The concept of venture going to a business focused on education and training, rather than emerging technology, is not a typical one. But it's acknowledgement that technology alone will not address today's threat landscape. ThriveDX targets people looking to make a career change, with plans to also integrate training into undergraduate and graduate programs at universities.
How do you convince a boss that a publicly discussed threat isn't a real threat, as was apparently the case about an app athletes must use at the Beijing Winter Olympics?
There are approximately 600,000 open cybersecurity positions in the United States. SAP-Yale alliance looks to mitigate talent gap and promote industry diversity.
The engagements will be structured around four lines of effort that will “serve as an investment in creating a robust and accessible pool of qualified cyber professionals, including future workforce issues, applied cyber research, applied analytics and strategic issues."
Security awareness training ramped up among FSIs large and small, as a means to prevent cyber-intrusion — particularly as many struggle with infrequent customers access and hold very critical financial data. For this final piece in a three-part series examining the threats and challenges facing financial advisers, SC Media looked at such tactics as a means to improve the state of play.
As the COVID-19 pandemic extends into yet another year, having a remote workforce will continue to challenge IT and security teams, cybersecurity experts predict. Recruiting and retaining cyber talent will also continue to be a challenge for the industry, while compliance and data leaks, including leaked chats, will prove a headache for human resources.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is planning to contract with industry next year on a pair of projects: one to further build out the government’s national, multi-stakeholder cybersecurity exercises, and another to develop new analytic capabilities to predict vulnerabilities and threats to the global supply chain.
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