Skills
Linux Foundation Shares Framework for Building Effective Cybersecurity Teams
The Linux Foundation this week made available a customizable reference guide intended to help organizations identify critical cybersecurity skills requirements ...
Building Your Incident Response Team
When the inevitable breach happens, an incident response team is a key asset. Here’s how to build one ...
Today’s Threats, Tomorrow’s Skill Sets?
Being aware of emerging threats and how they impact technologies is key to bolstering defenses. But can this knowledge also prove useful to your career? Today, the top skill sets employers are ...
CISO Interview Series: The thinking of a CISO at the front end of the cyber threat landscape.
What are the most important areas for a CISO to focus on? When speaking to Aman Sood, it becomes clear that the job of a CISO encompasses every aspect of a business. ...
The Changing Profile of the CISO: New Roles, New Demands, New Skills
The CISO’s role is never static. Over the last two decades, it has evolved beyond technical IT security. CISOs are now central to their organization when it comes to risk, compliance and ...
CISO Interview Series: Investing in Frameworks, Humans, and Your Technical Skills
The journey for someone to the role of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) isn’t often straightforward. Take Sandy Dunn, for example. Per SailPoint, Sandy started as a paper delivery kid at 10 ...
How SCM Can Protect Against Skills-Based Errors and Mistakes
People make up an important part of an organization’s security posture. That’s because some employees have the rights necessary for accessing sensitive data as well as the privileges for viewing and/or editing ...
CISO Interview Series: How Aiming for the Sky Can Help Keep Your Organization Secure
Organizations need the right internal personnel like a CISO to keep their systems and data secure. But what kind of skills do these leaders need? And how should they guide their employers ...
11 Respected Providers of IT Security Training
We at The State of Security are committed to helping aspiring information security professionals to reach their full potential. Towards that end, we compiled a two–part list of the top 10 highest ...
Addressing The Elephant in the Room: Cybersecurity’s Increasing Talent Shortage
The cybersecurity space is in dire straits. Hackers are getting smarter and more sophisticated…and the availability of skilled men and women to combat them has never been lower. It’s an issue that’s ...
