IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2023

Examples of vishing HR scam In this scam, an organisation’s HR manager receives a phone call from someone claiming to be from the bank. You can reduce the chances that an employee will hand over confidential information or inadvertently infect your systems with IT Governance’s interactive training course.

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IT Governance

JULY 19, 2023

You can help educate your employees and bolster your organisation’s defences with our Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme. This 45-minute course was developed by experts and uses real-life examples that bring to life the threat of phishing and the techniques that cyber criminals use. Get started The post What is Smishing?

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Schneier on Security

JULY 12, 2023

For example, we use publicly available information to help train Google’s AI models and build products and features like Google Translate, Bard, and Cloud AI capabilities. (I I quote the privacy policy as of today.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 25, 2022

Yet another adversarial ML attack: Most deep neural networks are trained by stochastic gradient descent. Now “stochastic” is a fancy Greek word for “random”; it means that the training data are fed into the model in random order. So what happens if the bad guys can cause the order to be not random?

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 19, 2021

On January 18, 2021, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) released draft Guidelines 01/2021 on Examples regarding Data Breach Notification (the “Guidelines”). Training should take place regularly and be tailored to the controller’s processing and business activities.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2022

A recent experience highlighted that security awareness training and most alerts to users about unsafe practices may be making the error of being too general. Security awareness training should incorporate tailored alerts and customized training or education to help users become more aware.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 14, 2023

And then you need highly specialized, expensive and difficult to find skills to work the magic of training an AI model. But that’s all changing thanks to pre-trained, open source foundation models. Sometimes, you don’t know what data a model was trained on because the creators of those models won’t tell you.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

US Cyber Command and the Information Warfare Division (IWD) of the Australian Defense Force to develop a virtual cyber training platform. The United States and Australia have signed a first-ever cyber agreement to develop a virtual cyber training platform, the project will be designed by the U.S. Australian cooperation.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Interesting research: “ Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training “: Abstract: Humans are capable of strategically deceptive behavior: behaving helpfully in most situations, but then behaving very differently in order to pursue alternative objectives when given the opportunity.

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IT Governance

JUNE 8, 2020

What does cyber security training teach you? A cyber security training course will increase your IT team’s awareness of your organisation’s wider defence mechanisms. These are issues that your IT team can help mitigate once they have the necessary training. Book this training course today to get 25% off.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Employees forget the guidance given on phishing training courses within six months, new research has revealed. The findings, which were presented at the USENIX SOUPS security conference in August, were the result of a year-long investigation into the effectiveness of staff awareness training. What type of training works best?

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AIIM

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Most turn out to be a perfect fit for AIIM's training , certification , research , webinars , or some combination of these. But I'll be the first to admit that our educational offerings aren't a perfect fit for everyone and I often get asked, "What are some of the quality training options outside of AIIM?".

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 24, 2024

New research into poisoning AI models : The researchers first trained the AI models using supervised learning and then used additional “safety training” methods, including more supervised learning, reinforcement learning, and adversarial training. After this, they checked if the AI still had hidden behaviors.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Organisations are always looking for ways to improve their cyber security defences, but they often overlook the value of enrolling their employees on cyber security training courses. Placing staff on information security training courses will help them understand the mistakes they’re making and teach them to work more effectively.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Organisations are always looking for ways to improve their cyber security defences, but they often overlook the value of enrolling their employees on cyber security training courses. Placing staff on information security training courses will help them understand the mistakes they’re making and teach them to work more effectively.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Interesting research: " TrojDRL: Trojan Attacks on Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents ": Abstract: : Recent work has identified that classification models implemented as neural networks are vulnerable to data-poisoning and Trojan attacks at training time.

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National Archives Records Express

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Christopher “Eddie” Kline joined our staff as the new Director of Records Management Training program in May and we asked him a few questions. New Records Management Training program director, Christopher “Eddie” Kline. I participated in setting agency evaluation training standards for instructional events.

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IT Governance

JUNE 6, 2019

In this blog, we use real-life examples to demonstrate five clues to help you spot phishing scams. For example, emails from Google will read ‘@google.com’. Take this example of a scam mimicking PayPal: Image: WeLiveSecurity. Take this example of a scam imitating Windows: Image: KnowBe4. Not even Google.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Congress is considering legislation that would prevent the world's largest train maker, the Chinese-owned CRRC Corporation, from competing on new contracts in the United States. Even so, these examples illustrate an important point: there's no escaping the technology of inevitable surveillance. This is a complicated topic.

