants and they hire subcontractors, every one of them is a potential vulnerability.
Building a Cybersecurity Team Structure: Best Practices
Every organization has a cybersecurity team. Some teams are big, some are small. Some invest a lot in protecting their companies, while others … take risks. It all depends.
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