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TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Lorrie Cranor, director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in security and privacy technologies of CyLab and the FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, about security in Internet of Things devices for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Lorrie Cranor: One of the things we've observed is that there are a lot of concerns about the security and privacy of IoT devices.
TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Eva Velasquez, CEO of the Identity Theft Resource Center, about the importance of cybersecurity. Karen Roby: What are some of the things people can do? How do they best protect themselves?
Freezing your child's credit is one way to stop cybercriminals from destroying their credit. But you have to be careful to keep the key to thaw it later.
A cybersecurity expert warns that during Cybersecurity Awareness Month it is time for the enterprise to emphasize training that doesn't just keep their employees from putting the business at risk, but "Empowers them to become the organization's first line of defense." Last year's Cybersecurity Awareness Month presented a different set of issues than this year's.
Nowadays, companies not only invest in IT security solutions, but also in the training of their employees with the goal of making them more conscious of security issues. Security awareness covers various training measures which sensitize a company's employees to IT security issues.
The platform provides complete visibility of all connected systems and the scalability of the software makes it easy to grow with the changing needs of a business. Pro-Watch Intelligent Command is a web-based user interface that provides organizations complete situational awareness of their security system to protect people, property and assets.
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare professionals have increased their reliance on the internet to carry out their job. Healthcare under attack: What about cyber awareness?
CIOs are prioritizing identity and access management over endpoint security and security awareness training in 2020, according to a Hitachi ID survey. Their goals reflect these new priorities: 86% said they're aiming to improve security standards across their environment, while 80% are making their tech stack more flexible for remote and on-premise users.
"Great security awareness training, that is part of a healthy cyber security culture and that is aimed at encouraging positive security behaviours, is essential. The problem is that awareness-raising training has a history of being dry, dull, technically-focused and ineffective," Dr. Jessica Barker, Co-CEO of Cygenta, told us in a recent interview. In order to select the right security awareness solution for your business, you need to think about a number of factors.
The increasing number of sophisticated cyber threats will lead to a rise in demand for Managed Detection and Response solutions from small and medium businesses. "MDR providers offer organizations the technology, process, and people to enable the proactive monitoring of their customer security environment and 24/7 threat detection to help mitigate security breaches, even more so during COVID-19.".