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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. Cover Cybersecurity Topics.

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

The Last Watchdog

Related: The ‘gamification’ of cybersecurity training. Many companies are taking it a step further, selecting certain techies to also receive advanced training and pursue specialty CompTIA certifications in disciplines such as ethical hacking and penetration testing. 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

You need a corporate culture geared towards cybersecurity to provide the foundation for everything else. A cybersecurity culture is change-driven at its core. Cybersecurity is too often looked at as painfully boring drudgery. A knowledge-base that’s understandable and accessible to all staff.

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How Hackers Evade Detection

eSecurity Planet

The MITRE ATT&CK framework is one of the best knowledge bases available, as it documents in detail how attackers behave and think. If you have no idea how to spot such sneaky moves, ATT&CK is a great resource, and even advanced teams use it daily, as many security vendors map the knowledge base to perform analysis.

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

eSecurity Planet

However, if you are a complete newbie, my advice is to not rush on the tools, and to start with free open-source projects to attack, like the Juice Shop or many other vulnerable applications that are meant to help you learn cybersecurity. on the HTB platform), but you can use it to build a lab or a training environment for other objectives.

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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. The idea was to pool intel from all sources, and make it readily available to all teams, so everyone operated off a common knowledge base. “It

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Leveraging generative AI on AWS to transform life sciences

IBM Big Data Hub

Conversational Knowledge: Reviews, knowledge base, product descriptions and more. Commercial: Marketing content creation, patient experience, rep onboarding & training sales enablement and knowledge hub. Robustness : AI systems should be able to withstand attacks to the training data.