Ben Kapon, Author at Cybint

Teaching Cybersecurity In Higher Education

Top 8 Things Higher Education Should be Teaching Cyber Security Students

Blog Articles, Education, Higher Education / Ben Kapon

The cybersecurity job market is full of opportunity. Experts predict that by 2021, there will be 3.5 million unfiled cybersecurity jobs. This reflects the both the growing number of cyber threats and lack of properly trained cyber professionals. This workforce shortage is crippling the field, and cyber security educators are struggling to keep up. Now, […]

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13 Cybersecurity Tips for Cyber Monday Safety

Best Practices, Blog Articles, Cyber Awareness / Ben Kapon

If you’ve been looking forward to cyber Monday deals, you’re not alone. Hackers are also gearing up for the massive online shopping day, preparing to ramp up their efforts for a festive hacking season. Before you jump into one of the biggest spending days of the season, it’s good time to brush up on these

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Maximizing the ROI of Cybersecurity Employee Training

Blog Articles, Business/Corporate/Enterprise, Employee Training / Ben Kapon

Today, data breaches and cyber attacks aren’t a matter of “if” but “when,” making cybersecurity employee training a must. While cybersecurity training doesn’t directly generate revenue, it’s important to calculate it as a measurable metric, and ultimately determine the ROI of cybersecurity employee training. To first measure the ROI of cybersecurity employee training, you’ll have

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Cybersecurity Education: Why Universities are Missing the Mark

Blog Articles, Education, Higher Education, Workforce Shortage / Ben Kapon

The unfilled cybersecurity jobs worldwide has reached over 4 million. The cybersecurity skills gap – which only continues to grow – has many conflating or interrelating causes, but at the top of the list is cybersecurity education. Cybersecurity education in is lacking. For instance, out of the top 50 computer science programs in the US,

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10 Cybersecurity Trends To Watch Going Into 2020

Blog Articles, Cyber Awareness, Facts & Stats / Ben Kapon

Cybercrimes are becoming more frequent and more damaging. As the world becomes increasingly digitized, cybersecurity can no longer be put on the backburner. Every October, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) is held to raise awareness of the growing concerns of the safety and security of the digital world. For NCSAM 2019, we’ve put together a

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5 Reasons Why Your Cybersecurity Approach Should Be Risk-Based

Blog Articles, Business/Corporate/Enterprise, Cyber Awareness, Employee Training, Facts & Stats / Ben Kapon

While cyber threats may not be in your control, your cybersecurity strategy is – and it should be risk-based. A risk-based approach to cybersecurity means that your security team is primarily concerned with reducing your organization’s likelihood and vulnerability in case of a cyberattack. A risk-based approach begins with an understanding of your business’s critical

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4 IoT Security Risks in Your Normal Day

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The internet of things (IoT) plays a big role in our everyday routine, whether we realize it or not. These include things like the wireless speaker playing music at your favorite coffee shop to the wireless printer at your office. Although this increased connection makes many tasks convenient and accessible, it opens up a lot

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DoorDash Data Breach Exposes Nearly 5 Million Users. Here’s How to Protect Yourself

Best Practices, Blog Articles, Cyber Awareness, Facts & Stats / Ben Kapon

The food delivery service confirmed a data breach exposed the records of 4.9 million, including customers, delivery workers, and merchants. Hackers stole information including: names, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, passwords, and partial credit card and bank account numbers. The passwords exposed the DoorDash data breach were “hashed and salted” -this means there were

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5 Ways Virtual Simulations Drastically Improve Your Cybersecurity Strategy

Best Practices, Blog Articles, Business/Corporate/Enterprise, Cyber Awareness, Employee Training / Ben Kapon

You can’t control whether your organization is the target of a cyber-attack, but you can control how prepared you are to handle it. Cybersecurity is essentially contingent on human interactions between the user, the defender, and the attacker. Kaspersky Lab reports that 90% of corporate data breaches are caused by social engineering attacks and employee

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Phishing, Vishing, Smishing: Why These Attacks Are on the Rise

Blog Articles, Cyber Awareness, Facts & Stats / Ben Kapon

Most of us have seen it. An email asking you to collect your large inheritance. A Nigerian prince who would like to send you his fortune for safekeeping. These types of scams have been around for years. By now, many of us should be aware that this is a typical phishing attack. The golden rule

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