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Cyber skills development platform provider Immersive Labs today announced that it raised $75 million in Series C funding. The round brings the total raised by the company to $123 million.
The Student Loans Company spent £76,800 on cybersecurity training over its previous two fiscal years - including a sudden and unsurprising interest in security in a work-from-home environment. "Companies need to spend the time to select training which is appropriate for them and their employees. Simply throwing money at the problem is not going to solve it. We've seen this in security tooling, where some companies attempt to throw loads of money on new tools but without properly evaluating those tools and ensuring that they fit the purpose for their organisation and teams. Training should be no different."
The All-In-One 2021 Super-Sized Ethical Hacking Bundle helps you gain both, with 18 courses covering all aspects of cybersecurity. The purpose of ethical hacking is to find weaknesses in the system that a malicious hacker may exploit.
The last year has taught us that online training can absolutely deliver the same learning experience as traditional in-person training. Cybersecurity training experts SANS has reworked its training approaches and added the option of In-Person Live Stream Training.
The CMMC Accreditation Body announced the selection of Melanie Kyle Gingrich as the CMMC-AB's first vice president for training and development. In this role, Ms. Gingrich will oversee the day-to-day development and management of the CMMC-AB training, education, and curricula management programs to support and ensure the successful growth of the CMMC ecosystem.
Unless, of course, you've made the effort to hone your existing skills or expand your knowledge into new areas ahead of time. At the same time, SANS Cyber Defence Japan will offer 10 courses Live Online, with Hacker Tools, Exploits and Incident Handling, and Security Essentials Bootcamp both available with simultaneous Japanese Translation.
Traditional employee risk mitigation efforts such as security awareness training and phishing simulations have a limited impact on improving employees' real-world cybersecurity practices, according to Elevate Security and Cyentia Institute. The report examined malware, phishing, email security and other real world attack data and found that while security training results in slightly lower phishing simulation click rates among users, it has no significant effect at the organizational level or in real-world attacks.
Security company Infosec is taking a different approach by measuring a company's security culture. Jack Koziol, Infosec CEO and founder, said a company's cybersecurity culture offers unique insight into the effectiveness of security awareness training.
Making sure employees have a high level of knowledge around how to handle email securely at home or in the office is essential, but while the IT team may understand how important cybersecurity is, other employees may need to be convinced. Here's how to get employees invested in security awareness training in five simple steps, according to Mimecast.
While 59% of employees received cybersecurity training from their companies in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the survey uncovered that these initiatives have been insufficient. Cybersecurity training and cyber safety 59% of employees were trained on cybersecurity as a response to the work-from-home shift caused by COVID-19.