On this episode of the My TechDecisions Podcast, we speak with Om Moolchandani, Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at Accurics, a cloud cyber resilience company, about President Joe Biden’s executive order on cybersecurity. Biden signed the order in May to modernize federal cybersecurity and implement concepts like Zero Trust and multi-factor authentication, […]
Chris Loehr, executive vice president of Austin, Texas-based MSSP Solis Security, about how to manage stress in today’s hectic cybersecurity climate.
John Shier, senior security advisor at cybersecurity firm Sophos, joins the podcast to talk about how to safely reintroduce devices to school networks.
James Stranger, chief technology evangelist at CompTIA, joins the podcast to talk about how and why cybersecurity training needs to change.
As the world grapples with a pandemic, politics, social justice issues and other global crises, cybercriminals are taking advantage of those distractions and are launching attacks at a rapid pace. Cybersecurity and antivirus company Bitdefender found that pandemic-related attacks increased five-fold in the first two weeks of March. In May and June, an average of 60% […]
According to cybersecurity researchers, 28 browser extensions on Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome contain malware, and they’ve been downloaded by more than three million people. In a blog post, cybersecurity firm Avast said it has analyzed 28 malicious browser extensions after a group of Czech researchers identified the threat and found extensions to contain malware. […]
U.S. cybersecurity officials are warning K-12 educators of an uptick in cyberattacks designed to exploit and disrupt distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. As schools everywhere continue to rely on critical IT services to support distance learning via videoconferencing and collaboration tools, cybercriminals are taking notice. Bad actors are targeting schools with ransomware, data theft […]
Nation-state hackers with access to advanced tools broke into the network of U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye and stole tools it uses to test the network defenses of its customers, the company announced Tuesday. According to a statement from FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia, the attacker appears to be highly sophisticated and has access to advanced tools […]
Cybersecurity membership association (ISC)² in a new report says the global cybersecurity workforce needs to grow 89% worldwide to fill the talent gap. That talent gap, according to the organization, is the top concern of IT professionals as the cybersecurity workforce gap actually began to close for the first time ever as the industry added […]
According to cybersecurity firm Sophos, the growing threat of ransomware tops the list of threats that will shape IT security trends in 2021. The company’s 2021 Threat Report written by security researchers, threat hunters, rapid responders, cloud security and AI experts, details how cybersecurity threats like ransomware are evolving and becoming more sophisticated. The report […]
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