Here's How to Leverage AI to Land Your Next Cybersecurity Job
Finding work can be hard work — particularly in cybersecurity, where it seems that one needs years of experience to qualify even for entry-level roles. Many of the steps in the job search process can be tedious, time consuming, and even anxiety-inducing. Enter Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Pete Strouse + Gotham Sharma on Solving Cybersecurity Training, Hiring, and Education Challenges
Pete Strouse, Founder and CEO of InfosecConnect interviews Gotham Sharma, Executive Director of Cybersecurity Education and Training at AccessCyber, about all things cybersecurity hiring, training, and education, as well as the challenges around what it means to actually be “in cybersecurity”.
Episode 3: Touring the Malware Museum and a Dark Web Exodus
On Episode 3 of the 2Factor Podcast: Our tribute to Kevin Mitnick - a hacker in the truest sense of the word. This week, we tour the Malware Museum, courtesy of the Internet Archive, and speculate about cybercrime's mass exodus from the Dark Web.
Also mentioned in the episode: TrustedSec, Binary Defense, Dave Kennedy, vx-underground, Amazon Alexa, Siri, Google Home, Telegram, OpenAI, ChatGPT, BleepingComputer
I Started Playing the Password Game — Six Hours ago
Neal Agarwal’s Password Game manages to poke interactive fun at the oftentimes cumbersome security requirements that plague us all — the seemingly minor, yet daily bane of our digital existence: passwords.
Episode 2: Aluminum Alloy Passwords, Malware.RIP, and Weaponizing AI
This week, we’re chatting about using aluminum alloy to secure your passwords, a useful resource called Malware.RIP, and how ChatGPT filters are being bypassed with creative prompting.
OpenAI Wants to Give You $1M For Your AI-Powered Cybersecurity Idea
The grant seeks to fund innovative defensive solutions that provide an advantage to cybersecurity professionals in the ongoing battle against cybercrime.
Microsoft Announces New Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate
Available on Coursera starting July 30th, Microsoft’s new Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate covers topics including networking, operating systems, cloud computing, identity and access solutions, as well as management and compliance. Over the course of the six month program (240 hours), newcomers to the world of infosec will also become familiar with widely used Microsoft products, including Azure and Defender.
2Factor Podcast — Episode 1: Silly Security Awards, Hacking Lawyers, and a Kickstarter Conspiracy
The very first episode of The 2Factor Podcast just dropped! On this initial episode, Gotham Sharma and an anonymous co-host chat about all things InfoSec, including: Silly Security Awards, Hacking Lawyers, Kickstarter conspiracies, and more: 2FactorPodcast.com
Immersive Labs and Accenture Collaborate to Solve the Global Cyber Talent Shortage with Cyber Million Initiative
Immersive Labs, a leader in people-centric cyber resilience, and Accenture are working together to launch the Cyber Million program that aims to solve the cybersecurity talent deficit by increasing access to one million entry-level cybersecurity operations jobs over the next decade.
Google to Spend $12M on Cybersecurity Research at CUNY, NYU, Columbia and Cornell
Four New York universities will launch cybersecurity research projects over the next three years to develop new technology to keep people and businesses safe online and to bolster the local cybersecurity ecosystem.
North Dakota Mandates Cybersecurity Education
The new legislation, slated to take effect in 2025, will add graduation requirements, provide for the training and certification of teachers and make technology courses available to adult education outlets. Learn more.
Should You Get the New Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate?
There are a number of household names in the cybersecurity certification space — CompTIA, TCM Security, ISACA, ISC(2) — and now… Google? Introducing the Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate.
Beyond Kali: 8 Cybersecurity and Privacy Linux Distributions You’ve Never Heard of
While Kali remains a community favorite, there are a number of other cybersecurity and privacy-focused Linux distributions worth… investigating. No pun intended. From penetration testing to malware analysis, digital privacy, forensics, and more — rest assured, whatever your use case, there’s a distro for it.
Meet the Law Professor Teaching Future Lawyers How to Hack
To prepare future lawyers to shape cybersecurity policy, Scott J. Shapiro doesn’t focus on case law. Instead, the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law teaches students how to hack: “It is extraordinarily difficult for law students and for legal scholars such as myself to talk intelligently about regulating an activity that we can’t even imagine,” Shapiro said.
11 Raspberry Pi Cybersecurity Projects to Enhance Your Resume and (Finally) Land that Job
Explore the finer points of operating systems, networking technologies, cloud computing, and ethical hacking, with these Raspberry Pi Cybersecurity projects.
10 Reputable Media Sites for Cybersecurity News & Updates
Where do you turn for cybersecurity news and updates? We’ve compiled this list of reputable online cybersecurity news publications to get you started.
Nothing Funny About Cybersecurity? Gotham Sharma Talks Comedy & Hacking on the ‘No Password Required‘ Podcast
Cybersecurity is no laughing matter? Cybersecurity professional and standup comic, Gotham Sharma, disagrees. On the latest episode of the No Password Required Podcast, Gotham talks about his journey dropping out of college to pursue a career in cybersecurity, accidental origins of his work in standup comedy, the first threat actors he encountered as an 8 year old, anti-mentorship, and building the world’s first cybersecurity satire publication.
CrowdStrike Announces NextGen Scholarship Program
CrowdStrike established its NextGen Scholarship Program to support the development of the Next Generation of talent and leadership in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI). NextGen Scholarships provide financial assistance to select undergraduate and graduate students studying cybersecurity and/or AI.
Microsoft Expands Upskilling Initiatives for Women in Cybersecurity
Microsoft is focusing on helping historically underrepresented populations enter the cybersecurity workforce. Specifically, the opportunity for women to work in cybersecurity is huge. Today, women make up only 25% of the global cybersecurity workforce so it’s more important than ever to encourage and empower women to pursue these careers.
Google Launches Cybersecurity Certificates for Entry-Level Workers
“I think there’s a general recognition that you can’t just wish there were more cybersecurity people, you’ve got to create them through training, but you also got to create that entry path to bring them up,” Google’s Mr. Venables said.