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Ways to Develop a Cybersecurity Training Program for Employees

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity experts would have you believe that your organization’s employees have a crucial role in bolstering or damaging your company’s security initiatives. Now is the moment to train your personnel on security best practices, if you haven’t already. Customize Your Security Training.

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Q&A: How certifying in-house IT staffers as cyber analysts, pen testers can boost SMB security

The Last Watchdog

A security-first mindset is beginning to seep into the ground floor of the IT departments of small and mid-sized companies across the land. Related: The ‘gamification’ of cybersecurity training. LW: How do CompTIA’s training programs and certifications come into play? The exposure faced by SMBs is profound.

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GUEST ESSAY: Why corporate culture plays such a pivotal role in deterring data breaches

The Last Watchdog

Related podcast: The case for ‘zero-trust’ security. As you’ve probably surmised, the castles are meant to represent a business’s security infrastructure. Having strong security infrastructure is all well and good, but you cannot afford to forget your people. A cybersecurity culture is change-driven at its core.

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How Hackers Evade Detection

eSecurity Planet

Classic security tools are necessary but less and less sufficient. That’s why most security companies are now focusing on behavioral analysis and active endpoint protection , as evasion keeps becoming easier. As a result, more and more security tools are relying on AI and ML techniques to detect signs of zero-day threats.

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Kali Linux Penetration Testing Tutorial: Step-By-Step Process

eSecurity Planet

Kali Linux turns 10 this year, and to celebrate, the Linux penetration testing distribution has added defensive security tools to its arsenal of open-source security tools. For now, Kali is primarily known for its roughly 600 open source pentesting tools, allowing pentesters to easily install a full range of offensive security tools.

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MY TAKE: How advanced automation of threat intel sharing has quickened incident response

The Last Watchdog

Related: Ground zero for cybersecurity research Having covered the cybersecurity industry for the past 15 years, it’s clear to me that there are two primary reasons. based security vendor in the thick of helping companies make more of their threat feeds. So why hasn’t it made more of an impact stopping network breaches?

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7 Best Email Security Software & Tools in 2023

eSecurity Planet

Despite all the advances in cybersecurity, email remains the starting point for the vast majority of cyberattacks, as phishing, malware and social engineering remain effective attack techniques. That makes email security software a worthwhile investment for organizations of all sizes. user/month Coro edge: $11.99/user/month

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