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Hence, Mayur Rele, a cybersecurity expert with great experience in overseeing global technology, security, in many businesses and organizations across the world takes us through ways to transform from general information technology to cybersecurity. Read on!
#SecurityScorecard raises $20 million to scale its #CyberSecurity risk-monitoring platform
SecurityScorecard, a cybersecurity rating and risk-monitoring platform, has raised $20 million in a round led by Google investment fund GV, with participation from Two Sigma Ventures and existing investors Sequoia Capital, Evolution Equity Partners, and Boldstart Ventures.
Founded out of New York in 2013, SecurityScorecard specializes in helping organizations monitor and manage key security risks around their cloud-based systems. It identifies vulnerabilities from a hacker’s perspective on the outside, and even looks at the third-party vendors a company is doing business with.
“Search engines crawl and index web pages across the internet,” said Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, CEO of SecurityScorecard. “In a similar fashion, SecurityScorecard continuously surveys, analyzes, and indexes vulnerabilities across the entire internet to determine the security posture for every organization worldwide.”
Cybersecurity is one of the biggest emerging subjects of investment in recent times. Major tech companies are investing heavily in the field, while other tech titans are addressing an anticipated shortage in cybersecurity personnel — estimates suggest that the industry will be short by around 1.5 million people by 2020. Just last week, Cisco announced a new $10 million scholarship program to “increase the pool of available talent with critical cybersecurity proficiency.” And last month, Facebook open-sourced its Capture the Flag competition platform to teach developers about cybersecurity.
Artificial intelligence is also beginning to infiltrate the cybersecurity realm — earlier this month, Cylance raised $100 million for a system that helps businesses protect themselves from advanced security threats by scanning networks for weaknesses and shutting them down if any are detected.
As part of this latest funding round, Karim Faris, a general partner at GV, will join SecurityScorecard’s board of directors, alongside Tom Mendoza, who will represent Sequoia Capital.
“We see SecurityScorecard as a transformational solution that addresses the cybersecurity pandemic,” added Faris. “Organizations need a solution that provides continuous, reliable, and actionable security intelligence, and SecurityScorecard will lead this paradigm shift.”
SecurityScorecard had raised around $15 million before this latest Series B round, meaning it has now raised in the region of $35 million in total. The funding will be used to help SecurityScorecard scale its cybersecurity platform.
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The Department of Energy’s Consortium Enabling Cybersecurity Opportunities & Research (CECOR) connects students at historically black colleges and universities with cybersecurity internships at Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories.
Created in 2015, the consortium has enabled students at participating institutions to come to Sandia for summer internships, gain work experience and cultivate interests and skills.
“CECOR is a great way for Sandia to bring these stellar and talented students from underrepresented, minority populations to the labs to create a workforce that approaches challenges with diverse perspectives,” said Han Lin, the program’s manager at Sandia.
Learn more at bit.ly/33isrPA.
Photo by Randy Montoya
The Department of Energy’s Consortium Enabling Cybersecurity Opportunities & Research (CECOR) connects students at historically black colleges and universities with cybersecurity internships at Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories.
Created in 2015, the consortium has enabled students at participating institutions to come to Sandia for summer internships, gain work experience and cultivate interests and skills.
“CECOR is a great way for Sandia to bring these stellar and talented students from underrepresented, minority populations to the labs to create a workforce that approaches challenges with diverse perspectives,” said Han Lin, the program’s manager at Sandia.
Learn more at bit.ly/33isrPA.
Photo by Randy Montoya
Imagen original extraida de Extinct monsters; a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life (1896) en archive.org (Lámina XII), pero descubierta a través del recomendable blog BibliOdyssey, con un fragmento de texto de la EFF
Rogers’ “Cybersecurity” Bill Is Broad Enough to Use Against WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay
Congress is doing it again: they’re proposing overbroad regulations that could have dire consequences for our Internet ecology. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (H.R. 3523), introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, allows companies or the government1 free rein to bypass existing laws in order to monitor communications, filter content, or potentially even shut down access to online services for “cybersecurity purposes.” Companies are encouraged to share data with the government and with one another, and the government can share data in return. The idea is to facilitate detection of and defense against a serious cyber threat, but the definitions in the bill go well beyond that. The language is so broad it could be used as a blunt instrument to attack websites like The Pirate Bay or WikiLeaks. Join EFF in calling on Congress to stop the Rogers’ cybersecurity bill.
Under the proposed legislation, a company that protects itself or other companies against “cybersecurity threats” can “use cybersecurity systems to identify and obtain cyber threat information to protect the rights and property” of the company under threat. But because “us[ing] cybersecurity systems” is incredibly vague, it could be interpreted to mean monitoring email, filtering content, or even blocking access to sites. A company acting on a “cybersecurity threat” would be able to bypass all existing laws, including laws prohibiting telcos from routinely monitoring communications, so long as it acted in “good faith.”
The broad language around what constitutes a cybersecurity threat leaves the door wide open for abuse. For example, the bill defines “cyber threat intelligence” and “cybersecurity purpose” to include “theft or misappropriation of private or government information, intellectual property, or personally identifiable information.”
Yes, intellectual property. It’s a little piece of SOPA wrapped up in a bill that’s supposedly designed to facilitate detection of and defense against cybersecurity threats. The language is so vague that an ISP could use it to monitor communications of subscribers for potential infringement of intellectual property. An ISP could even interpret this bill as allowing them to block accounts believed to be infringing, block access to websites like The Pirate Bay believed to carry infringing content, or take other measures provided they claimed it was motivated by cybersecurity concerns.
The language of “theft or misappropriation of private or government information” is equally concerning. Regardless of the intent of this language, the end result is that the government and Internet companies could use this language to block sites like WikiLeaks and NewYorkTimes.com, both of which have published classified information. Online publishers like WikiLeaks are currently afforded protection under the First Amendment; receiving and publishing classified documents from a whistleblower is a common journalistic practice. While there’s uncertainty about whether the Espionage Act could be brought to bear against WikiLeaks, it is difficult to imagine a situation where the Espionage Act would apply to WikiLeaks without equally applying to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and in fact everyone who reads about the cablegate releases. But under Rogers' cybersecurity proposal, the government would have new, powerful tools to go after WikiLeaks. By claiming that WikiLeaks constituted “cyber threat intelligence” (aka “theft or misappropriation of private or government information”), the government may be empowering itself and other companies to monitor and block the site. This means that the previous tactics used to silence WikiLeaks—including a financial blockade and shutting down their accounts with online service providers—could be supplemented by very direct means. The government could proclaim that WikiLeaks constitutes a cybersecurity threat and have new, broad powers to filter and block communication with the journalistic website.
Congress is intent on passing cybersecurity legislation this year, and there are multiple proposals in the House and the Senate under debate. But none is as poorly drafted and dangerously vague as the Rogers bill. We need to stop this bill in its tracks, before it can advance in the House and before the authors can negotiate to place this overbroad language into other cybersecurity proposals.
Internet security is a serious problem that needs to be addressed. But we don’t need to sacrifice our civil liberties to do so.
The lure of the Smart Grid appears irresistible. If Smart Grids can realize their full potential then consumers, utilities, nations, and even the earth itself will benefit. Unfortunately, as with nearly any new technology, the focus has been on getting Smart Grids up and running, often with little consideration for Cyber Security.