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Cybersecurity training can close skills gap for a safer digital world
Online security breaches, ransomware attacks and phishing scams are on the rise. Cybercrime training can keep us safe, create jobs and boost the economy.
Cybersecurity
8 steps to starting a cybersecurity virtuous cycle
Cybercrime is estimated to be worth $2.2 trillion this year – businesses must develop their cyber-resilience to avoid becoming victims
Cybercrime
The average ransomware demand is now $170K. Here's how we can fight back
The World Economic Forum's Partnership against Cybercrime aims to strengthen the collective response to the ever growing menace of ransomware extortion.
Cybersecurity
If ransomware can shut the US energy 'jugular', what might it do to you? The head of Homeland Security talks to Radio Davos
After the Colonial Pipeline hack, Radio Davos talks ransomware with this senior US security official and experts from the Forum's Centre for Cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity
The US pipeline attack shows the energy sector must act now on cybersecurity. Here are 6 ways how
Critical infrastructure such as oil and gas must get used to the idea of a continually escalating cyberthreat landscape – and plan accordingly
Cybersecurity
Governments must act on cybersecurity. The new US executive order is a start.
The US issued an executive order on improving the nation's cybersecurity in the wake of the attack on Colonial Pipeline, which is causing gas prices to rise.
Cybercrime
5 urgent actions in the fightback against ransomware
Ransomware attacks have become more frequent and more damaging during the pandemic – which is why a new coalition to combat them has been formed
Cybersecurity
What the cyber-attack on the US oil and gas pipeline means and how to increase security
The recent cyber-attack on the US oil and gas pipeline could become one of the most expensive attacks to an economy. Here are six principles to improve cybersecurity.
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Cybersecurity has much to learn from industrial safety planning
By analyzing attacks in terms of safety scenarios, cybersecurity teams can both make their responses more robust and more easily communicate threats across an organization
Cybersecurity
Is your cybersecurity ready to take the quantum leap?
New quantum algorithms will soon be capable of cracking current public-key cryptography – so government, academia and industry must prepare now
Cybercrime
How cybersecurity skills are changing lives in South Africa
Absa was launched in Johannesburg in 2019 and has now been expanded to Cape Town. Absa Group’s vision is to produce 300 graduates a year, trained in cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is too big a job for governments or business to handle alone
The public and private sectors are increasingly exposing each other to a growing range of cyber-risks – so they must team up to combat them
Cybersecurity
To counter cyber risks to critical sectors such as aviation we need international collaboration
Like other industries, aviation is becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack. Better global cybersecurity frameworks could help fend off these threats.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity isn't just for your company – it applies to your ecosystem too. Here are 3 ways to hardwire it in
As wider ecosystems of commercial partners become a feature of global business, the potential cyberthreats are rising. Addressing technologies, processes and people helps ensure a resilie...
Cybersecurity
The quantum computer revolution: here tomorrow, so we must prepare today
We know quantum computing's exponentially faster processing speeds will outmanoeuvre existing cybersecurity – and the time to prepare for that is now.