Cybersecurity Faces 1.8 Million Worker Shortfall By 2022

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Dark Reading | June 7, 2017

Over the next five years, the number of unfilled cybersecurity jobs will rise to a whopping 1.8 million, a 20% increase from 2015 estimates, according to a new (ISC)2 survey released today.

Driving this widening shortage is not only the often discussed lack of qualified workers but also a greater need to bring in more warm bodies to tackle the rapidly evolving ways that cybercriminals and attackers are launching their nefarious activities, according to the report. It’s getting easier for low-tech criminals to get into hacking, thanks to malware-as-a-service operations and crimeware kits.

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Cybersecurity Talent Shortage Set to Hit 3.5M by 2021

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SiliconANGLE | June 6, 2017

If you’re looking for a tech job that will be in abundance in the years ahead, the cybersecurity marketplace will be the ideal place to find one, according to a newly published report on the employment prospects in the sector.

The report, from Cybersecurity Ventures Inc., found that the skills shortage will get a lot worse in the coming years. It predicts there will be a gap of 3.5 million positions globally by 2021. Of those unfilled positions, 1 million will be in India alone, with the United States experiencing half a million unfilled vacancies.

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When it Comes to Network Resilience, It’s the Little Things that Count

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GDPR.Report | June 1, 2017

By Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal CTO

Cyber attacks are the new normal for businesses across the globe. When one hits home it can cause major monetary losses and reputational damage for organisations, from which some struggle to recover. Many CEOs have gotten the message, forced into action perhaps by strict new regulatory compliance requirements coming from Europe, or concrete evidence linking severe data breaches to tumbling share prices. That means many have invested in expensive digital security systems. But are they effective, or even necessary?

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New DISA Program Assesses Operational Risk

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SIGNAL Magazine | May 22, 2017

By  J. Wayne Lloyd, RedSeal Federal CTO

As the Defense Information Services Agency (DISA) knows, a network that complies with standards is not necessarily secure. DISA’s new evaluation program, the Command Cyber Operational Readiness Inspection (CCORI), is designed to go beyond standards. Its goal is to provide site commanders and federal agencies an understanding of mission operational risks.

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RedSeal CEO Joins Cheddar TV’s “Closing Bell” to Talk Resilience, WannaCry

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Cheddar | May 18, 2017

 

RedSeal CEO Ray Rothrock joined Cheddar TV’s “Closing Bell” show, where he spoke about resilience, WannaCry and more. Ray’s segment starts at the 1:04:05 mark of the video.

“Prevention has been the strategy of the last 25, 30 years in cybersecurity…You’ve got to have prevention but you need more than that now. Attacks are inside the network – not at the firewall anymore – they are inside. And being inside means you need to know what’s going on inside. You’ve got to know what the network looks like.”

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Security vs. Resilience: Know the Difference

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TechBeacon | May 5, 2017

By Ray Rothrock, RedSeal Chief Executive Officer

If you really want to know the difference between security and resilience, pour yourself a cup of strong coffee and dig into the all-but-impenetrable PPD-21, Presidential Policy Directive—Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience. Or just go to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website, which cuts to the chase with a few good examples of each…

Scan these two lists, and you come to an inescapable conclusion: Security and resilience are not synonyms or even second cousins. In fact, security and resilience have remarkably little to do with one another. The measures under the “security” list are about locking up. Those under “resilience” are about standing up. Security is about hunkering down. Resilience is about doing business.

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7 Habits of a Resilient Business

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Computer Business Review | May 4, 2017

By Ray Rothrock, RedSeal Chief Executive Officer

Here’s the reality: Bad things will happen, and your precautions and defenses will not stop every bad thing. However, this doesn’t mean there’s no hope. It’s quite the opposite, because you have a choice: you can either wish for the best, or decide to be – what the industry is calling: digitally resilient. There is no third alternative. If you choose to face reality and pursue resilience, you need to acquire, cultivate, and hone the seven habits that follow.

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Better Cybersecurity Audits Would Mean Better Network Protection

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ThirdCertainty | April 25, 2017

By RedSeal customer Paul Beaudry, Assistant VP of Information Management Systems, Richardson International

Pick up a newspaper on any given day in 2017 and you’re likely to read the latest chapter in a long-running story: security professionals versus the hackers. Recent revelations around Russian state-sponsored involvement in the 2013 Yahoo hack, and the WikiLeaks-managed exposure of a trove of CIA-developed exploits, means those hackers could even be government employees.

This is a story without an end – a battle which is just getting started. That’s bad news for IT leaders already stretched to the limit by a lack of human resources in their security departments.

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Don’t Let Complex Networks Ground Your Operations

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Forbes | April 25, 2017

By Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal CTO

The Wall Street Journal recently wrote (paywall) about the fragile nature of airline IT infrastructure. They highlighted the way that a single point of failure, such as a failed router, can ripple out to impact global operations. This can happen to any of us when we can’t track which objectives depend on particular technology pieces in our complex environments.

While the WSJ article pinpointed the problem in one specific industry and characterized it as an issue with “aging” technology, the problem is both more widespread and subtle than that. Working at RedSeal, I get to see inside the networks of many different types of organizations — civilian, military, global, tiny. One thing they all share: complexity.

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Security Automation: Game Changer to Boost IT Productivity and Network Resilience

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INFORMATION AGE | April 19, 2017

By Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal CTO

Pick up a newspaper on any given day in 2017 and you’re likely to read the latest chapter in a long-running story: security professionals versus the hackers. Recent revelations around Russian state-sponsored involvement in the 2013 Yahoo hack, and the WikiLeaks-managed exposure of a trove of CIA-developed exploits, means those hackers could even be government employees.

This is a story without an end – a battle which is just getting started. That’s bad news for IT leaders already stretched to the limit by a lack of human resources in their security departments.

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