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The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for hackers and online scammers, and cybersecurity pros saw a 63 percent increase in cyber-attacks related to the pandemic, according to a survey by ISSA and ESG. Organizations were f… Continue reading The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on cybersecurity
The cybersecurity skills crisis continues to worsen for the fourth year in a row and has impacted 70 percent of organizations, as revealed in a global study of cybersecurity professionals by ISSA and ESG. Cybersecurity profession crisis The top ramific… Continue reading Lack of training, career development, and planning fuel the cybersecurity profession crisis
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and the International Systems Security Association (ISSA) announced that the two parties have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on a variety of initiatives with the goal of both supporting and s… Continue reading Cloud Security Alliance and ISSA unite to build, support, and strengthen the cybersecurity community
Where do we stand with the management of cybersecurity risk? Answer … Not in a good place. This position was further augmented upon reading an article in the January 23, 2020 Washington Post by Anna Fifield with the title “Wuhan quarantine … Continue reading Cybersecurity Risk Management … Beyond the “Golden Period”
Candy Alexander is the President of Information Systems Security Association. Ms. Alexander has 30 years of information security experience working for various high-tech companies. She has held several positions as CISO (Chief Information Security … Continue reading Candy Alexander, ISSA – Enterprise Security Weekly #138
The cybersecurity skills shortage is worsening for the third year in a row and has impacted nearly three quarters (74 percent) of organizations, as revealed in the third annual global study of cybersecurity professionals by the Information Systems Secu… Continue reading Cybersecurity skills shortage still the root cause of rising security incidents
This past week I attended the 2018 ISSA International Conference in Atlanta. I’ve attended the last 4 conferences (San Diego, Austin, Chicago, Orlando). There were good and bad points about this year’s conference. I’m not sure where t… Continue reading 2018 ISSA International Conference
There are several local security conferences coming up in my general area, some of which I’ll be speaking at.
Here are the ones over the next few months:
* SecureMiami 2018, co-located with BrewMiami. Organized by DigitalEra, this is the second t… Continue reading Upcoming Conferences in early 2018
HolisticInfoSec’s Russ McRee was pleased to be added to ISSA International’s Honor Roll this month, a lifetime achievement award recognizing an individual’s sustained contributions to the information security community, the advancement of the association and enhancement of the professionalism of the membership.
According to the press release:
“Russ McRee has a strong history in the information security as a teacher, practitioner and writer. He is responsible for 107 technical papers published in the ISSA Journal under his Toolsmith byline in 2006-2015. These articles represent a body of knowledge for the hands-on practitioner that is second to none. These titles span an extremely wide range of deep network security topics. Russ has been an invited speaker at the key international computer security venues including DEFCON, Derby Con, BlueHat, Black Hat, SANSFIRE, RSA, and ISSA International.”
Russ greatly appreciates this honor and would like to extend congratulations to the ten other ISSA 2017 award winners. Sincere gratitude to Briana and Erin McRee, Irvalene Moni, Eric Griswold, Steve Lynch, and Thom Barrie for their extensive support over these many years.
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HolisticInfoSec’s Russ McRee was pleased to be added to ISSA International’s Honor Roll this month, a lifetime achievement award recognizing an individual’s sustained contributions to the information security community, the advancement of the associati… Continue reading McRee added to ISSA’s Honor Roll for Lifetime Achievement