Tag: cybersecurity
Jul 19, 2021
People matter: How to solve security skills shortage challenges
The skills shortage in the security industry stretches as far back as we can remember having an industry. Everyone knows it’s a challenge with no easy short-term solutions. The root of the security skills shortage gap remains murky, and some observers say the pandemic and reallocations of security resources could be widening that gap. The …
Fireside Chat: Protecting High-Risk Individuals from Cyber Threats
Join Stina Ehrensvard, CEO and founder of Yubico, Mary Snapp, VP of Strategic Initiatives at Microsoft and Melanio Escobar, Founder of ReyesAyuda and Executive Director of Humano Derecho for a fireside chat on their vision and approach for stronger internet security.
Jun 7, 2021
Yubico research reveals that cybersecurity best practices, including password protection, and employee training in the UK, France, and Germany are lackluster with the proliferation of employees working from home
We all know there have been major paradigm shifts in the workplace caused by the pandemic. With the explosion of working from home (WFH), millions of employees now call their basements and bedrooms home offices. Security professionals scrambled to put together employee onboarding and authentication protocols that met new cybersecurity requirements for remote employees. Over …
What is Malware
Malware Malware, a portmanteau of malicious and software, is the collective term for a variety of software-based attacks with malicious intent, including ransomware, viruses, and spyware. Typically delivered in the form of a file or link over email or text that requires user action to execute, malware is usually code developed by cyberattackers, designed to …
Osterman Cyber Security in Government
Learn how the government sector faces a growing complex of cybersecurity threats.
Telework impact on Cybersecurity across Federal Government
How agency leaders see OMB’s M-19-17 and M-20-19 NS telework evolving authentication across the federal government.
Osterman Research Cyber Security in Education
Learn how the education sector faces a growing complex of cybersecurity threats.
Identify Yourself: Cyber threat protection strategies in state and local government
Lessons learned from 2020 that can inform cybersecurity planning in the years ahead.
YubiKey for the Essential Eight brief
How a YubiKey solution complies with the mitigation strategy to limit the extent of cyber security incidents.
Dec 29, 2020
4 things ‘Among Us’ can teach security professionals about authentication
You’re making good progress on this task. One more data upload and then you’re out of here. But right before you can complete the upload, a klaxon blares. There’s been an attack! Time to head to the meeting room for the usual finger-pointing and scapegoating before the team decides who to jettison from the ship. …