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GUEST ESSAY: A Memorial Day call to upskill more veterans for in-demand cybersecurity roles

The Last Watchdog

It’s no secret that cybersecurity roles are in high demand. Today there are more than 500,000 open cybersecurity roles in the U.S., These individuals have many transferable skills that would make cybersecurity a prosperous civilian career. This experience can also be helpful when training cybersecurity talent.

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Lifting Each Other Up: A Celebration of Women in Cybersecurity and Their Advocates – Part 2

Cisco Security

This is the second installment of a two-part series for which Cisco asked a group of women cybersecurity experts to discuss someone who meant the most to them as an ally and how that person affected their career. Some of those experts’ responses appeared in a previous blog post .

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CISSPs from Around the Globe: An Interview with James Wright

CyberSecurity Insiders

He is a cybersecurity technologist with The Walt Disney Company. I work at a Fortune 100 Media and Entertainment company operating within the Information Security Architecture and Engineering group on the Cloud Security Services team. Why did you first decide to get into cybersecurity? In our last interview, we met Jason Lau.

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6 Valuable lessons I won’t forget from 2020, the progress I made, & me bearing my soul…

Jane Frankland

I’m presenting them in this way to show you what’s possible, to show you how life is but a journey (with constant errors, cockups and learning lessons) and in hope that I may inspire you to build more strength, courage and joy in your life. Every year, around this time, I start to reflect. Chances are, you do too. This time is cherished.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: So You Want To Be A Pentester

ForAllSecure

To help more people to become penetration testers, Kim Crawley and Phillip L. Wylie wrote The PenTester BluePrint: Starting A Career As An Ethical Hacker. Vamosi: When I was in High School, I seriously wanted to be an astronomer. I mean, look at the stars at night--so many mysteries to solve. And yeah, there’s some of that.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Fifteen years after the launch of the microblogging social media platform, Twitter remains a dominant public forum for instant communication with individuals and organizations worldwide on a universe of topics, including #cybersecurity. Top Cybersecurity Experts to Follow on Twitter. Binni Shah | @binitamshah.

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CISSPs from Around the Globe: An Interview with AJ Yawn

CyberSecurity Insiders

AJ tells us about his motivation for setting it up his own business, his passion for mentoring and opening up pathways into cybersecurity, and why he thinks (ISC)² Chapters are a great place for networking and accelerating your career. I am the co-founder and CEO at ByteChek , a cybersecurity Software as a Service (SaaS) company.