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Small steps can greatly increase the overall security of IoT. A better IoT security story has to be one of the most urgent priorities in all of technology. Various research has shown that security is the number one concern for enterprise IoT customers and that they would move faster on IoT programs if their concerns were allayed.
In light of Mental Health Awareness Week, and as the discussion around employee wellbeing becomes louder and louder amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, we spoke with five cybersecurity experts to get their thoughts on how organisations can minimise the negative mental and physical impacts on newly-remote employees. "Rob Shaw, Managing Director, EMEA, Fluent Commerce, adds:"Statistics reveal that 1 in 6 of us will have experienced a mental health problem in the past week alone.
The SANS Institute has kindly stepped in to help, with several free-of-charge resources. The SANS Security Awareness Work-from-Home Deployment Kit is a set of guides on how to raise awareness to secure a remote workforce - be they actual children, or staff who require the same level of patience and explanation in order to work safely online.
MediaPRO, a leading provider of security and privacy training solutions, has announced a new partnership with BSI, the international business improvement company. The new alliance will enable BSI to offer its clients personalized privacy awareness and regulation specific training programs that can be tailored to their risk management priorities.
2, the world's largest nonprofit membership association of certified cybersecurity professionals - announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Australian Security Industry Association Limited that will strive for the advancement of the information security profession in Australia. In addition to promoting the importance of having qualified and certified physical security and information security professionals, both organisations agree that physical and electronic security systems and information security systems are converging, and both these aspects of security are vital to the other.
Different cultures will influence whether people do what they should when it comes to security, for example a culture in which leadership demonstrate a strong commitment to, and respect for, security is much more likely to result in positive security behaviours than one in which leadership are dismissive of security. The phenomenon of social proof, in which people model their behaviour on how others act, means that the role of leadership in security culture is vital.
From a FOIA request, over a hundred old NSA security awareness posters. Back in 1993, during the first Crypto Wars, I and a handful of other academic cryptographers visited the NSA for some meeting or another.
TrustArc, the leading privacy automation and intelligence platform provider, announces major updates to Nymity Awareness Tracker, the first compliance solution on the market to streamline...
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and the Identity Theft Resource Center is providing tips to keep consumers and companies safe.
