“The reality is that mid-sized businesses need to help themselves in the security defence stakes, as no-one - including the government - is going to run to their rescue in the event they are hit by a cyber crime.” – Richard Kirk, AlienVault Senior Vice President
Robert Hansen from WhiteHat Security (@rsnake) recently interviewed a BlackHat hacker ("Adam") to discuss how they got into hacking in the first place, what sort of organisations they target and why, etc.
Vigilance can report that Chris Phillips, former Head of National Counter Terrorism Security Office at CPNI (part of MI5) and John Steed, Chief of Maritime Security and Counter Piracy of United Nations Political Office for Somalia will be joining the Oil & Gas Security 2013 Summit. Mr Phillips will provide attendees with an exclusive insight on tried and tested methods to reduce insider threats to an organisation or company along with practical guidelines on successfully building a security culture within a company. Having been the head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office until recently and with thirty years’ experience in both major public order and community based policing, his presentation will bring a unique and highly insightful perspective to the meeting providing delegates with real food for thought when forming security strategies.
LONDON, UK: PhishMe, the leading enterprise provider of immersive phishing awareness training, has now trained over 4 million unique users at 200 different organizations. PhishMe’s customer base includes a number of the Fortune 500, and leaders in the financial, energy, insurance, healthcare, and government sectors. This milestone demonstrates how enterprises globally are working to counter the most common attack methodology used to compromise networks through managing employee behavior.
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