Google has launched a new cyber security training and certification scheme – partnering with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in the process – designed to upskill potential new cyber professionals to help secure the UK’s vast community of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Google cited recent research from pollsters Kantar, which found that 43% of SMEs had been unable to hire cyber support due to a shortage of specialists or difficulty in attracting and retaining them. The period from January 2022 to January 2023 showed a 59% increase in the number of open cyber roles, with almost 70,000 unique jobs advertised online in that timeframe.
Designed by the same ethical hackers featured in the Hacking Google web series, the Cybersecurity Career Certificate has been tailor-made to address the cyber skills gap among UK SMEs by offering a cheap and accessible way for people to gain the entry-level skills that can help fill the most critical cyber security roles.
Google’s course can be completed online, and it claims it should take the average person about six months of part-time study to achieve certification. Besides covering the basics of cyber security, it will also provide hands-on experience with Python and Linux, and various security programs, including security information and event management (SIEM) tools.
“The UK’s digital skills gap, and the lack of cyber security experts specifically, threatens to hinder future progress. Both the lack of digital skills and cyber security concerns are listed as SMEs’ top digitalisation barriers,” said Debbie Weinstein, vice-president and managing director of Google UK and Ireland.
“This is why we’re launching our new Google Cybersecurity Career Certificate to provide Brits with the job-ready skills needed to fill the roles in this high-growth sector, and to provide more businesses with the expertise needed to safeguard future economic growth.”
“Cyber criminals represent a challenge for all organisations, but we know that they are increasingly viewing small businesses as attractive targets. I strongly encourage small business owners to explore this new training programme – and the…
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ZUG, SWITZERLAND – Media OutReach – 2 May 2023 – In Taiwan, the need to improve online security is urgent, with organizations experiencing an average of 3,118 attacks per week last year (https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4783488). This trend will likely worsen due to the rise in remote work and digital transformation acceleration.
It is in this context that World Password Day will take place on May 4th. One of its objectives will be to raise awareness among Internet users of best practices for securing their data.
On this occasion, pCloud, the European service that offers a secure online storage solution and an encrypted password manager, launches two free online tools:
Password Checker, to easily validate the security level of each password ; Data Breach Checker, to find out if an email is part of a hack…and it often is!
“With data breaches on the rise in 2023, we offer these free and easy-to-use tools to help build good practices that increase online security.”
Check your password security quickly and effectively
The Password Strength Checker can identify how quickly a password can be cracked, with hackers usually taking just a few seconds to do so.
This is a significant concern since 78% of Generation Z use the same password for everything.
Concrete tips on creating strong passwords and avoiding the risk of being hacked are also shared by pCloud.
Find out immediately if an email is part of a data breach
pCloud’s Data Breach Checker allows users to find out instantly if their email is part of one or more known data breaches.
This is important since popular sites like Deezer, Twitter, Dropbox, and Canva have already been victims of data breaches.
Sensitive personal information associated with emails, such as credit cards, addresses, and passwords, may also have been hacked.
The problem is that people are not always aware of it, because they were not alerted when it happened or because they do not have a full picture of the scale of the phenomenon.
Accessible at any time, this tool allows the user to know instantly if their email is part of one or more known data breaches.
Here again, the Swiss company takes the opportunity to share 3 practical tips to ensure better…
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Google and other companies will develop and stand up a pair of new initiatives that will provide policy guidance to governments and legal protection to security researchers engaged in “good faith” vulnerability research and disclosure, while the tech giant also said it would formalize an internal policy to be publicly transparent when bugs in Google products are exploited in the wild.
The moves include the establishment of an industry-led Hacking Policy Council, which would be designed to bring “like minded organizations and leaders who will engage in focused advocacy new policies and regulations support best practices for vulnerability management and disclosure and do not undermine our user’s security,” as well as a planned nonprofit that would fund legal costs for security researchers who are sued or prosecuted while conducting vulnerability research and disclosure, according to a blog published alongside the announcements Wednesday.
The council will include representatives from bug bounty firms HackerOne, BugCrowd, Intigriti and Luta Security, as well as Venable, a law firm that specializes in cybersecurity law and policy matters, and Intel.
“I think it’s very much a coalition of the willing,” said Charley Snyder, head of security policy at Google, when asked how the council chose its initial membership. “There was no real criteria [for membership]…this is a fairly specialized area of policy, and these companies are ones that are really invested in getting it right.”
Snyder and Tim Willis, head of Google’s Project Zero, which conducts research on zero-day vulnerabilities, mentioned a trio of information security standards from the International Organization for Standardization (ISOs 27001, 27002 and 30179) as examples of the kind of standards and best practices that will guide the council’s recommendations.
The formation of the council comes at a time when the United States and other nations are showing an increased willingness to regulate the cybersecurity choices of businesses and other entities to prevent cyberattacks from significantly disrupting or spreading through a particular sector, critical infrastructure and other essential services.
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Opti9 Launches Standalone Ransomware Detection Platform and Managed Services for Veeam Solutions
Mar 23, 2023 (PRNewswire via COMTEX) —
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GARDEN CITY, N.Y., March 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Opti9 Technologies, LLC. (Opti9), a trusted North American managed cloud services provider, announces Observr Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ransomware detection and standalone managed services – two new standalone service offerings that cater to organizations leveraging Veeam® Software, the leader in Modern Data Protection. Opti9 is a Platinum Veeam Cloud & Services Provider (VCSP) partner and a Veeam Technical Alliance Partner (TAP).
Opti9 launches Observr ransomware detection and managed services for Veeam.
As the complexity of organizations’ IT continues to evolve, technical leaders are increasingly looking to shift ownership to 3rd party experts for critical layers of their stack. This is especially true for components such as backups and disaster recovery, which must provide resilience despite constant changes such as the shift to hybrid clouds and SaaS, application modernization, use of software-defined networking, and the increased risks associated with ransomware and data theft. To address these needs, many organizations turn to managed service providers to consume backups or disaster recovery-as-a-service (BaaS/DRaaS). However, the rigidity and isolated nature of most of these offerings do not address the complexity or risks faced today. Organizations are looking to decouple value-added managed services, as well as critical security monitoring from infrastructure services. Today, Opti9 introduces its standalone offerings for Veeam, which are completely independent of its BaaS and DRaaS services: managed services for Veeam Software and its AI-based ransomware detection and remediation tool, Observr.
“Opti9 has leveraged Veeam’s feature rich API in an innovative and unique way to address the very real security challenges being faced by IT organizations,” says Danny Allan, Chief Technology Officer at Veeam. “Observr…
