Knowing about cybersecurity risks isn’t the same as protecting against them. For instance, a recent survey from the Pew Research Center found that just 12 percent of Americans... More
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Cybersecurity in Seven Minutes (CSM)
Exploring the Gap Between Cybersecurity Perception and Reality (Forbes)
Most company executives and security professionals have a reasonable understanding of cybersecurity. Even if they don’t fully understand the mechanics under the hood, they at lea... More
Nine Security Tips That Go Outside the Box (IBM Security Intelligence)
The great challenge of security is that you are not only battling Murphy’s Law — the universal tendency of things to go wrong — but also shrewd and malicious attackers who ar... More
Study: Zero-Day Exploits Develop Quickly (Threat Post)
It takes less than a month for most zero-day exploits to be developed, and about a quarter of those previously unknown and unpatched vulnerabilities will go undiscovered and undis... More
Cybersecurity Skills Shortage Holding Steady (Network World)
The cybersecurity skills shortage is nothing new—I’ve been writing about it for years, as have other analysts and researchers. I’ve also done countless presentations on this ... More
Consumer Reports to Factor Cybersecurity into Reviews (CNET)
Consumer Reports says it will start including cybersecurity and privacy safeguards in its product reviews. The nonprofit, which reviews everything from cars to appliances, has wor... More
Fewer than a Quarter of Cybersecurity Job Candidates are Qualified (Dark Reading)
Sobering news on the cybersecurity hiring front: More than 20% of organizations get fewer than five applicants for an open security job and more than half of all positions (55%) ta... More
Roadmap to a $200,000 Cybersecurity Job (Dark Reading)
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 o... More
How to Start a Lucrative Career in Cybersecurity (Forbes)
Cybersecurity is an in-demand field. Growing cyber attacks, demand for safe and secure data, and other concerns mean that companies need professionals to keep their information saf... More
20 Cybersecurity Startups To Watch In 2017 (Dark Reading)
In spite of a slowdown in the overall funding activity from venture capital firms in 2016, the cybersecurity market continued to raise money at full steam. Last year saw the market... More