Category: Training & Certification

Black Hat 2022: Ten Presentations Worth Your Time and Attention

LAS VEGAS – The security industry makes its annual pilgrimage to the hot Sonoran desert this week for skills training, hacking demos, research presentations and cybersecurity vendors showing off shiny new products.

Cybrary Raises $25 Million to Tackle Cybersecurity Workforce Training

Venture capital investors are doubling down on investments in Cybrary, betting another $25 million that the Maryland startup is on the right track with a technology platform to train the global cybersecurity workforce.

Managed detection and response (MDR) platform provider Huntress has shelled out $22 million to acquire Curricula, a startup in the growing security awareness business.

Huntress, based in Ellicott City, Maryland, said the deal adds a fun, story-based security awareness training platform to its stable of cybersecurity offerings.

The infamous North Korean Lazarus hacking group is the prime suspect in the $100 million hack of Harmony’s Horizon Bridge, according to new data and research from blockchain analytics firm Elliptic.

RSAC22 and Infosecurity Europe, Three Weeks, Two Events

In the last couple of years, events were taken online, moved to virtual forums and conducted using social platforms via video set-up. Events became simpler to attend, but the individual component of the experience was missing – we all wanted to mix with our peers and see the eyes of a vendor as they pitch their latest message for automation, intelligence, analytics, or response solutions for cybersecurity.

CISA-Funded Project Enables Students With Disabilities to Learn Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity workforce development organization CYBER.ORG on Monday announced the launch of Project Access, a national effort to provide cybersecurity education to blind and visually impaired students.

Biden Signs Two Cybersecurity Bills Into Law

Two bipartisan cybersecurity bills were signed into law on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, by US President Joe Biden: the Federal Rotational Cyber Workforce Program Act of 2021, and the State and Local Government Cybersecurity Act of 2021.

Using the Defense Readiness Index to Improve Security Team Skills

The challenges organizations face in developing cyber skills have never been more acute. Too often, security teams find themselves locked into reactive modes, continuously responding to immediate threats without being afforded the time to learn from them, so there’s no opportunity to cross-train and upskill is missed.

Cybersecurity Courses Ramp Up Amid Shortage of Professionals

The pressure was on. Someone, somewhere, was attacking computer systems so customers couldn’t reach certain websites. In a windowless room in Denver, Zack Privette had worked all morning with his security team to figure out what the cyber strangers were up to.