A Rising Tide Lifts all Boats: Celebrating National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCAM) in October reminds us of the importance of being safer online, in both our professional and personal lives.
Workforce Development Professionals: Use Cyber Training to Meet Client’s Talent and Readiness Needs
In honor of Workforce Development Professionals Month in September, we want to recognize the hard work that workforce development professionals are doing to help companies and organizations keep talent pipelines full with qualified candidates. In the context of cyber training and education, perhaps now more than ever, it’s important to understand the value of hands-on cyber training […]
To Buy or to Build a Cyber Range? That is the Question!
Distance learning is likely here to stay yet today’s cyber educators still need to find ways to meaningfully connect with their students during these socially-distant times. Cyber educators can effectively enrich student remote learning with hands-on cyber ranges. To actualize these goals to create immersive, engaging learning environments, educators must decide whether to build or buy a cyber range—yet it can be a significant decision to weigh by yourself. Circadence’s Josh Selfe provided tips and much-needed context on cyber ranges in his …
Real World cybersecurity Experience: From Learning to Earning
Real world, experiential learning helps students develop knowledge, skills, and abilities that they can take directly from the classroom to the workplace. This direct connection from learning to earning is important to all students, but none more so than adult learners who have gone back to school, often while continuing …
3 Ways Tech Companies Can Improve the Talent Acquisition Process
It’s reasonable to correlate the quality of the talent acquisition process to the quality of employees in the company– which is tied to the success of the company. Yet, there is currently a shortage of qualified experts in field of cybersecurity and there has been for quite some time. …
How person-centered cyber training supports threat prevention in financial companies
cybersecurity threats and preventive measures go hand-in-hand. Yet cybercrime continues to impose threats on the financial industry. Financial services firms are 300 times as likely as other companies to be targeted by a cyberattack,” according to a report by the Boston Consulting Group. These threats can arise at any time and …
Living our Mission: Circadence Collaborates with Academia and Army to Support Cyber Range Virtual Environment Replication and Construction with N/CRAF
Circadence announced in May 2020 the latest development of an automated network mapping tool for IT use, based on collaborative work with Mississippi State University engineers and researchers. Circadence has had a six-year partnership with the university and the Threat Systems Management Office of Redstone Arsenal (TSMO) and has worked …
An Educator’s Perspective: The Impacts of Distance Learning and Teaching, a Q&A with Dr. Bradley Hayes
We are continuously reminded of the stark reality that higher education teaching and learning is indeed different today than it was a few months ago. Since Circadence is committed to cybersecurity education and training, we try to stay on top of the latest developments with distance learning so that …
Distance Learning and Teaching for cybersecurity Programs
Distance Learning Today Practically overnight distance learning has become the ‘new norm’ for academic institutions. Educators worldwide are figuring out what Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) means for their specific courses and subject matter for summer term and likely fall term 2020. And while the immediate remote learning requirements for pandemic …
Cyber Ranges and How They Improve Security Training
WHAT ARE CYBER RANGES? Cyber ranges were initially developed by government agencies looking to better train their cyber operators on new skills and techniques. To do this, a physical range or ranges were installed on-premise. Cyber range providers built representations of actual networks, systems, and tools that helped cyber professionals safely train in virtual, secure environments without compromising the agency’s operational network infrastructure. Today, cyber ranges are …
