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October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM). NCSAM is a great initiative to help educate and inform our friends and family on the importance of taking your digital security seriously. Week Three in particular aims to help users fuse cybe… Continue reading NCSAM: It’s Everyone’s Job to Ensure Online Safety at Work
Recently, I spoke with Stu and Dave, the founders of “The Many Hats Club.” I´d seen quite a few people talking about it on social media, so I wanted to find out what all the fuss was about. Here is how our conversation went: Joe Pettit… Continue reading The Many Hats Club: Color Doesn’t Matter
Data Privacy Day began in the USA in 2008 as an extension of Data Protection Day in Europe. Since then, The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) has led this international effort, which is held annually on January 28 to help create awareness about t… Continue reading Data Privacy Day: Expert Advice to Help Keep Your Data Private
With 2017 coming to a close, we wanted to give our readers an overview of some of the most interesting, educational, and standout blogs from the year to help fill the time between Christmas and the New Year. My favourite State of Security blogs from 20… Continue reading The Top 10 State of Security Articles of 2017
As most of you know, Halloween is upon us! It isn’t just a time for Steven King movies and trick-or-treating, but it’s also a time to reflect back on some of our own horror stories in IT. To help celebrate Halloween, we have asked some folks from the security industry to share their scary security […]… Read More
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Friday, August 18th was Bad Poetry Day. To celebrate, Tripwire decided to ask some of it’s employees and friends in the community to share some of their security poems with us. Some folks tweeted theirs out using the hashtag #tripwirebadpoetryday. Others sent them in. Here are some of our favorites: Roses are red, Violets are […]… Read More
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In recent posts, The State of Security has interviewed teachers who are helping to bring cyber security education to Canada’s schools. We would be remiss, however, if we didn’t recognize others’ efforts to bring these types of training programs online and to institutions located elsewhere around the world. To cover this broader trend, we’ll now […]… Read More
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A new report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) states that cybercrime is on the raise in England and Wales. According to the report, adults aged 16 and over experienced an estimated 5.8 million incidents in the past 12 months, with 3.8 million of those classified as fraud and another 2 million as computer […]… Read More
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On July 5th, the European Commission signed an agreement to fund research in cybersecurity, and they want private security firms to help. The initiative is being launched to help the EU tackle the growing cyber security issue and to make the industry more competitive. In the release, the EU states it will invest €450 million […]… Read More
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Yesterday, we at The State of Security recapped some notable presentations from the first day of Infosecurity Europe 2016. We now present our Day Two coverage of this year’s Infosecurity Europe conference. Advanced Incident Investigation: Lessons Learned From APT Victims Speaker: Lee Lawson, member of the Counter Threat Unit Special Operations, Dell SecureWorks Throughout history, we […]… Read More
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