Cybersecurity Talent Shortage Prompts White House Action

The Biden administration launches an initiative to encourage careers in cybersecurity, as businesses try new tactics to get unfilled IT security roles staffed. [TechWeb]( Follow Dark Reading: [RSS]( September 09, 2024 LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY [Cybersecurity Talent Shortage Prompts White House Action]( The Biden administration launches an initiative to encourage careers in cybersecurity, as businesses try new tactics to get unfilled IT security roles staffed. [CISA Flags ICS Bugs in Baxter, Mitsubishi Products]( The vulnerabilities affect industrial control tech used across the healthcare and critical manufacturing sectors. [Commercial Spyware Use Roars Back Despite Sanctions]( Vendors of mercenary spyware tools used by nation-states to track citizens and enemies have gotten savvy about evading efforts to limit their use. 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[The Role of Trust Anchors in Modern IT Security]( To fully realize the benefits trust anchors provide, organizations need to implement processes and technologies that maintain the privacy and security of trust anchors and the personal data they contain. [How CISOs Can Effectively Communicate Cyber-Risk]( A proximity resilience graph offers a more accurate representation of risk than heat maps and risk registers, and allows CISOs to tell a complex story in a single visualization. [FBI: North Korean Actors Readying Aggressive Cyberattack Wave]( Sophisticated social engineering is expected to accompany threat campaigns that are highly targeted and aimed at stealing crypto and deploying malware. 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