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How 400 Barclays Security Professionals Upgraded their Cyber Skills

As an international bank, Barclays needed to invest more in its information security training in order to minimize risk and ensure business continuity. The goal was learn and teach the modern way to minimize a security breach posed by the latest advanced threats. Cyber sieges immerse teams in real-world cyberattack...

Making the Business Case for Cyber Skills Training

The day-to-day pressures of being a CISO are enormous and extend to matters far beyond those of incident response time. Meanwhile, traditional approaches to training cybersecurity team members have either been limited by scalability, lack of hands-on learning, or cost. So, how much can Simulation-based Cybersecurity...

Unemployment Fraud Targets Executive Suite

Unemployment fraud incidents have spiked in the past year, and high-salaried senior executives are often the fraudsters’ victims. Dr. Christopher Pierson of BlackCloak describes how these scams are pulled off, what impact they have and how the CISO can bolster defenses. "When a 20- or 30-person executive team is...

The 10 Essential Capabilities of a Best-of-Breed SOAR

Ask a group of security analysts about the challenges of working in cybersecurity, and you'll likely hear some common themes, like a high volume of security alerts, too many security point-products to manage, and a shortage of skilled cybersecurity talent. Many teams have turned to security orchestration,...

Stopping BEC and EAC

Business email compromise (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) are complex problems that require multi-layered defenses. Cyber attackers have countless ways of tricking your users, preying on their trust and exploiting their access to key data, systems and resources. To succeed, attackers need to find just...

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The Quick & Dirty Guide to Cybersecurity Training

Cybersecurity training: from dry-as-dust videos to cutesy animations of hapless office workers to streams of green code on a black screen. The variety out there is staggering, and it’s hard to know where to start – or what's really going to work. Luckily, the most effective forms of training – for all teams,...

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The Psychology of Cyber: How Micro-Drilling Enhances Crisis Response

'Mega breaches' might sound dystopian, but they're becoming an all too familiar feature of the modern cyber crisis. Yet organizations are still relying on traditional techniques to prepare and exercise their workforces' cyber crisis response. Enter micro-drilling: the modern alternative to tabletop exercising. In...

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Osterman Research: Cyber Crisis Response – Fit For Today’s Threat Landscape?

Cyber crisis response and preparedness is on everyone’s lips, yet organizations’ efforts are failing to adapt to modern threats. While table top exercises have long been considered an essential tool in preparing organizations to face cyber crises, they’re now rapidly falling into obsolescence. So what’s the...

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eBook | Aligning Cyber Skills to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework

In order to keep pace with hackers, you need to learn like hackers. That’s why when it comes to guidance on building detection and response programs, MITRE ATT&CK® – which has a strong adversarial focus – trumps traditional frameworks such as the Diamond Model (which lacks technical depth), and Lockheed...

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eBook | The Ultimate Cyber Skills Strategy Cheat Sheet

No one needs more stats about the skills gap in cybersecurity; many organizations are obviously facing challenges in recruiting, skilling, and retaining security professionals. We haven’t written this cheat sheet to tell you what you already know. Instead, we will outline a realistic strategy for workforce-wide...

The Top Mainframe Security Threats of 2020

Real-world penetration and security assessments have uncovered the most common risks to mainframe security. What are they? Download this infographic for a brief, yet detailed synopsis.

Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report 2020

Every Tuesday, Microsoft releases fixes for all vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products, and this report compiles these releases into a year-long overview, creating a holistic view of trends related to vulnerabilities and how many Microsoft vulnerabilities could be mitigated if admin rights were removed from...

No Blindspots Toolkit

The evolution of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) has introduced a new spectrum of benefits for enterprises. The speed, scalability, and ease of set up have made the virtualized computing services of public cloud extremely attractive to enterprises. Unfortunately, the very nature of these dynamic, distributed, and...

Survey Report: Cybersecurity Insiders 2020 AWS Cloud Security Report

Organizations continue to rapidly migrate business applications from datacenters to the cloud, utilizing new technologies such as serverless, containers, and machine learning to benefit from increased efficiency, better scalability, and faster deployments from cloud computing. The 2020 AWS Cloud Security Report is...

EMA Evaluation Guide to Privileged Access Management (PAM)

This EMA Evaluation Guide is intended to provide actionable guidance on the key elements to consider when selecting a PAM solution and how to ensure the investment achieves organizational requirements for security and usability. Download this guide now to better understand how modern PAM solutions offer among the...