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KnowBe4

JULY 25, 2022

Just when you thought scammers couldn't get more tricky in their attacks, this example will prove you wrong.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Related: Gamification training gains traction. This is a platform for security awareness training and simulated phishing tests focusing on the problem of social-engineering. Its cloud-based service helps its’ clients to schedule automated training campaigns and simulated phishing attacks. The charts are shared with management.

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IT Governance

JULY 18, 2019

Let’s take a look at how it works, along with an example to help you spot the clues of an attack. An example of a spear phishing email. Here’s an example of a real spear phishing email. All the above are typical examples of emotional manipulation. What is spear phishing? This is classic spear phishing.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 11, 2022

They can also set an example of what good security hygiene looks like. It's not just the rights and privileges that CXOs have on the network.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 28, 2023

Text representation In this stage, you’ll assign the data numerical values so it can be processed by machine learning (ML) algorithms, which will create a predictive model from the training inputs. Each word becomes a feature, and the frequency of occurrence represents its value.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2022

Meanwhile, 200,000 well-trained and technically skilled military service members are discharged each year. Training and certification must become more accessible and hiring criteria must change to encourage veterans to apply for these roles. This experience can also be helpful when training cybersecurity talent. And it works.

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IT Governance

APRIL 20, 2020

With the coronavirus pandemic keeping us stuck inside and struggling to find ways to remain productive, now might be the perfect time to take an online cyber security training course. Certified Cyber Security Foundation Training Course. 3 reasons cyber security training is essential. Certified GDPR Foundation Training Course.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

It’s become evident that many businesses lack the necessary anti-hacking training. For example, organizations can let an RPA system handle routine data entry so that employees can focus on more critical work. Lack of Necessary Training in New Users. Rising RPA Adoption. The global RPA market grew from $800 million to $2.9

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 29, 2018

one of the biggest cyber security threats is inside your organisation , there’s never been a better time to ensure your organisation has an effective GDPR staff awareness training programme in place. . How to deliver staff awareness training – seven top tips . Engaging staff training is critical to your programme’s success.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 29, 2018

one of the biggest cyber security threats is inside your organisation , there’s never been a better time to ensure your organisation has an effective GDPR staff awareness training programme in place. . How to deliver staff awareness training – seven top tips . Engaging staff training is critical to your programme’s success.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

Since that day I received hundreds of emails from students, researchers and practitioners all around the world asking me questions about how to follow up that research and how to contribute to expanding the training set. Now, if you wish you are able to generate training sets by yourself and to test new algorithms directly into WEKA.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Misconfigured databases, email attachments sent to the wrong person and records that are improperly disposed are common examples the ways staff compromise information. The post How to document PCI DSS-compliant policies and procedures – with template example appeared first on IT Governance Blog.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Cyber security awareness training is one of the most important steps an organisation can take to protect its systems. Unfortunately, research by Privatise Business VPN suggests that staff aren’t getting the training they need to secure their organisation’s systems. The benefits of cyber security training. Your staff.

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IT Governance

MAY 7, 2019

Instead, they should be given specialist training to help them excel. Here are three reasons why you should invest in specialised DPO training. DPOs are naturally expected to have expert understanding of data protection law, and they should have received GDPR training. Not convinced? It will shore up GDPR knowledge gaps.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

Experts are warning of a new phishing campaign aimed at Office 365 users that are returning to the workplace with Coronavirus training resources. In other regions where the pandemic is under control, while people are returning to the workplace, threat actors are targeting them with messages providing employee coronavirus training resources.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 7, 2021

This information was part of the training data, and can be extracted with the right sorts of queries. Paper: “ Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models.” ” Abstract: It has become common to publish large (billion parameter) language models that have been trained on private datasets.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The fake browser alerts are specific to the browser you’re using, so if you’re surfing the Web with Chrome, for example, you’ll get a Chrome update prompt. Those who are fooled into clicking the update button will have a malicious file dropped on their system that tries to install an information stealing trojan. .

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

UK organisations are overlooking the importance of cyber security staff awareness training, instead investing in expensive and unnecessary technologies, a VMware and Forbes Insight study has found. And why are they relying on technology instead of allocating some of their resources to staff awareness training? Join our Rewards Club.

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