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The Secure Methodology™ Step Three: Acknowledgment
Acknowledgment in work life is often something that’s missing. It’s certainly MIA in the cybersecurity industry, and that’s why it’s step three of the Secure Methodology.
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What Is Zero Trust Architecture, and Why Should Your Organization Shift to It?
Zero trust architecture describes a strategic approach to cybersecurity that enables an organization to be secure by eliminating implicit trust and replacing it with continuous validation. Its beginnings sprung from the “never trust, always verify” principle.
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Will AI and Machine Learning Help or Hurt Cybersecurity?
AI and machine learning are helping and hurting cybersecurity. Technical teams can marry these tools with their own skills to produce the best security posture.
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How to Recruit and Hire Cybersecurity Professionals to Help You Win the Cybersecurity War
Nearly every industry deals with labor shortage challenges due to the pandemic, the Great Resignation, and other factors. However, cybersecurity was already experiencing recruitment and retention problems.
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Cybersecurity Is a Support Industry; What Happens When Organizations Forget That
Cybersecurity is a support industry. It wouldn’t exist without being part of other sectors, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, etc.
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5 People Skills Every Successful Cybersecurity Professional Possesses
If cybersecurity were just a collection of robots, maybe the need for people skills wouldn’t exist. There’s always going to be a need for human intervention in the cybersecurity war.
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What Is Total Intelligence, and How To Build a Cyber Team to Lead with It
When making any decision, intelligence certainly plays a key role. However, often it’s only the logical, rational side of intelligence that people rely on, especially in worlds like cybersecurity.
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The Secure Methodology™ Step Two: Mindset
The idea of two different mindsets , growth and fixed. In the growth mindset, you believe you are in charge of your life. You realize you are the cause, not the effect
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Why Communication Aptitude Is the Number One Soft Skill Cybersecurity Professionals Must Possess
Poor communication and interpersonal skills are the roots of cybersecurity incidents. That’s a theme in The Smartest Person in the Room.
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How To Avoid Hiring Paper Tigers
Paper tigers may be scarier than the real thing because they are killing the cybersecurity industry so you need to avoid hiring them.
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The Secure Methodology™ Step One: Awareness
We are complex, and our behaviors demonstrate this repeatedly. We’re not always susceptible to how we behave and its impact.
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Remote Work Is Here to Stay: The Impact on Cybersecurity
In the rush to remote enable staff, we know cybersecurity was an afterthought. Many organizations hobbled together different technologies.
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Why Geeks Need EQ and Leadership Skills
Simply being smart won’t cut it - geeks also need leadership skills that can be derived from emotional intelligence.
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Top 10 Organized Cybercrime Syndicates
In this blog post, we discuss ten of the most notorious organized cybercrime syndicates and how they operate.
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The Secure Methodology™ and Cybersecurity Leadership
The Secure Methodology is a step-by-step guide to help us improve our skills so we can easily practice honest and effective communication.
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The Confidence-Competence Loop
There is a correlation between confidence and competence; not an A-to-B correlation. These two conditions reciprocally lead to each other.
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3 Steps to Hide Data in an Image Using Steganography
In this post we'll explain a simple method to hide data (any type of data - text, image, malware, etc.) in a JPEG.
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2 Simple Ways to Extract GPS Coordinates from Images
In this post, we'll cover two simple ways to extract Exif (Exchangeable image file) data, which includes GPS coordinates, from images.
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Top 10 Penetration Testing Decision Factors
This article contains ten items you should consider when selecting an organization to perform a penetration test against your environment.
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The Cybersecurity Gender Gap
When it comes to the numbers of women in cybersecurity, we’ve got good news and bad news. The bottom line is we need more women in cybersecurity.
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Cheating Cybersecurity Exams: Paper Tigers
Cybersecurity exam cheats (aka paper tigers), cost everyone - the company issuing the test, those offering credentialing, and the cybersecurity industry at large.
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6 Famous Hackers that Got Caught
The best hackers we never hear about. Here are the stories of six of the most famous hackers and how they were caught.
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Penetration Testing History
The concept of penetration testing has been around since human beings first began trying to understand their enemies' thought processes.
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Leetspeak: The History of Hacking Subculture's Native Tongue
You've probably seen leetspeak, also known as 1337 or “l33t,” somewhere on the Internet or in a movie about computer hacking.
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