Vigilance can report that a recent survey of British Security Industry Association (BSIA) members has revealed that the private security industry can be an ideal career path for ex-armed forces personnel, with 88.2% of respondents confirming that they already have, or have had, ex-armed forces personnel working within their organisation.
Many have warned of a severe shortage of qualified professionals in the web application security sector. WhiteHat Security has issued a warning that the reality is not just a severe shortage, but actually a cataclysmic gap.
Robert Hansen, Technical Evangelist at WhiteHat Security has devised a formula that he believes determines just how big the shortfall really is. Some key highlights from his analysis are:
There are estimates that anywhere from 300 million to 450 million websites are on the public internet
Manual penetration tests tend to take anywhere from one day for very small websites to months or years for big websites
Only one in 10 people in the security industry can actually ‘do’ website application security assessments
There is a huge deficit in the number of testers needed to meet requirements.
48% say their organizations approach to risk based security management is non-existent or ‘ad-hoc’
LONDON, UK: Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of risk based security and compliance management solutions, today announced the first installment of an extensive survey on the state of risk-based security management with the Ponemon Institute©. The survey covers risk-based security management program governance and maturity and includes 571 U.K. and 749 U.S. respondents from the following areas: IT security, IT operations, IT risk management, business operations, compliance/internal audit and enterprise risk management.
Company joins Cisco Security Technology Partner Ecosystem and Platform Exchange Grid (pxGrid) to provide customers with advanced security intelligence
LONDON (UK): Today at Cisco Live, Cisco’s annual IT and communications conference, Lancope, Inc., a leader in network visibility and security intelligence, announced tighter integration with several Cisco® infrastructure solutions to provide governments and enterprises with greater performance and flexibility for network and security monitoring. Lancope will also join the recently announced Cisco Security Technology Partner Ecosystem and Platform Exchange Grid (pxGrid) to provide customers with advanced security intelligence.
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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