Aiming for a Security Career? Consider a Liberal Arts Degree

A liberal arts education, supplemented with technical training and extracurricular experience, can set students up for successful careers in cybersecurity.

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The Educator’s Back-to-School Cybersecurity Checklist: Make Mitigating Command Injection a Priority

To protect students, parents and teachers from data theft, academic institutions must adopt comprehensive strategies to mitigate command injection attacks.

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Leading by Example: Security and Privacy in the Education Sector

Today’s students must grapple with security and privacy issues, such as identity theft and financial fraud, that could affect them well past graduation.

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Security companies give public free way to sift through malware research

Cybersecurity companies spend a lot of money on their research and the infrastructure they build to conduct it, so it’s counter-intuitive that they would give it away — but that’s exactly what two of the biggest firms are doing this summer. Comodo recently announced Comodemia, a program that would make its vast database on more than 120 million malware incidents — and the analytics engines used to mine it for insights — available online for university, government, and nonprofit researchers and educators. “Many researchers currently spend the majority of their time building the tools and the environment they need to do code compiling, malware analysis, phishing detection … It can take months before the real research can even begin,” explained Fatih Orhan, Comodo’s vice president of threat labs. “That’s where we can offer a benefit.” A list of features Comodemia would offer include: “A feed, accessible in realtime of all the threat data we collect […]

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Five Ways Enterprises Can Close the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

To reduce the effects of the cybersecurity skills gap, organizations should ditch traditional recruiting methods and think outside the box.

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Changing How We Educate and Hire With a New Collar Approach

Who said you need a degree to work in IT? A new collar approach to recruiting can help organizations close the cybersecurity skills gap.

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Bringing Systems Integration Skills to Cybersecurity Degree Students

The Enterprise Cyber Security (ECS) module teaches cybersecurity degree students to think of security as a system of interrelated, integrated components.

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Closing the Awareness Gap Requires a Team Effort

The effort to close the cybersecurity awareness gap requires collaboration and coordination between multiple academic and professional stakeholders.

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