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Spotlight Podcast: At 15 Cybersecurity Awareness Month Grows with Cyber Risk

The Security Ledger

And this year is a special occasion: a Quinceañera of sorts recognizing 15 years since the first Cybersecurity Awareness Month in 2004. As my guests this week note: the goals of Cyber Security focus and importance of cyber security awareness month has changed a lot since the early 2000s.

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Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2021

eSecurity Planet

They recently received the ONLY "Customer's Choice" rating in Gartner's "Voice of the Customer” Security Awareness Computer-Based Training report. Proofpoint offers email protection, network sandboxing, security awareness training, cloud protection and more. Founded: 2002. Learn more about Check Point. Proofpoint.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

2 – It demonstrates the importance of security awareness training for your employees! 2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. I love it for a few reasons. #1 He is arrested and sentenced to 20 months in prison.