Collaborate Disseminate
During the Virus Bulletin closing keynote, Brian Honan urged the security industry to share more, victim-shame less and work harder to establish trust. Continue reading Security Industry Failing to Establish Trust
BH Consulting, an information security specialist company, has launched a Masters Scholarship programme to encourage talented people to enter the cybersecurity market. Under the programme, a successful applicant will start a fulltime traineeship role as an information security analyst, while studying for a fully paid two-year MSc in Applied Cyber Security at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown. Once their study period is complete, the candidate will continue in their role at BH Consulting. The scholarship … More → Continue reading BH Consulting launches scholarship programme to address infosec skills gap
European research by PAC and Reliance acsn has outlined the challenges and concerns that security professionals across Europe are facing and how they approach the serious issue of outsourcing functions. One of the key findings of the report was that compliance and GDPR were not seen as important reasons for employing third party security firms, despite the need for detailed knowledge to comply with regulations. When first appointing an MSSP, cost savings are overwhelmingly listed … More → Continue reading European businesses not seeking help from the security industry ahead of GDPR
Nine months after the launch of the No More Ransom (NMR) project, an ever-growing number of law enforcement and private partners have joined the initiative, allowing more victims of ransomware to get their files back without paying the criminals. The platform is now available in 14 languages and contains 40 free decryption tools. Since the last report in December, more than 10 000 victims from all over the world have been able to decrypt their … More → Continue reading 15 new ransomware decryption tools added to No More Ransom
We have lost the cyber war. No, not that cyber war. Maybe war of words is a better way to put it. Whether we like it or not, cyber has become the default way for everyone else to talk about what we do. The term cyber has been on my mind a lot because we’ve been going through the process of redeveloping the BH Consulting website, an exercise that’s prompted a lively internal debate about … More → Continue reading Like it or not, “cyber” is a shorthand for all things infosec
After the year we’ve had, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that cybersecurity skills are heavily in demand. Breaches, attacks and incidents have never been far from the headlines, so as boards and businesses pay closer attention, they’re adjusting their hiring plans to ensure they’re protected. But a new study from recruiter Indeed.com found severe cybersecurity shortages persist in every country. The report uses two years worth of data, and it tells us that Israel … More → Continue reading Security skills gap? What security skills gap?