By Steve Mair Senior Cyber Security Consultant, PGI On 18th June 2018, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) made an announcement to the effect that PGI are going to run a 10 to 12 week training programme for women with little or no cyber security background.  Candidates will be employed from the outset of training, moving straight into a guaranteed job on completion with a leading employer within the sector. This programme is called Women in Cyber and currently PGI have had over 160 expressions of interest from women around the UK. At the forthcoming (ISC)² Secure Summit, I will be taking part in a panel discussion on Diversity and Skills in Cybersecurity. I am a passionate advocate of skills

By Adrian WincklesDirector of Cyber Security, Networking and Big Data Research Group, Anglia Ruskin University Whilst figures differ depending on which report you read, Gartner estimates the average time between a breach and detection to be about 285 days. By this time, an attacker has long gone. With all the security products in an enterprise network today, why is this still so long? One reason maybe because threat detection is a big data problem. Particularly for network traffic based solutions. A handful of probes, or mirror ports, across a high-speed enterprise network and you could be capturing Terabytes of network packets a day. This then needs to be correlated to your SIEM. This all poses several problems. One, this data