Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.
I continue to be saddened by all the conflict in Israel and Gaza that’s still ongoing. I’ll be back with a “normal” newsletter next week, as unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a peaceful solution coming any time soon.
In the meantime, I just wanted to use this space again to provide a roundup of the best resources I found this week for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Taking a “Security Action” of any kind — whether it be simply enabling multi-factor authentication for your online banking login or marking that weird email as spam — can go a long way toward you and any organizations you’re a part of be more security resilient.
The Annual Cybersecurity Attitudes and Behaviors Report 2023 (National Cybersecurity Alliance) 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (Verizon) Cisco is continuing to invest in the future of skills certifications. Here’s how the company thinks it’ll help fill the lack of cybersecurity experts (Fortune) The open nature of XDR and cross-domain telemetry (Cisco Secure livestream) Federal Cyber Chief Tells Agencies to Tap Brakes on AI (Wall Street Journal) Former NSA Director: AI is ‘double-edged sword’ for cybersecurity (The Hill) helpful resources users skill levels security action
