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Today's columnist, Nir Polak of Exabeam, says organizations such as Girls Who Code can play a major role in attracting more diversity to the cyber workforce and help solve the talent gap.

Instead of punishing or shaming your team for failing phishing simulations or similarly exercises within your training module, use analytics to see where they’re falling short and uncover why.

Your end users are your biggest source of risk. To mitigate this risk, you train and educate your users on security policy, but training and education is not enough.

Lockheed Martin holds a Sustaining Women in STEM conference in March 2016. Today’s columnist, Ralitsa Miteva of OneSpan, says even with all the progress, the industry must do a better job attracting women into STEM and cyber careers.

Part of this preparedness means understanding how potential legislation could reshape cybersecurity efforts.

CyberRisk Alliance Senior Research Engineer Adrian Sanabria talks with Derek Manky, chief of Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs to discuss highlights of the latest global threat report.

FBI Director Christopher Wray has warned security teams that companies in the financial sector will see a rise in credential stuff attacks for several months to come. Today’s columnist, Alex Heid, says security teams have to assume user passwords have been compromised and move to a continuous monitoring strategy.