Why it is essential to have experience - and not JUST to pass the CISSP Growing The Garden of InfoSec Think about your path in information security. It took a lot of work and study. No one is born knowing information security, and no child in any playground has ever said “when I grow up, I want to get a CISSP credential”. Information security is one of the most popular professions right now, and it is anticipated that the demand for qualified information security professionals will continue to grow for the foreseeable future. Any great garden requires serious care and feeding, and your information security career is no different. It requires constant tending, but that is part of what makes

Did you ever hear the story about the hyphen that cost 80 Million dollars? In the infancy of the United States’ space program, a programming error resulted in a forced abort of a rocket early in its flight to prevent possible injury along its crash path. Or how about the time a pilot miscalculated the required fuel for a flight from Montreal to Edmonton? These are both fatal examples of how human error can have serious consequences. In our hyper-connected world, our errors can have damaging consequences. Sometimes, the harm can be minor, such as the “Melissa” macro virus of 1999, in the early days of computer viruses. More recently, however, the damages can have a greater impact, as in

Demand for cybersecurity professionals will stay strong through the remainder of the decade, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics. In the 10-year period between 2019 and 2029, employment of information security analysts will grow by 31%, according to the bureau’s Occupational Outlook Handbook. The projected growth rate is more than seven times higher than the national job growth average of 4%, and roughly three times that of the 11% projected growth in IT-related occupations. The reason for the high growth rate for information security analysts is no secret to anyone in the industry. As the bureau notes: “Cyberattacks have grown in frequency, and analysts will be needed to come up with innovative solutions to prevent hackers from stealing critical

By Stephen Fried, CISSP As COVID-19 began to spread rapidly across the globe in 2020, many organizations moved their employees off company premises and enabled large "work from home" efforts. Nobody knew how long this would last, but we assumed we could work remotely for a few months until this thing worked itself out, then return to the office and get back to "normal." We were very wrong. We weren’t just wrong about the length of the crisis; we were wrong about how our employees defined “home.” What we didn’t anticipate is that the pandemic would force companies to rethink the definition of “home.” Adult children needed to live with their sick parents to care for them. Travelers on vacation

Cloud services play a key role in the digital transformation and operation of today’s enterprises. Yet security teams are often left out of planning these initiatives, increasing the level of risk organizations will face. Security is an integral part of adopting cloud services, without being a barrier to innovation. More and more enterprises are migrating their data and applications to the cloud. The variations in implementations and environments create a level of complexity for IT security teams to monitor cloud services while keeping them secure. Is your internal team poised to shape secure cloud strategy and innovation? If it isn’t, how can you engage and align resources to gain a competitive advantage? Here’s a look at the expertise needed –