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A comprehensive guide authored by Dean Parsons emphasizes the growing need for specialized ICS security measures in the face of rising cyber threats. With a staggering 50% increase in ransomware...
In an era of relentless cybersecurity threats and rapid technological advancement, staying ahead of the curve is not just a necessity, but critical. SANS Institute, the premier global authority in cybersecurity training, is thrilled to announce Network Security 2024, a landmark event designed to empower cybersecurity professionals with groundbreaking skills, knowledge and insights.
Webinar Whether you are considering a career in cyber security or you already work in the industry, the 2023 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge is a great way of combining festive fun and learning. Who knows, the skills you acquire this holiday season might even help you foil a nefarious hacker at Yuletide next year.
Partner Content According to the Cyber Security Breaches Survey 26 percent of medium businesses, 37 percent of large businesses and 25 percent of high-income charities have experienced cyber crime in the last 12 months. With cyber security experts in high demand, finding the right talent to help protect your business can be difficult.
Looking to up your cybersecurity game in the new year? Do not just buy electronics this vacation season, improve your cybersecurity! The end of the year is a great time to re-evaluate your...
Sponsored Post Where do the world's cyber security professionals get an opportunity to mingle and swap tips with their global peers while engaging in interactive, hands-on learning exercises that will help them stop cyber criminals in their tracks? That's the aim of the SANS Summits being held over the next few months, covering everything from pen testing and red/blue/purple team simulation to locking down the Internet of Things and Industrial Control System devices and how best to make use of threat intelligence to predict what hackers are likely to do next.
Protecting sensitive data and mission critical applications spread across multiple on- and off-prem cloud environments and different service providers is a tough gig for busy security professionals. The SANS 2022 Cloud Security Exchange on Thursday 25th August aims to do just that, providing an online forum for cloud providers, end user organisations and consultants to put their heads together and build better defenses for their cloud workloads.
Which is why SANS Institute endeavours to get its top class cybersecurity training out to as many people as possible. This in-depth session starts with the premise that the key question for security teams is not whether a breach will occur, but when.
These days, cybercriminals are living off the cloud, according to Katie Nickels, director of intelligence for Red Canary and a SANS Certified Instructor. "It's not enough to pay attention to the operating systems, the endpoints, said Nickels, speaking on a SANS Institute panel about the most dangerous new attack techniques at RSA Conference."Adversaries, a lot of their intrusions, are using cloud services of different types.
Over the past several years, we have seen more and more examples of vulnerabilities in cloud assets, cloud service provider outages, sensitive data disclosure, and breaches involving the use of public cloud environments. The 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon, released in the second quarter of 2021, noted that compromised external cloud assets were more common than on premises assets in both incidents and breaches.