From Naughty to NICE: Best Practices for K–12 Cybersecurity Education

In an effort to raise cybersecurity awareness and help both school districts and teachers develop security-based curricula, the National Institute for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), hosted two consecutive conferences this fall. These back-to-back conferences brought experts from industry and academia together…

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Is It Time to Start a PSIRT? Why Your CSIRT May Not Be Enough

Your organization’s computer security incident response team (CSIRT) plays a crucial role in coordinating the incident response process for security events that affect the company’s infrastructure, data or users. But to whom do you turn in case of incidents or vulnerabilities related to the products you build? A product security…

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How to Check for Blind Spots in Your Security Program

There are so many delegated operations in any business — finance, legal, physical plant functions, etc. — that any number of them can be easily overlooked. Without checking over every minute detail, the overall business appears to function with minimal involvement. Of course, there are a thousand invisible hands working…

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