A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
Guidance on Sharing Cyber Incident Information
Original release date: April 7, 2022
CISA’s Sharing Cyber Event Information Fact Sheet provides our stakeholders with clear guidance and information about what to share, who should share, and how to share information about unusual cyber incidents or activity.
CISA uses this information from partners to build a common understanding ...
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by Bob Weiss
Email is one of the very first Internet protocols, going all the way back to 1971 and the early ARPANET. Ray Tomlinson is credited as the inventor of networked email; he developed the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts across the ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
You can’t keep quiet when you’re hacked anymore
If you try to hide that your business has been hacked or you’ve paid ransomware, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency would like a word with you.
One of the dirty little secrets of many businesses, perhaps even most, is that far more of them than ever admit to it ...
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Beginning June 1, 2022, additional pretest items and time will be added to the CISSP exam for the Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) format.
The current CISSP CAT exam contains 25 pretest (unscored) items. The addition of 25 more items will bring the total count to 50 pretest items. With these added items, the minimum and maximum ...
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As many of you know, I teach a number of information security certification classes, especially the (ISC)2 CISSP certification. Almost a year ago the (ISC)2 update the course content and questions for the CISSP. Students that I have taught since then have started taking and passing the new exam, and here are some of their comments.
This is a ...
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Rochester Community and Technical College is offering the following cybersecurity Exam Prep Courses this spring! Please share with anyone who may be interested
- CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
- Combination of online modules and virtual instructor led sessions
- Starts April 5, 2022
- Hybrid-Virtual-CISSP Flyer Spring 2022c
- Security+
- Instructor led sessions
- Starts April 11, 2022
- Live Online-Security Plus Spring 2022
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
CHANGES TO THE CISSP EXAM LENGTH COMING SOON
Beginning June 1, 2022, additional pretest items and time will be added to the CISSP exam for the Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) format.The current CISSP CAT exam contains 25 pretest (unscored) items. The addition of 25 more items will bring the total count to ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
NSA Releases Network Infrastructure Security Guidance
Original release date: March 3, 2022
The National Security Agency (NSA) has released a new Cybersecurity Technical Report (CTR): Network Infrastructure Security Guidance. The report captures best practices based on the depth and breadth of experience in supporting customers and responding to threats. Recommendations include perimeter and internal network ...
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by Arthur Rowley
Explore what identifying and authenticating IoT (Internet of Things) is all about. This article discusses schemes available for IoT identification and authentication in depth. You will also get to know why it is essential to carry out both processes.
IoT refers to technology known as the Internet of Things. It is a transformative and beneficial ...
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