On March 8, 2021, in celebration of International Women’s Day, five accomplished female security professionals met for a wide-ranging and spirited panel discussion on how to encourage more women to join the cybersecurity field, and provided highlights from their own journeys in the profession. The panel was moderated by Sharon Smith, CISSP, cybersecurity strategy and advisory consultant, and included the following security industry leaders: Clar Rosso, CEO, (ISC)² Aanchal Gupta, CISSP, vice president of Azure Security, Microsoft Lori Ross O’Neil, CISSP, senior ICS cyber security researcher & project manager, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, vice chairperson, (ISC)² Board of Directors Megan Hargrove, CISSP, cyber security incident response manager, Tech Data Today, roughly 25% of cybersecurity professionals globally are women, and on

A Day in the Life Cybersecurity remains one of the most exciting technology jobs and one of the top sought-after positions by many technology professionals. It is also one of the most difficult positions for an employer to fill. Why is this the case? When you think about cybersecurity, the mind often drifts towards the good versus evil of technology. Cybercriminals are seemingly everywhere, seeking to make a digital dollar off of the vulnerabilities of unsuspecting individuals and organizations. The security practitioner, on the other hand, is the sleuth who hunts down and neutralizes the threats, remediating the vulnerabilities. All of this, both the good and the bad, are accomplished from the safe confines of a room with a computer.

Organizations in all industries and sectors are becoming less confident in their cloud security posture because of the complexity involved with multiple cloud environments and the expanded threat landscape. As a result, they seek accredited cloud security professionals to address these challenges. The (ISC)2 2020 Cybersecurity Workforce Study indicates 40% of industry professionals plan to pursue cloud security training within the next 2 years. Are you among them? Explore how cloud security training and certification can give your career a buzz – and arm you for an intergalactic emergency. Read the Blog

The measures put in place by governments globally to limit the spread of COVID-19 will leave a variety of permanent marks on the current generation of school children across the world. History will document the negative disruption to education, including the attempts in many countries to replace classrooms with remote learning, the cancelation of exams and assessments and the use of flawed algorithms to calculate probable results in place of conventional exams. However, the pandemic has had other, arguably positive side effects on the perception of education, in particular STEM subjects. The U.K. has had a challenging time trying to maintain education delivery alongside its pandemic countermeasures. However, widespread awareness and information about the pandemic and the role of science

By Diana-Lynn Contesti, CISSP-ISSAP, ISSMP, CSSLP, SSCP John Martin, CISSP-ISSAP, CISM Richard Nealon, CISSP-ISSMP, SSCP, SCF In part one of this blog, we discussed privacy, remote access aka work from home (WFH), insider threats, data leakage, zero trust architecture (ZTA) and security architecture. In part two of the blog, we discussed Edge Computing, 5G, IoMT/IoT, AI, and ransomware. Now into the third month of 2021, we foresee issues related to supply chain (both consumer goods and security vendors), digital transformation and digital health vaccine passports Supply Chain (Consumer Products) As 2020 progressed along with the COVID-19 pandemic, we began to see a slow down in the delivery of consumer products. As Diana Contesti says, “I ordered a new stove in