Category Archives: Security awareness

New cyber council tackles infosec challenges from a tech perspective

Cybercrime is a plague on all industries, but a technology-borne problem at its core. So it makes sense that leading IT experts and infosec solution providers would step up to provide key advice to the tech community on how to protect customers from prevalent cyberthreats. To that end, the nonprofit IT trade association CompTIA this month officially…

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SolarWinds hack: Amid hardened security, attackers seek softer targets

Experts disagree that election security efforts detracted from supply chain security. But there are still lessons to be learned.

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Account takeovers: Insiders need not be malicious to cause chaos

With 2020 coming to a close, SC Media is delivering through a series of articles our picks of the most high impact events and trends of the last year, which we predict will factor into community strategies in 2021 and beyond. This is the first in that series.

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