Recently, our own Keenan Skelly, VP of Global Partnerships and Security Evangelist with Circadence®, was interviewed by Computer America’s Ben Crossman regarding Project Ares®, our flagship training and assessment platform for cybersecurity professionals. Keenan shared how Project Ares works, what it can be used for and the benefits of gamified training.
The ever-present threat of cyber attacks is taking its toll on info sec newcomers and veterans alike who are struggling to keep pace and can lead to cyber fatigue, which is a growing concern among both cyber professionals and consumers.
Black Book Market Research, the parent group for Black Book Rankings, recently ranked Circadence® among the top 10 cybersecurity training firms for 2018.
Circadence’s premier cybersecurity training platform, Project Ares®, is an immersive, gamified, AI-powered platform designed to help cyber professionals hone their skills and knowledge to defeat evolving cyber threats.
We’re taking a 30,000-foot view of cybersecurity to understand the state of the industry from an enterprise perspective and share some common challenges faced by diverse industries. Doing so provides infosec leaders insight into how challenges emerge in their workplace and potentially a sense of relief knowing their industry (and themselves, as professionals) are not alone in this struggle.
The financial services industry was the hardest hit with cybercrime in 2013 according to Deloitte. And it continues to rank in the top five most vulnerable industries. In 2017, 69 material cyber incidents were reported to the Financial Conduct Authority, an increase on the 38 incidents in 2016 and 24 in 2015, according to Information Age.
As an example, if we start on the low end of the scale, the one where everyone has an impact on the company, we talk about security awareness. Companies today generally have security awareness programs to help their employees know how to do the right things when it comes to interactions outside the company and especially with corporate resources and sensitive information.
While it hasn’t received as much conventional press as, say, the Equifax data breach, there was recently a significant event that took place on the Internet. A service called Memcached, which allows chunks of data to be shared between websites, is or was vulnerable to being misused to send large amounts of data to unsuspecting targets.
This past month, the SoCal Cyber Cup Challenge wrapped up a six-month long program and competition intended to educate and prepare the nation’s next generation of cybersecurity professionals. Organized and backed by Securing Our eCity Foundation, National Defense Industrial Association, National University and Circadence, the Challenge provided high school and middle school students the opportunity to learn and practice cyber skills using a gamified, persistent training platform, Project Ares®.
You may be an InfoSec n00b but not all is lost. You are far from alone. Now more than ever, security is everyone’s problem but it’s difficult. So much is taken out of our control in the name of making our life easier that in the end, it can be harder to protect ourselves and, by extension, the companies we may be working for.
Major League Hacking opens its 2018 Season at the University of Colorado Boulder with T9Hacks, February 10-11, 2018. Welcome to 24 hours of research, learning, designing, building and solving. With no experience required, T9Hacks is an event planned by college students, for college students, and focuses on creating a unique and engaging venue for women, non-binary, and other gender minority students.
