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The Risk-Conscious, Security-Aware Culture: The Forgotten Critical Security Control

Cisco Security

Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) across the Global 2000 and Fortune 1000 are obsessed with protecting the workforce endpoints as critical vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity and risk management posture of their enterprises. Should a risk-conscious, security-aware culture be considered a critical security control?

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GUEST ESSAY: Sure steps to achieve a robust employee cybersecurity awareness training regimen

The Last Watchdog

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. As such, you should limit the amount of information that employees have access to. As such, you should limit the amount of information that employees have access to.

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Cyber Security Awareness Month: Time to Act and Protect Trust

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Cyber Security Awareness Month: Time to Act and Protect Trust. We’re approaching the end of Cyber Security Awareness Month , an annual event dedicated to increasing awareness of cybersecurity topics globally. Keep your information secure. Tue, 10/25/2022 - 06:51. Keep your software updated.

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Top tips for securing board-level buy-in for cybersecurity awareness campaigns

The State of Security

With Cyber Security Awareness month fast approaching, information security professionals and data protection managers will be looking at how to secure board-level buy-in for company-wide cybersecurity awareness campaigns.

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Combatting Phishing with Enhanced Cybersecurity Awareness Programs

SecureWorld News

At the end of the day, it turned out that this was the work of the company's information security team, aimed at showing management how simply attackers could gather data for targeted phishing campaigns. Consequently, the task of enhancing employee security awareness often lands on the shoulders of information security or IT teams.

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Free Cybersecurity Training for SMBs

CyberSecurity Insiders

Curricula, an Atlanta based security company, is offering a free training in Cybersecurity for Small and Medium Business (SMBs) employees. The security awareness training will be offered in a virtual mode designed to defend organizations holding an employee count of over 1000 employees.

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Magnificent Seven: Celebrating Great Women in Cybersecurity and Data Protection

BH Consulting

That inspiration is needed, because inequality and gender representation still need to improve in cybersecurity. Even though girls outperform at school, just 26 per cent of people under the age of 30 working in cybersecurity are female, according to ISC2. They are paving the way for the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.