Cybersecurity needs unconventional hires to help lead the next phase of development and innovation, coupled with salaries that aren't insulting. Think of the hottest high-tech regions and two words likely come to mind: Silicon Valley. There’s no question that the area stretching from San Francisco to San Jose continues to be the undisputed world leader when it comes to technology innovation and development, and of course,...
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A zero-trust, prevention-first approach is necessary to keep us safe, now and going forward. In the TV series Mr. Robot, Elliot Alderson, a gifted cybersecurity engineer by day, moonlights as a vigilante hacktivist for the "fsociety" group, which conspires to topple corporate America by canceling the debt records of every citizen. In this doomsday scenario, cyber anarchists aim to disrupt the financial infrastructure that supports the global...
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A fictitious industrial company with phony employees personas, website, and PLCs sitting on a simulated factory network fooled malicious hackers - and raised alarms for at least one white-hat researcher who stumbled upon it. S4x20 CONFERENCE - Miami - For seven months, researchers at Trend Micro ran a legitimate-looking phony industrial prototyping company with an advanced interactive honeypot network to attract would-be attackers. The goal was to...
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