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The FAIR Institute Recently Named One of the Most Important Industry Organizations

The FAIR Institute Recently Named One of the Most Important Industry Organizations On March 9, 2019, SC Media named the FAIR Institute, one of CyberVista’s strategic partners, as one of the "Most Important Industry Organizations of the Last 30 Years" at the 2019 SC Awards during the RSA Conference in San Francisco. SC Media, which [...]

Mar 19, 2019

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Questions That Need Answers: RSA – Symmetric or Asymmetric

Questions That Need Answers: RSA 2019 In CyberVista’s Questions That Need Answers (QTNA) video series, we tackle some of the most testable and important cybersecurity questions on a weekly basis. Today, we’re talking about RSA. Here we go…

Mar 14, 2019

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A Cyber Celebration: Hidden Figures in Cybersecurity

A Cyber Celebration: Hidden Figures in Cybersecurity By: Shahara M. Ruth, M.Ed. Lead Instructional Specialist, CyberVista As we enter Women’s History Month, it is time that we take a step back to revisit our origins and contributions to technology by women, while making plans to focus on our roles as contributors to today’s technological advancements. The [...]

Mar 07, 2019

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Bad Medicine: The Shocking Cyber Vulnerabilities in Medical Devices

Bad Medicine: The Shocking Cyber Vulnerabilities in Medical Devices For years, two researchers, Billy Rios of the security firm Whitescope and Jonathan Butts of QED Secure Solutions, studied medical devices. They tinkered with critical gadgets like pacemakers and insulin pumps, testing them to see whether they contained any cybersecurity weaknesses. What they found was deeply [...]

Mar 05, 2019

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To Specialize or Not to Specialize

To Specialize Or Not To Specialize You wouldn’t go to a heart surgeon who had gone straight from their pre-med program in undergrad and went on to specialize in how to operate on the human heart, disconnected from the rest of the body, would you? Maybe that’s why it’s so dismaying to see cybersecurity specialty [...]

Feb 28, 2019

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Questions That Need Answers: Password Security

QTNA: Password Security In CyberVista’s Questions That Need Answers (QTNA) video series, we tackle some of the most testable and important cybersecurity questions on a weekly basis. Today, we’re talking password security. Here we go…

Feb 27, 2019

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Senior Leaders Must Give Extra [Cyber]Care to Healthcare

Senior Leaders Must Give Extra [Cyber]Care to Healthcare Earlier this month, over 45,000 healthcare practitioners, technologists, visionaries, and information security professionals gathered in Orlando, FL for the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference. HIMSS is the world’s leading health information and technology conference, and it covers a wide range of issues important [...]

Feb 26, 2019

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The Education Industry Ranks Worst in Cybersecurity

The Education Industry Ranks Worst in Cybersecurity In its 2018 report, Security Scorecard, a company that ranks and rates security on IT infrastructure and risks, analyzed roughly 2400 organizations within 17 industries. The education industry came in last at #17. Education performed particularly poorly in application security, endpoint security, and patching. So why is higher ed [...]

Feb 21, 2019

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Questions That Need Answers: Foldering

QTNA: Foldering In CyberVista’s Questions That Need Answers (QTNA) video series, we tackle some of the most testable and important cybersecurity questions on a weekly basis. This week we tackle foldering. Here we go…

Feb 20, 2019

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What New York State’s Cybersecurity Regulation Deadline Means for Your Organization

What New York State’s Cybersecurity Regulation Deadline Means for Your Organization A sweeping set of new regulations are about to hit its final deadline for New York’s financial sector. On March 1, the last provisions of New York State’s Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies (23 NYCRR 500) come into effect. Enacted by New York’s [...]

Feb 19, 2019

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