A $100,000 Commitment to Close the Gender Diversity Gap in Cybersecurity

Today as we celebrate International Women’s Day we’re filled with both admiration for strong women who inspire and a sense of responsibility to honor diversity in an industry that has traditionally been quite uniform, especially when it comes to gender. While we celebrate the achievements of wome...

2019 and Beyond: The (Expanded) RSAC Advisory Board Weighs in on What’s Next

Just when we thought we’d escaped 2018 without an attack on the scale of WannaCry, NotPetya or Equifax, we were struck by Marriott’s November news of a breach affecting 500 million guests and once again reminded that complacency is the enemy of cybersecurity. We were also reminded that predicting...

Women in Cyber Take the 2019 Spotlight

As the cybersecurity industry continues to struggle to meet a workforce gap – an estimated 3.5 million jobs are expected to remain unfilled by 2021 – it’s clear that encouraging women and those from diverse backgrounds to pursue careers in the field will be a key factor in staying ahead of the...

Inspiring Gender Diversity at Women of the Channel Leadership Summit

At Trend Micro we’re proud to be walking the talk on gender diversity — from our co-founder and CEO, Eva Chen, all the way down. It’s always been a keen part of our corporate culture, from the very beginning 30 years ago. But we also realize that there’s still a major diversity challenge facing t...

Closing the Gap: An Exciting Initiative to Drive More Gender Diversity in Tech

We all know there’s a global IT skills crisis. In cybersecurity things are even worse, with a shortfall of nearly three million roles estimated today — 500,000 of which are in North America. Today women comprise just 24% of the workforce yet half of the global population. Why is this? Women were...

Threat Hunting: Adoption, Expertise Grow, but Work Remains

Threat hunting, an often misunderstood but powerful security practice, is gaining traction, as more organizations reap benefits from it and get better at it. However, there is still a lot of room for adoption to increase and for practices to improve. Those were key findings from the SANS...

Mobile matters: How to ready your apps for the holiday shopping spike

While more consumers now shop on smartphones, retailers have a lot of work to do to make mobile shopping easy. Developers must account for the wide variety of mobile hardware and software, take into account how consumers use their phones in stores and ensure easy checkout. The cheer and good...

Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H1 2018

For many years, Kaspersky Lab experts have been uncovering and researching cyberthreats that target a variety of information systems – those of commercial and government organizations, banks, telecoms operators, industrial enterprises, and individual users. In this report, Kaspersky Lab Industria...

Akamai India's StandTall Program

Diversity and Inclusion is a mission-critical goal at Akamai. In support of this goal, the India Learning and Development team in collaboration with the Women's Forum India employee resource group, launched an initiative that aims to foster a culture of...

Three tips to prepare for peak traffic

Peak shopping season is just around the corner. Is your website prepared? Some websites slow down, and others simply crash, driving users and revenue away. Your website needs to accommodate a multitude of devices that will be accessing it, along with the potential for malicious attacks such as Bo...

Parity Pledge: Carbon Black’s Continued Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

Carbon Black knows that unique ideas come from unique perspectives, which is why we’ve focused on creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace. Our team has built out initiatives to support our current workforce and continues to seek out new opportunities to attract and hire diverse members to...

Friday Squid Blogging: Do Cephalopods Contain Alien DNA?

Maybe not DNA, but biological somethings. "Cause of Cambrian explosion -- Terrestrial or Cosmic?": Abstract: We review the salient evidence consistent with or predicted by the Hoyle-Wickramasinghe H-W thesis of Cometary Cosmic Biology. Much of this physical and biological evidence is...

Carbon Black: A “Great Place to Work”

I am excited to announce Carbon Black has been certified as a “Great Place to Work” by the Great Place to Work Institute. It’s Carbon Black’s first such accolade on a national level and speaks volumes for our nearly 1,000 employees worldwide who come to work every day to create a world safe from...

Working towards a more diverse future in security

Last year I embarked on an exercise to examine diversity in cybersecurity. As one full year has passed, I decided to revisit this topic and the ongoing challenges of recruiting AND retaining diverse talent in the cybersecurity field. This past year saw the MeToo movement in the spotlight, and whi...

OURSA Conference

Responding to the lack of diversity at the RSA Conference, a group of security experts have announced a competing one-day conference: OUR Security Advocates, or OURSA. It's in San Francisco, and it's during RSA, so you can attend both...

Article from a Former Chinese PLA General on Cyber Sovereignty

Interesting article by Major General Hao Yeli, Chinese People's Liberation Army ret., a senior advisor at the China International Institute for Strategic Society, Vice President of China Institute for Innovation and Development Strategy, and the Chair of the Guanchao Cyber Forum. Against the...

Cloak - Backdoor In Any Python Script With Some Tricks

Cloak is an intelligent python backdoor framework. What it exactly does? Cloak generates a python payload via msfvenom and then intelligently injects it into the python script you specify. To evade basic detection, Cloak breaks the payload into several parts and places it in different places in t...

Women in Tech and Career Spotlight: Shiri Margel

This month we’ll be closing out our series featuring women in tech at Imperva. While I work closely with many of the women we’ve spotlighted, I’ve found learning more about their backgrounds so interesting—I hope you have too! Continuing in the series, I spoke with Shiri Margel, team lead in the...

Making Carbon Black a “Top Place to Work” for a Fourth Consecutive Year

Carbon Black is proud to announce we’ve been recognized as a “Top Place to Work” by the Boston Globe for a fourth consecutive year. It’s an honor to receive this award and it’s all thanks to our people who have tirelessly contributed to building the most inspiring, transparent, and positive work...

An open letter concerning my resignation from the Digital Economy Board of Advisors

Yesterday I resigned from my position as a member of the Department of Commerces Digital Economy Board of Advisors. It has been an honor to serve on the Board; however, I believe it is the responsibility of leaders to unequivocally denounce bigotry, racism, hate, and violence, and to respect...