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NEW TECH: Circadence deploys ‘gamification’ training to shrink cybersecurity skills gap

The Last Watchdog

Related: The need for diversity in cybersecurity personnel One of the top innovators in the training space is Circadence ®. The way people are trained in cybersecurity right now is the opposite of gamification. It isn’t very exciting and not necessarily something the user wants to continue to train.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #13 [Eye Opener] How to Outsmart Sneaky AI-Based Phishing Attacks

KnowBe4

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #13 | March 28th, 2023 [Eye Opener] How to Outsmart Sneaky AI-Based Phishing Attacks Users need to adapt to an evolving threat landscape in which attackers can use AI tools like ChatGPT to craft extremely convincing phishing emails, according to Matthew Tyson at CSO. "A We must ask: 'Is the email expected?

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How to Ensure Your Digital Security During the Rugby World Cup

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Just a couple of months after that, World Rugby itself announced that one of its training websites had suffered a security breach that exposed subscribers’ account information. First, it said that it would invest in cultivating military assets in the digital space, as reported by the Organization for World Peace.

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Kevin Mitnick, Hacker Turned Cybersecurity Leader, Dies at 59

eSecurity Planet

He helped design KnowBe4’s training based on his social engineering tactics, and he became a partial owner of KnowBe4 in November 2011. Mitnick often represented the company at conferences and discussed his experience in KnowBe4 training videos. military systems and launch nuclear missiles through mere whistling.

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MY TAKE: COVID-19 cements the leadership role CISOs must take to secure company networks

The Last Watchdog

One new challenge CISOs’ suddenly face is how to lock down web conferencing tools, like Zoom, Skype and Webex, without gutting their usefulness. Then you need to constantly train your team members using various techniques, such as breach response assessments or cyber range exercises. I’ll keep watch.

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Episode 256: Recursive Pollution? Data Feudalism? Gary McGraw On LLM Insecurity

The Security Ledger

Paul speaks with Gary McGraw of the Berryville Institute of Machine Learning (BIML), about the risks facing large language model machine learning and artificial intelligence, and how organizations looking to leverage artificial intelligence and LLMs can insulate themselves from those risks. The post Episode 256: Recursive Pollution?

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MY TAKE: Michigan’s cybersecurity readiness initiatives provide roadmap others should follow

The Last Watchdog

My reporting trip included meetings with Michigan-based cybersecurity vendors pursuing leading-edge innovations, as well as a tour of a number of thriving public-private cybersecurity incubator and training programs. The first Cyber Range training and testing hub opened at Eastern Michigan University in late 2012. They answered, yes.