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…
How do I get started? That is a question we have all asked in different circumstances. In this article, you will receive enlightening recommendations on this question as you embark on your cybersecurity journey. Be sure this is what you really want. Are you ready for the challenge of constantly securing changing technology in this fast-paced world? Eager…
Cloud security is revolutionizing the corporate community, and its influence cannot be overstated. As more businesses migrate to the cloud, the importance of cloud security has become vital. In fact, according to cloudzero.com, 95% of companies are moderately to extremely concerned about cloud security. This concern is justified, considering that cybercrime costs an organization about $13m. With this in…
Did you know that payments to ransomware…
The very word cybersecurity can sound intimidating….