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Is Information Security the Right Profession for Me?

Linux Academy

Wondering if information security is the right profession for you? I’ve been working in information security for many years and have had the opportunity to fill a variety of roles. In this post, I’ll fill you in about some of the available jobs in information security and what it takes to succeed in each one.

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How to Improve Your Organization’s Cyber Resiliency

CIO Business Intelligence

Now, leading organizations are going further, embracing a cyberresilience paradigm designed to bring agility to incident response while ensuring sustainable business operations, whatever the event or impact. This checks that systems have the appropriate levels of protections to remain operational in the event of a cyberincident.

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Best practices for developing an actionable cyberresilience road map

CIO Business Intelligence

Now, leading organizations are going further, embracing a cyberresilience paradigm designed to bring agility to incident response while ensuring sustainable business operations, whatever the event or impact. It’s about making sure there are regular test exercises that ensure that the data backup is going to be useful if worse comes to worst.”

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The Importance of an Online Encryption Policy

CTOvision

IBM’s latest Cyber Security Intelligence index report shows that: 1.5 There is a 12% year-to-year increase in security events to educate and inform organizations. There are 91,765,453 security events annually. About the author: Dan Virgillito is cyber security expert living in the United Kingdom.

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Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a secure networking option

CIO Business Intelligence

The Verizon Threat Research Advisory Center provides monthly webinars packed with insightful analysis to help unmask threat actors’ evolving tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), and provides other insights to help you stay informed.

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Ransomware Attack Hits Carnival Cruise Corporation: What We Know

SecureWorld News

Here is Carnival Corporation's ransomware and cyber incident statement, in full: On August 15, 2020, Carnival Corporation and Carnival plc (together, the "Company," "we," "us," or "our") detected a ransomware attack that accessed and encrypted a portion of one brand’s information technology systems.

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The chaotic and cinematic MGM casino hack, explained

Vox

This was the backup plan; the group initially planned to hack the company’s slot machines but weren’t able to, the representative claimed. Although, again, another group seems to be denying that Scattered Spider did any of the attacks, or at least how the events have been reported isn’t accurate.