Small Business
CyberSecurity 2028: By Default, By Design
In her keynote at the RSA Conference this year, futurist and game designer Jane McGonigal said: any useful statement about the future should at first seem ridiculous. In the post-RSAC recovery period, I pondered the future trends in information security and built my own ridiculous statement regarding the future of information security: In the future,…
Read MoreCyber 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. Fortunately, help is on the way. As detailed in a column in the Portland Business…
Read More6 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: inside, outside, and even upside down. It’s no wonder, since security risks exist everywhere: inside…
Read MoreNews 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 anyone, or any company or government, do to protect themselves? One thing is clear and…
Read MoreLooking 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 sight, according to Charlie Kawasaki, CTO of PacStar and vice chair of the Oregon Cybersecurity…
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