Cisco Volunteers, CyberPatriot Inspire Students to Pursue Cybersecurity Careers

Last week, 60 middle and high school students gathered at Cisco campuses in Research Triangle Park (RTP), NC and Richardson, TX for a special cybersecurity camp being offered for the first time by CyberPatriot, the Air Force Association’s national youth cyber education program. The camp gave students who had little to no cybersecurity experience an […]

Top 5 Success Factors for Cybersecurity Management Programs

Several years ago, an employee at an organization I worked for was terminated from his job, effective immediately. While being escorted from the facility this user picked up “his” backup media and started to leave the building. Fortunately, the security guards thought this was a little suspicious and escorted the user to the data center […]

Driving Conversations on Cybersecurity in the Public Sector

Just like private businesses, public sector organizations are taking advantage of today’s “boundless” infrastructures. They also face the same challenging reality when implementing those networks: a threat to data security. For public sector, the stakes are especially high. The proliferation of hackers, inevitable human errors, bring-your-own-device initiatives and the ever-broadening need to share information weigh […]