The National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO) has been known for publishing many outstanding briefing papers which provide invaluable insight into improving technology in the public sector. A newly ...

What’s your biggest security problem? Is it Exchange/Outlook? Internet Information Server? Windows scripting? Actually, if you think about it, it’s none of those. Your biggest security problem is the ...

There’s an old adage in cybersecurity that humans are the weakest link in the security chain. That’s increasingly true, as threat actors compete to exploit credulous or careless employees. But it’s ...

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‘Small and medium businesses are in front of threats day in and day out. The Trojan horse is the employee inside that business that just doesn’t know what’s going on,’ says Webroot’s Braden Sawyer.

Security awareness is one of the most important steps to building a culture of security in an organization. However, finding the right approach to engage employees in security awareness programs is ...

The concept of security awareness training is traditionally one of static procedures, including online training and tests, phishing simulations and physical elements such as posters and displays. This ...

Time and again, whenever a company is breached, people say: "They were phished. Did they do awareness training? They did? Well, somebody still clicked, so that obviously failed." Then they continue: ...

As such, end-users must be taught not only how to recognize social engineering and phishing threats, but also how to treat them, report them and ensure their colleagues aren’t falling foul to them.

During the 2016 National Cyber Security Awareness Month in October, Frederick Scholl wrote an intriguing article for CSO Magazine entitled, “Time to kill security awareness training.” Many people ...

Cybersecurity issues have dominated 2021. Ransomware attacks and data breaches are in the news almost daily, with all manner of businesses and institutions, from large corporations to schools, being ...

CISOs and security leaders make a point to gather analytics and data to establish meaningful metrics for their organizations’ cybersecurity. Key performance indicators (KPIs), such as intrusion ...