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Financial institutions launch their own cyber range to train defenders, test tools

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Banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions are banding together to design and build a series of cyber ranges — computer environments where defenders can exercise, train and test tools to defend their real computer networks against online attackers. The initiative, by the Financial Sector Information Sharing and Analysis Council, or FS-ISAC, has already built out the first range and will stage the first exercise on it at the end of November at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, according to Shaun Brady, a consultant with FS-ISAC. “Some will be there physically, others will take part remotely,” Brady told CyberScoop on the fringes of the Integrated Cyber Conference staged by the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab as part of DC CyberWeek. The sector “does a great job with table top exercises,” said Brady, but those are more policy and management orientated. There was a dearth of “hands-on-keyboards” style war games, he said. Eventually, […]

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Recruitment and retention of ‘cyber ninjas’ doesn’t have to be a dark art, report says

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Those on the front lines of the cybersecurity workforce crisis are dogged by one question above all others: how to recruit and retain the highly technically skilled personnel they need. Now, thanks to the SANS Institute, they have some fresh answers — at least in the government contracting sector. The institute, an information-security training provider and research clearinghouse, analyzed a list of the top 100 U.S. government contractors, and identified the eight companies which score highest on two indices reflecting metrics developed by the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank last year. The eight firms are all major U.S. defense and intelligence  contractors, called systems integrators because they build IT and other business systems for the government by assembling hardware, software and services from multiple vendors. According to the SANS analysis, the eight companies have had “remarkable success” in recruiting and retaining the highly technically skilled individuals that the CSIS report dubbed “cyber […]

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