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How Microsoft Training Boosts an ISO 27001 Qualification

IT Governance

Meanwhile, the (ISC) 2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study 202 1 found that 72% of cyber security professionals are required by their organisation to earn certifications. There’s a huge demand for qualified administrators and cyber security professionals. Most organisations that use Cloud services do so with Microsoft Azure. Getting started.

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15 Top Cybersecurity Certifications for 2022

eSecurity Planet

An IT security certification can provide a key boost for your career, but with so many different certifications available (and so many organizations more than happy to take your money for training and testing), it’s important to make sure that the time and investment are well spent. The Top Cybersecurity Certifications.

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Spotlight Podcast: CSO Chris Walcutt on Managing 3rd Party OT Risk

The Security Ledger

In our latest Spotlight episode of the Security Ledger podcast, I sat down with Christopher Walcutt, Chief Security Officer at DirectDefense, to talk about the changing cybersecurity landscape for critical infrastructure and the challenges (as well as the solutions) that organizations face today.

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Build your Microsoft Security career

IT Governance

Cybersecurity Workforce Study 2020 ?found?that Over the next few weeks, we’ll be delving into our Microsoft Security training pathways, looking at the relationships between specific courses, and providing tips on how ensure you pass your exams at the first attempt. . Indeed, the (ISC) 2 ?Cybersecurity Microsoft 365 Pathway .

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Black Hat AI Tools Fuel Rise in Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks

eSecurity Planet

These jailbreaks include carefully created instructions designed to trick AI systems into creating output that might divulge sensitive information, generate inappropriate material, or run malicious code.

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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. Ransomware, business email compromises and direct ACH system hacks continue to morph and intensify. LW: How do CompTIA’s training programs and certifications come into play? The exposure faced by SMBs is profound.

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Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring

Krebs on Security

The researchers concluded that for many people involved, cybercrime amounts to little more than a boring office job sustaining the infrastructure on which these global markets rely, work that is little different in character from the activity of legitimate system administrators.