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SPOTLIGHT: Women in Cybersecurity

McAfee

Forrester also predicts that the number of women CISOs at Fortune 500 companies will rise to 20 percent in 2019 , compared with 13 percent in 2017. This is consistent with new research from Boardroom Insiders which states that 20 percent of Fortune 500 global chief information officers (CIOs) are now women — the largest percentage ever.

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Red Team vs Blue Team vs Purple Team: Differences Explained

eSecurity Planet

Blue team members might be led by a chief information security officer (CISO) or director of security operations, making this team the largest among the three. Blue teams consist of security analysts, network engineers and system administrators.

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More ‘actionable’ intel needed from HHS to support health IT security

SC Magazine

The HHS Office of Information Security is tasked with managing department-wide cybersecurity, for which the agency has established policies and procedures that clearly outline roles and responsibilities within the agency for documenting and implementing its cybersecurity program.

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University of Phoenix Recognized With 2021 Academic Circle of Excellence Award by EC-Council, World’s Largest Cybersecurity Certification Body

CyberSecurity Insiders

This consists of partnered academic institutions, commercial training centers, corporate organizations, CISO’s, Certified EC-Council Instructors (CEI’s), and academic faculty. For more information about University of Phoenix College of Business and Information Technology cybersecurity programs, visit phoenix.edu/cybersecurity.

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New York: Cyberattack Is Twitter's Fault, Let's Increase Regulation

SecureWorld News

And they traced the cybersecurity failures to a lack of leadership and a vacant Chief Information Security Officer role: "The problems started at the top: Twitter had not had a chief information security officer (“CISO”) since December 2019, seven months before the Twitter Hack.

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Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

Spinone

Cyber threat management , being an advanced discipline, craves analytical attention and a commander’s strategic skills of information security executives to confront and overcome the multi-dimensional cyber threats.