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A team of law enforcement officials from South Carolina has seized first place in a nationwide cybersecurity contest. More than 200 teams from across the United States participated in the National Computer Forensics Institute’s (NCFI’s) Training and Cyber Games competition, which took place earlier this month. During the event, teams of NCFI-trained local law enforcement officials joined forces with Secret Service investigators to form integrated response units.  The units were tasked with solving a simulated cyber-attack…

A Few Small Practices Can Have a Large Impact By Mike Mosher, Director of Technology, Cinch I.T. If you own a small or medium-sized business, you are a target of the majority of cyber security attacks. It can happen to you, it does happen to your peers, and more than half of all SMBs that suffer a cybersecurity attack never recover. Attacks against SMBs almost never make the news; those stories are reserved for the…

UK councils have been hit by a staggering 33,645 data breaches caused by human error in the past five years, according to official figures. The data, which was obtained following a Freedom of Information (FoI) request sent by VPNOverview to 103 county councils in the UK, also broke down the number of breaches suffered by each body. The local authority with the worst record for human-caused data breaches was Hampshire County Council, with 3759 incidents since…

VMware introduced VMware cross-cloud services on stage at VMworld 2021 to much excitement and interest from customers, partners, and industry analysts. Business initiatives are driving enterprises to adopt highly distributed, heterogenous, multi-cloud architectures. Cloud estates are growing more complex by the day. VMware’s latest offering reflects a focus on helping customers thrive in a world of modern applications, multiple clouds, and a distributed workforce. “What is cross-cloud all about at the end of the day?…

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today proudly announced its inclusion in Newsweek’s Most Loved Workplaces list for 2021, securing a top ranking among 100 companies for employee happiness and satisfaction at work. The Newsweek results, produced in collaboration with the Best Practice Institute (BPI), were determined after surveying more than 800,000 employees from businesses with workforces varying in size from 50 to more than 10,000….