SANS Summer Dunes to puddle up professionals with cybersecurity courses

Expert instructors will help participants develop skills in topics such as network penetration testing, advanced incident response and threat hunting to defend their organisations against ever-increasing cyber threats. ‘SANS Summer Dunes August 2021 Live Online’ will feature two new GIAC-certified courses: ICS410: ICS/SCADA Security Essentials, aiming cybersecurity professionals; and MGT551 Managing a Security Operations Centre (SOC), aimed at buliding SOCs.

Interview: Max Hsu from ViewSonic

In an exclusive interview with Rabab Zehra, Executive Editor, TECHx, Max Hsu, ViewSonic Regional Director – MEA, discusses how ViewSonic’s MyViewBoard is facilitating the education sector, ViewSonic’s corporate solutions, the remote working environment, and the challenges faced by CIOs and IT departments.

Vectra and Zscaler enable zero trust visibility into business-critical applications

The Vectra Cognito Platform is designed to detect and respond to threats inside cloud, data center, IoT, and enterprise networks before attackers can breach organizations and cause irreparable damage.

Annual Cyber Protection Week survey reveals post-pandemic paradox

The global survey discovered that 80% of companies now run as many as 10 solutions simultaneously for their data protection and cybersecurity needs – yet more than half of those organizations suffered unexpected downtime last year because of data loss.

Remote workers in the crosshairs: Mimecast publishes new report

The report describes how attack volume surged by 48% during the first year of the pandemic, with sudden increases in volume corresponding to spikes in COVID-19 infection rates in April and October 2020.