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What Are You Doing for Cyber Security Awareness Month?

IT Governance

This October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, an event designed to educate people about information security and the steps they can take to stay safe online. Now in its nineteenth year, the campaign provides tools and resources to help people learn more about the cyber security industry and the ways they can get involved.

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What is Cyber Security Awareness and Why is it Important?

IT Governance

For all the talk of criminal hacking, ransomware infections and the technologies to prevent them, the key to protecting your organisation is cyber security awareness training. If you’re wondering why your employees pose such a big risk and how staff awareness can protect you, we explain everything you need to know in this blog.

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Bridging the Gap Between Security Awareness and Action

AIIM

Information security is at the list of concerns (80% are “concerned” or “extremely concerned”). 43% of organizations see the information security and governance problem as “impossible” or “very difficult” to automate, creating competitive advantage for those organizations that can solve this riddle.

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Upcoming webinar: Creating an effective cyber security awareness programme

IT Governance

An effective staff awareness programme should be an ongoing process that begins at induction and is reinforced by regular updates throughout the year. It will include a 15-minute Q&A session at the end to provide advice on situations you might have encountered in your security awareness project.

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DarkHotel APT uses VPN zero-day in attacks on Chinese government agencies

Security Affairs

DarkHotel nation-state actor is exploiting a VPN zero -day to breach Chinese government agencies in Beijing and Shanghai. Chinese security-firm Qihoo 360 has uncovered a hacking campaign conducted by a DarkHotel APT group (APT-C-06) aimed at Chinese government agencies in Beijing and Shanghai. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Majority of Government Employees are Partially Working Virtually Despite Increased User-Related Cyber Risks

KnowBe4

New global data shows that those government employees that work solely in the office are the new minority, IT lacks visibility, and user actions put the government at risk.

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Data Governance Makes Data Security Less Scary

erwin

The Regulatory Rationale for Integrating Data Management & Data Governance. Now, as Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close – and ghosts and goblins roam the streets – we thought it a good time to resurrect some guidance on how data governance can make data security less scary. They are: Data models.