Hear from Rakesh Kharwal how this holiday season with the rampant increase in purchasing activities, online payment platforms are at a greater risk of succumbing to the hostile attacks of cyber-miscreants.
Cyberbit has announced that cloud and IT entrepreneur Dan Phillips, and cybersecurity leader Jim Hansen, have joined the company’s Board of Directors. This marks the next phase in Cyberbit’s scale, following its recent $70M investment from Charlesbank Capital Partners in May of 2020, and the Company’s continued growth over the last few years.
According to our survey of SOC leaders, 89% of organizations in India still rely on classroom training and tabletop exercises, which do not prepare their SOC teams for the experience of a real-world attack.
Only 32% of companies are aligning their training to MITRE, creating a gap in experience measurement that could be critical in incident response.
Rakesh explains that with the skill gap slated to increase with time due to the absence of real-time experiential and practical cybersecurity upskilling and training courses in universities and tech-institutes, India needs to readdress and reimagine the cybersecurity training curriculums using real-life cyber-simulation tools to provide a hands-on learning and optimization process to tech-professionals.
NACRA today announced that it will open registration for NACRA Cyber Quest 2020 to the general public on September 1, 2020. NACRA Cyber Quest 2020 is a real-time, virtual cyber range skill-building and competition event featuring 14 virtual events and offering more than 390 hands-on challenge experiences.
In the event of rising cybersecurity invasions and breaches occurring at a torrential pace, the demand for cybersecurity solutions is projected to mushroom phenomenally. With businesses making the formal shift to the online medium, the cybersecurity market in India is expected to touch $3 billion by 2022 while growing at a CAGR of 16% as per reports from PwC-DSCI.
As the pandemic is making the cybercrime situation worse, and more and more Indian employees are working from home, India is still unable to fulfill the demand for a cybersecurity workforce. Learn from our Rakesh Kharwal what is the reason for this gap and the role human vulnerability plays in encouraging cybercrime.