The cybersecurity skills gap caused 40% of IT pros to stall their cloud migrations

Though virtually all organizations are moving some assets to the cloud, a lack of cybersecurity talent is slowing migration for 40% of IT professionals, according to a Monday report from McAfee. Of the 1,400 IT professionals surveyed worldwide, 97% said Read More …

UK local gov: 37 cyber attacks a minute but little mandatory training

Britain’s local governments were hit by almost 100 million cyber attacks in the last five years, while one in four councils’ systems were successfully breached, according to research. Privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch sent Freedom of Information to all Read More …

Hack the Air Force 2.0 uncovers over 100 vulnerabilities

The second Hack the Air Force bug bounty challenge, Hack the Air Force 2.0, has resulted in 106 vulnerabilities being reported and fixed. On Thursday, bug bounty platform HackerOne revealed that the 20-day competition to find vulnerabilities in federal systems resulted in Read More …

Singapore to have new academy to train cybersecurity professionals

More needs to be done even as Singapore has made “good progress” in building up its cybersecurity capabilities, as it is more exposed than many other countries to cyberattacks, said Acting Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean on Tuesday (Sep 19). To Read More …

Federal CISOs want more education and training to help boost incident response

Federal CISOs agree that investment in workforce training and education is the key to increasing incident response capabilities. If budgets weren’t an issue, Department of Homeland Security CISO Jeffrey Eisensmith said during a panel on CISO priorities for 2018 at Read More …

Cyber alert – EU ministers test responses in first computer war game

European Union defence ministers tested their ability to respond to a potential attack by computer hackers in their first cyber war game on Thursday, based on a simulated attack on one of the bloc’s military missions abroad. In the simulation, Read More …

Cybersecurity world faces ‘chronic shortage’ of qualified staff

The number one issue facing cybersecurity firms is a “chronic shortage” of qualified staff. That’s according to the founder of market analyst Cybersecurity Ventures, Steve Morgan. “The single biggest trend, globally, is that there are chronic work shortages of qualified Read More …