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Safer Internet Day: Exploring Reliability Online

Security Boulevard

Safer Internet Day has been a landmark event on technology calendars for more than 18 years. What began as a small-scale initiative as part of the EU SafeBorders project in 2004 has transformed into a global movement acknowledged by more than 170 countries around the world. Each year, Safer Internet Day focuses on a unique.

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SecureWorld Champions 'Securing Our World' for Cybersecurity Awareness Month

SecureWorld News

This year marks a significant milestone in the ongoing initiative to bolster cybersecurity awareness, and SecureWorld is at the forefront, connecting the #SecureOurWorld theme directly with our mission and contributions to the cybersecurity community. Her point is that our lives are so immersed in technology that it is inescapable.

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Cybersecurity Training and Tech Aren’t Enough; ‘Culture Change’ Needed

eSecurity Planet

In 2004, the global cybersecurity market was worth just $3.5 Security executives have been adding features focusing on zero-trust technology , automation, responsive SOAR platforms , secure access service edge (SASE) models, and deception technology , among others. The Key to Cyber Defense is Security Culture.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month Focuses on People

SecureWorld News

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to help promote the month, which this year has the theme of "See Yourself in Cyber." Cybersecurity Awareness Month was first declared by President George W. This year's theme exemplifies that cybersecurity can be, and is, a complex subject, but it really comes down to people.

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Ways You Can See Yourself as a Mentally Stronger Cybersecurity Professional

Cisco Security

As we wrapped up October, we also put the final touches on a flurry of activities to celebrate Cyber Security Awareness Month. There is no question that the scale and severity of threats have only increased exponentially in the nearly two decades we have been actively participating in cybersecurity awareness.

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Introducing Behavioral Information Security

The Falcon's View

For those unfamiliar with Fogg's work, he started out doing research on Persuasive Technology back in the 90s, which has become the basis for most modern uses of technology to influence people (for example, use of Facebook user data to influence the 2016 US Presidential Election).

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NEW TECH: CyCognito employs offensive bot network to put companies a step a head of attackers

The Last Watchdog

I first wrote about criminal botnets at USA TODAY in 2004. And yet, after a couple of decades of piling up layer upon layer of defenses, catastrophic breaches persist — they’re occurring as often as ever, and causing more harm than ever. A bot is a computing nodule that strictly obeys instructions from a command and control server. “The