The Indian state of Uttarakhand recently launched a cybersecurity and drone research center in Dehradun. Inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Trivendra Singh Rawat, the country’s first cybersecurity and drone application center will offer technical education to the...
Georgia’s $100-million collaborative cybersecurity center recently opened with a grand ceremony. It’s the single largest investment by a US state government in a cybersecurity facility to date. Located on Augusta University’s Riverfront Campus, the new cybersecurity center strengthens Georgia's...
The experts from Edinburgh Napier University and US electronics manufacturer Keysight Technologies are working on a new project to assess the vulnerabilities of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to cyber attacks. The 12-month project maintained by the Innovation Centre...
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Like many of today’s cyber security professionals, Larry Sobers began his career outside of information security as a PC tech and then a Windows systems admin. Encounters with a computer virus put Larry on his present...
While speaking at a cybersecurity conference in Moscow recently, the Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed upon the importance of mutual collaboration from all nations to defend from cyber threats.
“Cyber threats have reached such a scale that they could only...
IBM recently inked $740 million deal with the Australian Government. The five-year extensive deal allows IBM to offer artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, cloud services, quantum computing and blockchain research services to the Australian government.
The contract will see services such...
A cybersecurity audit performed on Metro in Washington highlighted that the agency remains vulnerable to attacks that might endanger the security system. The audit report was submitted to Metro’s board of directors in late last month, but the key...
Earlier this week, the officials from Gentoo Linux, a Linux distribution, revealed that hackers managed to break into its GitHub account with infected code to manipulate its software and webpages. The officials instructed its users to not fetch anything...
Government Business Council, a research arm of Nextgov, conducted a survey of 165 government employees working in the United States federal and military agencies where it was found that most employees bring their own device to work without the...
Over a span of 20 years, Lata Bavisi has had a very interesting career with several industries across the globe. She has been on the board of directors of EC-Council, one of the world's largest information security certification body,...
