Did you know that a job advertisement is a request for interest? Did you also know that the potential employer has specific things they are looking for in an ideal candidate? As a new entrant in the cyber industry, how can you confidently satisfy these requirements? Over the weekend, I hosted a webinar where I invited my friend Priscilla…
So, the other day, my gym buddy and I were having a discussion on gaining muscle mass and he mentioned using ChatGPT for dietary and nutrition counsel. This struck me as a classic example of the broad use and quick adaptation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our everyday lives. It took X (formerly Twitter) 2 years and Instagram 2.5…
Did you know that there are various aspects of the internet you interact with daily? You most likely use the “safe” and visible part of the internet for web browsing, accessing email and social media. How about other parts of the internet you hardly interact with? It may hold valuable information about you and have it on sale at…
Have you stopped to consider the things around you and how they operate? The things that get you from here to there and those things that help meet our daily needs. Consider the equipment used in the manufacturing industry like food and beverage production, and critical infrastructure such as power generation, and transportation. How will any form of cyber-attacks…
In the article for the month of April, How to gain valuable experience before your first cybersecurity role, I outlined helpful ways to gain hands-on experience before landing your first cybersecurity role. One of these excellent ways is to build your personal projects. But how can this be achieved with ease?. Is there a cost effective approach to implementing…
Every organization today is using some form of cloud. As an individual, you are using some form of cloud computing service be it email, document storage or teamwork tool. This service allows us to do business using technology and resources provided by another entity at a fee or at a heavily reduced price. It’s Value The IT landscape has…
This month’s article is a follow up on my previous article, the proven importance and challenges of cloud computing, which touched on the benefits of cloud computing and a few cybersecurity challenges. This month we take a deeper look at the challenges faced by cyber professionals in our quest to secure the cloud and how to effectively overcome them….
As a student, career changer or incoming professional, having the needed skill and experience is a must to get most jobs, no exceptions. Listed below are a few helpful ways to gain the necessary skills to land your first cybersecurity role. Let’s begin. Recognize what you have learnt. Now, if you have taken time to learn and reliably obtained…
Do you know that Cybersecurity professionals consider problem-solving abilities to be the most important qualifying characteristic for themselves (45%), closely followed by curiosity/eagerness to learn (39%), and communication skills (38%)? You may be more suited to this industry than you think. By the end of this article, you will have enough reason to give this career choice a second…
Microsoft has announced that RSA keys shorter than 2048 bits will soon be deprecated in Windows Transport Layer Security (TLS) to provide increased security. Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) is an asymmetric cryptography system that uses pairs of public and private keys to encrypt data, with the strength directly related to the length of the key. The longer these keys, the harder they…
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