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Demand for Cybersecurity Jobs Remains Strong

There were nearly 770,000 openings for cybersecurity jobs for the 12-month period ending in September 2022, according to CyberSeek.

October 21, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Cybersecurity professionals continue to be a hot commodity, with demand for them straining talent availability, according to cybersecurity workforce analytics platform CyberSeek. Developed in partnership with National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education at NIST, Lightcast and CompTIA, CyberSeek in a new study says there were nearly 770,000 openings for cybersecurity jobs for the 12-month period ending in […]

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022: Helping Businesses Mitigate Risk

To better understand current cybersecurity best practices and what the future looks like, My TechDecisions spoke to a range of industry experts on the topic.

October 21, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Cybersecurity Awareness Month marks a time in the year when a great emphasis is placed on helping individuals and businesses protect themselves online as threats to technology and confidential data become more commonplace. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, businesses worldwide have accelerated their digitalization. Now, with businesses leveraging digital solutions more than ever before, […]

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Organizations in All Sectors Lack Tools and Teams to Address Cybersecurity Threats

Research from Blackberry shows organizations across all industries are struggling with maintaining and improving their overall cybersecurity posture.

October 7, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

The latest research from Blackberry, the Waterloo, Ontario-headquartered provider of security software and services, shows organizations across all industries are struggling with maintaining and improving their overall cybersecurity posture. However, extended detection and response (XDR) solutions may be able to help. The survey of 405 senior IT, networking and security decision-makers in the U.S., Canada […]

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What One Cybersecurity Company is Doing to Help Close the Workforce Gap

Cybersecurity provider Trellix says organizations' cybersecurity defenders don't necessarily have to come from a technical background.

September 29, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

In an effort designed to help close the cybersecurity industry’s 2.72 million global workforce gap, cybersecurity firm Trellix is launching new initiatives and partnerships aimed at creating a new pipeline of cybersecurity professionals. The company, which announced its Soulful Work initiative earlier this year, is adding on and expanding that work, executives said at Trellix’s […]

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CompTIA: Organizations Need New Approaches to Cybersecurity

As IT operations and strategy have grown more complex, so has the management of cybersecurity, says CompTIA.

September 28, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Fortifying cybersecurity defenses remains a work in progress for many organizations, but many have yet to commit to the necessary resources to the effort, reveals research from CompTIA, the Downers Grove, Ill.-based nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry and workforce. A Q3 2022 study of technology and business professionals involved in cybersecurity feel […]

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Building a Foundation for Zero Trust with Cybersecurity Mesh

A cybersecurity mesh architecture (CSMA) goes beyond ZTA and suggests a deeper, better integrated layer of security.

August 31, 2022 Wes Wright Leave a Comment

It seems like there are more acronyms, labels and methods for bolstering security than ever before – and making sense of them all is proving to be just as complex as the infrastructure they’re meant to secure. One widely embraced term, zero-trust architecture (ZTA), calls for continually vetting users as they access different applications and […]

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GlobalData: Cybersecurity Revenue in Insurance Set to Grow at 10% CAGR

Cybersecurity revenues in the insurance sector are set to grow at a CAGR of more than 10% from $6.4 billion in 2020 to $10.6 billion in 2025.

August 12, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

The digital world is a minefield for insurers at the moment, with giants AXA, CNA Financial, Tokio Marine and Marsh & McLennan suffering cyberattacks in 2021. Against this backdrop, cybersecurity revenues in the insurance sector are set to grow at a compound annual growth rate of more than 10% from $6.4 billion in 2020 to […]

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Tech Companies Create Open-Source Cybersecurity Data Framework

A group of software and cybersecurity companies led by AWS, Splunk and Broadcom are launching a new security data normalization framework.

August 11, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

A consortium of leading software and cybersecurity companies led by AWS, Splunk and Symantec have announced a new open-source effort to break down data silos that they say are impeding security teams. The companies at Black Hat USA 2022 in Las Vegas this week announced the launch of the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework project to […]

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Infosec Launches Free Educational Resources for Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Infosec Institute has launched new free educational resources designed to help organizations increase their cyber skills and awareness.

August 10, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Cybersecurity training and education organization Infosec Institute has launched new free educational resources designed to help organizations and their employees level up their cybersecurity chops during Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) in October. The organization is providing what it calls a comprehensive security awareness and training toolkit that features a training module for all employees, an […]

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