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Mentoring in cybersecurity | Cybersecurity Sessions #10 with Gabrielle Botbol

Mentoring is essential to closing the cybersecurity skills gap, especially in realizing the potential of people from underrepresented communities. In recent years many newcomers to cyber have been mentored by Gabrielle Botbol. Since teaching herself how to be a pentester, she has become recognized as one of Canada’s top 20 women in cybersecurity. Andy Still finds out how Gabrielle entered the world of cybersecurity after leaving another vocation, and how she is helping the next generation of women and underrepresented communities follow her ‘six steps to becoming a pentester’.

Skill Gaming in India: How Identify Verification is the solution for new regulations

India’s online gaming industry has witnessed an unprecedented rise even before the pandemic. It is in the world’s top five mobile gaming markets. However, COVID-19 and the following lockdowns saw significant growth in online gaming in India. By September 2020, almost 17% of worldwide downloads, with 7.3 billion installed games in September 2020. India has 400+ online gaming market players and is home to 420 million online gamers, second only to China.

Introducing Devo Connect, Your New Online Community

For many people, cybersecurity is merely a necessary business function. But that’s not how our customers see it. For you, cybersecurity is an ever-escalating arms race involving sophisticated operators and uncounted moving parts where a single mistake can cause an avalanche of problems. Cybersecurity isn’t just your job, it’s your life. You are on the front lines, responsible for protecting your organization in a high-pressure environment every day.

Trustwave Named Innovation Leader in Frost & Sullivan's Frost Radar Global Managed Detection and Response Market

Frost & Sullivan analysts investigated 70 market participants and recognized Trustwave as one of 15 Innovators in the field. The report noted that Trustwave’s Fusion platform allows clients to manage and view their cybersecurity status, and elite SpiderLabs are driving factors behind being honored. “Trustwave Fusion, a security operations platform that integrates and enriches data from over 750 third-party sources, including cloud, network, endpoints, and email.

Web Tracker Security: Lawsuit Filed Against Hospitals for Data Privacy Violations

A few weeks ago we wrote about the “creepy, problematic, and potentially illegal” problems associated with web tracker security—in particular, the security risks of Facebook’s Meta Pixel, its ability to collect and use sensitive healthcare data, and the risks of hospital privacy lawsuits.

Ousaban: LATAM Banking Malware Abusing Cloud Services

Ousaban (a.k.a. Javali) is a banking malware that emerged between 2017 and 2018, with the primary goal of stealing sensitive data from financial institutions in Brazil. This malware is developed in Delphi and it comes from a stream of LATAM banking trojans sourced from Brazil, sharing similarities with other families like Guildma, Casbaneiro, and Grandoreiro.

How Passwordless Works

Passwordless is a form of authentication that doesn't require users to provide passwords during login. That much you could glimpse from the name, but how does it work? What are its trade-offs? This blog post will do its best to explain to you how passwordless can be implemented using modern technologies such as Web Authentication (WebAuthn), while at the same time providing better user experience and security than the traditional password-based approach.