Cyber Oregon training programs work to fill skills gap for small business
One of the consistent themes you’ll find here on the Cyber Oregon blog concerns the critical shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals. Among the hardest hit are small businesses that lack the resources of large corporations to attract trained cyber professionals.…
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NW Cyber Camp is Helping Train Tomorrow’s Cybersecurity Experts
Cyber attacks, hacking, spear phishing—we hear about the latest cyber threats to our data on a daily basis. Certainly, the cybersecurity field has no shortage of “excitement,” but it does have a shortage of trained cybersecurity professionals. Right now, Oregon…
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6 Ways for Small Businesses to Improve Their Security, with Little Security Expertise
There is a children’s book, “Inside, Outside, Upside Down” featuring The Berenstain Bears, that teaches young children about spatial concepts. When it comes to securing your organization’s data, it may feel like you need to cover all of the spaces:…
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Cyber News Roundup: A Geneva Convention for Cybersecurity
While cybersecurity continues to dominate the news, there is growing concern about the rise of government cyberwarfare. Rogue nations like North Korea and Russia have captured headlines for their role in major cybersecurity attacks, but the question becomes what can…
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Looking for creative solutions to the cybersecurity skills shortage
A pervasive theme at the recent 2018 Oregon Cyber Security Day at the University of Oregon campus in Eugene centered on the cybersecurity skills shortage. In Oregon alone, there are more than 3,000 cybersecurity job openings and not much relief in…
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Time is running short. Enter the US Cyber Challenge today!
US Cyber Challenge’s online competition, Cyber Quests Spring 2018, is now open to competitors. But, hurry and register before the deadline of Monday, April 30, 2018. This year’s focus is on cryptography and everyone is welcome to participate – whether you’re a student…
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Finding Cyber Oregon connections at the RSA Conference
RSA Conference pulls more than 50,000 cyber security professionals from around the world to San Francisco. The event, which ran from April 16-20, featured a strong contingent from Oregon, including our own Charlie Kawasaki, vice chair of the Oregon Cybersecurity…
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Cybersecurity: Let’s work together to turn the tide
When you read the news headlines, it’s not hard to get the impression that cybersecurity – or rather the lack of cybersecurity — is a bad problem getting worse. Consider a few recent headlines: 500 new cyber threats emerge every…
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Cyber News Roundup: Facebook continues to take a beating
Facebook has had a very difficult few weeks. First it was the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and now it’s an admission from CEO Mark Zuckerberg that “malicious actors” have probably gotten access to personal data from the Facebook’s 2.2 billion members.…
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