Posts Tagged ‘NIST’
Training Businesses: Expectations for 2016
What are your expectations for 2016? More clients, expanding your portfolio, reducing costs? We asked our partners during the latest Product & Services Update webinar and here’s what we learned. Priorities for 2016 Most of the partners (83%) make it a priority to find more clients. Of course, this is no surprise. Also, the majority…
Read MoreA Surprising View on Whistleblowers from a Cybersecurity Perspective
The term whistleblower comes from the role a person plays in sports by using a whistle to stop a play when an illegal activity or foul occurs. During the 1970s US civic activist, Ralph Nader coined the phrase to avoid negative connotations associated with the use of other words like ‘informers’ or ‘snitch’. The Issue…
Read MoreWar on Cyber Crime – Adopt the Right Portfolio for Your Learners
Today, we are all aware that any kind of organization – big or small, corporate or startup – located anywhere in the world can be subject to various types of cyberattacks. An essential characteristic of cloud computing as defined by NIST mentions that a cloud service should be accessible anytime from anywhere in the world…
Read MoreLearning Secure Coding – The Most Effective Information Security Tactic
I am sometimes surprised to see how even those working in the software industry tend to forget where the burden of security lies. Most incidents we experience today stem from defects in the code – actually bugs – committed by software engineers when designing, implementing, and integrating all those systems. But, on the other hand,…
Read MoreHow RESILIA Could Have Mitigated the Recent Massive Breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management
In today’s rapidly changing world of technology, it is becoming more and more difficult for organizations to stay ahead of hackers and information breaches. What is even more disconcerting is the discovery of a breach occurring weeks or months later than the actual day of the crime and in some cases, even going fully undetected…
Read MoreCyber Resilience – Evaluating Relevance of RESILIA
Let me highlight why I believe the recently announced RESILIA™ Cyber Resilience best practices portfolio by AXELOS is relevant for organizations to consider. Value of Well Designed and Coordinated Response Given the rise of cyber threats that commercial, nonprofit and governmental organizations are encountering, there is an increasing focus and investments being made towards prevention.…
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