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Mayorkas | July 06, 2021

Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, has announced its onboarding of 300 cybersecurity professionals and an extension of other 500 tentative job offers in the Department’s largest cybersecurity hiring initiative in its history. This initiative is part of a 60-day Cybersecurity Workforce Sprint, aiming to build a more diverse and multi-talented cybersecurity workforce. According to Secretary Mayorkas, cyber threats and crimes are increasing, so we should prepare well to de...

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Optiv | January 05, 2022

The cyber advisory and solutions leader, Optive, and the cybersecurity, safety, security, and private investment and advisory firm, NightDragon, have announced their innovation-driven alliance. They have decided to work together to make the technology suitable for the next-gen and serve the clients better. With the alliance, Optive will have access to a portfolio of innovative, future-focused companies from NightDragon. They will also get access to thoroughly vetted cybersecurity ...

SAM Seamless Network | June 22, 2020

SAM Seamless Network, a pioneer in home and SMB network security, has joined the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Wi-Fi Project Group in order to collaborate with industry peers to transform the managed Wi-Fi sector, and provide intelligent and intuitive security services.The goal of TIP's Wi-Fi Project Group is to increase the pace of innovation in the Wi-Fi ecosystem, developing disaggregated end-to-end Wi-Fi solutions which will lower the total cost of ownership and offer more diverse ch...

Help Net security | January 28, 2020

The recent high-profile ransomware attack on foreign currency exchange specialist Travelex highlights the devastating results of a targeted cyber-attack. In the weeks following the initial attack, Travelex struggled to bring its customer-facing systems back online. Worse still, despite Travelex’s assurances that no customer data had been compromised, hackers were demanding $6 million for 5GB of sensitive customer information they claim to have downloaded. Providing services to some of the ...