On last Monday’s episode of “The Good Doctor,” Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) interrupts his girlfriend Lea Dilallo (Paige Spara), the hospital’s IT director, as she investigates a ransomware attack on the health care facility’s network. (ABC/Jeff Weddell) On the ABC medical drama “The Good Doctor,” the surgeons at San Jose
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‘If you wait for government, you’re going to be waiting a long time’: A look at Biden’s cyber funding
The Biden administration proposed a $9 billion upgrade to the nation’s cybersecurity capabilities as part of his proposed stimulus plan. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz) Updating and strengthening cybersecurity can be a costly proposition for small and medium businesses with limited budgets. With that in mind, the Biden administration
‘Don’t take Tom Bossert’s word on Trinity Cyber’: startup snags big-name board additions
The analyst from FireEye that discovered the SolarWinds attack and the co-founder of Tenable will join the advisory board of Trinity Cyber – contributing expertise to the company that counts former homeland security adviser Tom Bossert among its top executives. News of the high-profile new additions – Michael Sikorski, the head
Biden to invest in cyber workforce, but without plan to overcome lingering staffing hurdles
President-elect Joe Biden announced funding to modernize secure IT and lure cyber talent to the public sector as part of his plan to stimulate the economy and rebuild in the wake of the pandemic. But cybersecurity experts remain skeptical that the newfound funding focus on cybersecurity will be enough to
With insured losses estimated at $90 billion, did cyber insurance firms dodge financial calamity?
Insured losses from the SolarWinds breach will likely come in around $90 million, according to estimates from a pair of security companies, who claim insurers may have dodged “a catastrophic financial incident.” While newly minted partners BitSight and Kovrr expect the number of SolarWinds victims to grow in the upcoming months,
Survey says, women in cyber make 31 percent less than men
In this photo illustration, a virtual map of the internet is projected onto a woman. A 2020 survey of infosec professionals found that U.S.-based male respondents take home 31 percent more than women peers per year. (Leon Neal/Getty Images) A 2020 survey of infosec professionals found that U.S.-based male
New ISAC for K-12 school districts fills a key cyber intelligence gap
Roosevelt High School in Portland, Oregon. The Portland Public Schools district is among the first members of K12 SIX. (Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons) The automotive sector has its own Information Sharing & Analysis Center (ISAC). So do the aviation and maritime industries. They all represent forms of
Sacramento turns COVID layoffs into a cyber training opportunity
COVID-19 has caused devastating unemployment. Moody’s estimates it could take until 2024 to recover the 22 million jobs lost. A highly motivated workforce is now stuck at home with no work. The city of Sacramento saw this as an opportunity. There, same as so many other locations across the country, cybersecurity jobs remain unfilled. In fact, the growth in
Cyber escape room locks in employees’ security awareness. But can SC Media beat the clock?
Originally, Living Security designed physical escape rooms, actually shipping suitcases of props to clients and even flying in hosts to train companies’ security program leaders how to run exercises across their organizations. But like so many other organizations, Living Security was forced to pivot after COVID-19 forced lockdowns last March.
Cybersecurity Talent Initiative resolves to shrink cyber skills gap, student debt
Pictured: A Mastercard display at Mobile World Congress 2015. (Photo credit: Janitors, licensed under CC BY 2.0) The cybersecurity skills gap and student loan debt: two problems, both trending in the wrong direction. Launched in April 2019, the Cybersecurity Talent Initiative aims to put a dent in both of these growing issues. The unique program