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GUEST ESSAY: A Memorial Day call to upskill more veterans for in-demand cybersecurity roles

The Last Watchdog

Meanwhile, 200,000 well-trained and technically skilled military service members are discharged each year. Fundamentally, cybersecurity professionals identify weaknesses and design systems and processes to protect any organization — government agencies, private companies — from cyberattacks.

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What is Smishing? Definition, Examples and Prevention

IT Governance

The scammer will try to gain your trust by claiming to be a figure of authority, such as the government or a well-known organisation. You can help educate your employees and bolster your organisation’s defences with our Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme. A pretext is the reason that they are contacting you.

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Sophie Sayer on the IT Governance Partner Programme

IT Governance

The benefits of partnering with us, and our partner-exclusive event IT Governance launched its partner programme in 2017, which now includes more than 400 organisations. And why should organisations consider partnering with IT Governance? What is it that makes IT Governance special? What else can partners expect from the event?

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Newcastle University becomes latest ransomware victim as education sector fails to heed warnings

IT Governance

This incident is the latest in a long line of cyber attacks on the education sector. It followed August’s ransomware attack on the education administrator Blackbaud , in which students’ phone numbers, donation history and events attendance were all compromised. Ransomware epidemic.

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NCSC warns of a surge in ransomware attacks on education institutions

Security Affairs

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware attacks targeting education institutions. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware attacks against education institutions. SecurityAffairs – hacking, education institutions). Pierluigi Paganini.

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President Biden Signs Two Bills Aimed at Enhancing Government Cybersecurity

Hunton Privacy

On June 21, 2022, President Biden signed into law, the State and Local Government Cybersecurity Act of 2021 (S. 1097) (the “Cyber Workforce Program Act”), two bipartisan bills aimed at enhancing the cybersecurity postures of the federal, state and local governments.

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Data quality: key for government agencies with a data mesh strategy

Collibra

In today’s world, data drives many of the decisions made by federal and state government agencies. Take, for example, a federal health agency tracking the spread of a contagious disease. Decentralization: Consider a state-wide educational program aimed at improving literacy rates.