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Talking Infosec Awareness and Training with Kaspersky Labs’ David Emm

Shortly before the chaos of Infosecurity Europe, I joined David Emm, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab, for lunch in a lovely quiet gastro pub in the Oxfordshire countryside. Whilst I frequently publish Emm’s quotes and photos in the magazine, we both agreed that this was most likel ...

Posted 03 May 2013 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: Kaspersky, Infosecurity, Awareness, Security, Cybersecurity

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At War with the World

In February, security firm Mandiant made headlines when they declared the hacking team APT1, “likely government-sponsored and one of the most persistent of China’s cyber threat actors”. China denied the involvement. Reuters reported that Hong Lei of the Chinese Foreign Ministry re ...

Posted 18 April 2013 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: Cyber , Espionage, Cold War, Cybersecurity

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Of Sequestration & Cybersecurity Frustrations…

With sequestration cuts underway across the federal government, and the plight of the federal information security workforce being traditionally viewed as non-mission essential, one can only hope that the historically underfunded budgets of the federal CISO will survive the carving knives of the seq ...

Posted 29 March 2013 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)

tags: sequestration, cybersecurity

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Finally, a Step Forward in Cybersecurity

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Posted 21 February 2013 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)

tags: cybersecurity, executive order, Obama, education

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Cybersecurity’s “Fiscal Cliff”

Regardless of how the profession has evolved, or what the specific challenges are facing your sector, one thing has remained constant in the information security field for some time: the demand for qualified professionals has generated nearly full employment for the industry. This comes at a time wh ...

Posted 13 December 2012 by Drew Amorosi

tags: cybersecurity, fiscal cliff, US government, sequestration

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A New Starting Point: Re-booting to Help Transition Veterans

Going back as far as 2007, the (ISC)² Government Advisory Board (GAB) along with the ISSA-Northern Virginia Chapter Board, have been attempting to develop partnerships with veterans’ organizations in an effort to support veterans transitioning to a civilian career in informat ...

Posted 12 September 2012 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)

tags: veterans, information security, career development, cybersecurity

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Deploying Advanced Cybersecurity Intelligence

During a speech in June 2012, Jonathan Evans, the chief of the UK’s home security agency MI5, stated that it was “fighting 'astonishing' levels of cyber-attacks”. The worry is not just about the number, but the sophistication and the degree of targeting of individual people and org ...

Posted 14 August 2012 by Bob Tarzey

tags: cybersecurity, ASI, SIEM

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Centralized Decision-making Is Essential to Cybersecurity

American politicians love to bash the Europeans. A common refrain during many campaigns here in the states is ‘my opponent’s policies will make us more like Europe’, as if the entire continent was a monolithic monster spewing forth a subversive socialist agenda. I would like to thi ...

Posted 13 June 2012 by Drew Amorosi

tags: cybersecurity, cyber terrorism, Stuxnet

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Changing Workforce Dynamics: Unleash the Power of the Professional Community

By the (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB) The title of a recent InformationWeek article, “Skills Shortage? Quit Whining” caught our attention. In the article, the author highlights data from a recent Deloitte Consulting survey, which report ...

Posted 19 April 2012 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)

tags: training, education, public sector, cybersecurity

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Should Cybersecurity be Treated as a Profession? Your Opinion Counts

By the (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB) It takes many, many years for a business area of focus to emerge as a recognized profession. Certainly, cybersecurity is moving in that direction. How does one know? When the US government launches an initiative like t ...

Posted 16 December 2011 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)

tags: cybersecurity, education, training

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The UK Cyber Security Strategy – is this really progress?

A UK Cyber Security Strategy has just been released by the Cabinet Office. The first thing I noted was that seven of its 43 pages are have a solid colour background but are otherwise blank – that's 16% completely wasted space. But as I read on I gradually came to the conclusion th ...

Posted 29 November 2011 by Mike Barwise

tags: cybersecurity, UK

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So, What Makes You a Cyber ‘Expert’?

By the (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB) How many cybersecurity practitioners have had a colleague either in information technology (IT), or worse yet, from an unrelated field, offer advice on security matters and insist that they are a cybersecur ...

Posted 22 August 2011 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)

tags: cybersecurity

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Make the wrong career move, and you just may become structurally unemployed

A recent Washington Post article, “The great jobs mismatch”, points out that structural unemployment is caused by a mismatch between types of positions available and those who have the wrong skill sets to meet them. The information technology area, particularly information security, has ...

Posted 30 June 2011 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)

tags: cybersecurity

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What, if Any, Cybersecurity Workforce Implications Resulted From the Averted Government Shutdown?

While the Federal Government shutdown was averted thanks to some last-minute political gerrymandering and concessions by both sides of the aisle, it’s quite instructive to reflect on the implications of shutdown on the federal cybersecurity workforce, including contracts and contractors. More ...

Posted 12 May 2011 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)

tags: cybersecurity, public sector, federal budget

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Cybersecurity: The Road Ahead

This paper by the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) was just brought to my attention. A piece of work that is definitely worth reading through. It lays out the problem space and then does a deep dive into the different sections: Governments Legislative Bo ...

Posted 14 April 2011 by Roger Halbheer

tags: Cybersecurity, Legislation

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Cyber attacks, power grids, and Mary Poppins

"A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.." Or at least, that's what Mary Poppins says. Personally, I have my doubts about her training as a medical professional – anyone who talks to their umbrella really shouldn't be prescribing drugs to minors if you ask me. So ...

Posted 12 November 2010 by Geoff Webb

tags: Power grid, Cybersecurity

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Proposed cybersecurity bill: stop calling it a “Kill Switch”

Unless I am mistaken – and not being a lawyer, this is a distinct possibility – but the cybersecurity bill proposed in the senate earlier this month does nothing to create a so-called “kill switch” for the internet, one that would allow the president to disable the entire int ...

Posted 22 June 2010 by Drew Amorosi

tags: cybersecurity, public sector, public policy, cyberattack

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Should the Government be able to enforce security updates?

This is actually an interesting question. A lot of governments enforce rules and regulations on how you have to run your car, how often you have to check it, in which condition you have to keep your tires, etc. The same is true for a lot of other devices we are using. Now, it seems that the US just ...

Posted 12 June 2010 by Roger Halbheer

tags: Legislation, Cybersecurity

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Looking back at Infosecurity Europe 2010

Late April was highlighted by my first trip to Infosecurity Europe in London. While I understand that this event received its fair share of criticism in the press for being past its prime, there were certainly aspects of the conference that made it worthwhile to attend. (In all fairness, I must disc ...

Posted 10 May 2010 by Drew Amorosi

tags: cybersecurity, Infosecurity Europe

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International Collaboration on Policies for Cybersecurity and Data Protection

For a few years we have been working with the Council of Europe in a partnership to help to drive a Cybersecurity treaty. We realise that a problem a lot of law enforcement agencies have is inconsistent legislation, which makes it unbelievably hard to catch cybercriminals. The Co ...

Posted 05 November 2009 by Roger Halbheer

tags: Cybercrime, Policies, cybersecurity

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