Product School raises $25M in growth equity to scale its product training platform Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Mike Butcher - August 10, 20210 Traditional MBA programs can be costly, lengthy, and often lack the application of real world skills. Meanwhile, big global brands and companies who need Product Managers to grow their businesses can’t sit around waiting for people to graduate. And the EdTech space hasn’t traditionally catered for this sector. This is
How pitch training can help startups get their story right Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Anna Heim - July 16, 20210 When you hire a marketing consultant, you don’t necessarily expect to wind up discussing your life’s purpose. Yet, that is what Spanish marketing expert and entrepreneur Alex Barrera often ends up doing with startup founders who hire him to help improve their pitch. They think they are going to get
AWS offers free online training for cloud architects Data Breach by Steve Zurier - July 14, 20210 The Amazon Web Services (AWS) office in Houston, Texas. (Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Amazon Web Services this week launched a new free online training series on Twitch that aims to build up the skills of cloud developers. The new series, the AWS
Colorado’s new law ups need for privacy awareness training Data Breach by Bradley Barth - July 13, 20210 Jared Polis, at the time Colorado’s governor-elect, speaks at a 2018 election night rally. Governor Polis last week signed the Colorado Privacy Act into law. (Photo by Rick T. Wilking/Getty Images) Following in the footsteps of California and Virginia, Colorado last week became the third U.S. state to officially pass a
Proposed law seeks to boost federal cyber workforce through apprenticeships, training Data Breach by Bradley Barth - July 8, 20210 Falling Waters, W. Va., is the site of the VA’s National IT Training Academy. The Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Expansion Act intends to bolster the federal cyber workforce through apprenticeship and training programs. (Veterans Affairs) Infosec training and apprenticeship experts are applauding a recently proposed bipartisan legislation that, if signed into law,
New alliance exposes underserved groups to cyber training, job opportunities Data Breach by Bradley Barth - June 18, 20210 An IBM building based in Amsterdam. (Mark Ahsmann, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Looking to foster new talent in the IT industry and elsewhere, IBM has opened up its online learning and skills-building platform to nearly 30 global organizations that serve underrepresented populations. While anyone can sign up for
Cyber security training platform Immersive Labs closes $75M Series C led by Insight Partners Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Mike Butcher - June 14, 20210 Immersive Labs, a platform which teaches cyber security skills corporate employees by using real, up-to-date threat intelligence in a “gamified” way, has closed a $75 million Series C funding round led by new investors Insight Partners alongside Menlo Ventures, Citi Ventures and existing investor Goldman Sachs Asset Management. The investment will
Choose Your Own Adventure game animates security awareness training Data Breach by Bradley Barth - May 5, 20210 Infosec’s Choose Your Own Adventure training game “Deep Space Danger” tests employees on their knowledge of social engineering. The employees at your organization are badly in need of security awareness training. What do you do? A. Bore them with dull content that feels like a lecture.B. Engage them with gamified, interactive lessons. “B”
Poll: Box Art Brawl #83 – Brain Age / Brain Training Gaming Tech and Gaming Blog by HendrikWiese - April 18, 20210 Hype brain.Welcome back to Box Art Brawl, our regular box art-based poll to find the best regional variants from two or more territories.Last time we took a 20th anniversary look at HAL Laboratory's GBC game, Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble. With Europe out of the running thanks to the game never
No more snack attacks? Mondelez hopes new security training will prevent the next ‘NotPetya’ Data Breach by Bradley Barth - April 16, 20210 Mondelez International, maker of such brands as Oreo, Ritz and Sour Patch Kids, is in the midst of rolling out a video-based security awareness and training program. The 2017 NotPetya supply-chain wiper attack hit $26.6 billion global food company Mondelez International hard, sidelining Windows-based computers and disrupting its distribution. Sure, APT attacks