Cyber Security News from CYBER RANGES

There is a shortage of qualified workers in cybersecurity, and the vacancies are expected to rise. Statistics show that there may be up to 3.5 million cybersecurity job vacancies by 2021. This figure is scary because other statistics estimate that cybercrimes will cost the world $6 trillion by 2021. This is an industry that is growing at a higher rate than most other industries.

As the threat intelligence landscape grows and evolves, so does the need for tools that help us defend against evolving threats. Tools alone, mind you, will not be sufficient enough for us to defend our assets and keep our organizations operational.

Code Injection vulnerabilities is a general term that describes vulnerabilities that can be exploited by an attacker to inject and execute malicious code. This vulnerability occurs usually due to the lack of untrusted data validation. Applications which directly evaluate code without validating it first would be vulnerable

Whether channelled to an individual or business, cybersecurity threats are real and devastating. Governments and multinational organizations are gaining interest in

Incident response teams and SOC analysts need to keep their knowledge and skills up to date with regard to the most relevant and current threats, in order to improve incident handling, teamwork, compliance skills, workflows, run-book usage, and other operational skills.

CYBER RANGES by Silensec is proud to announce its Platinum Sponsorship of the MENA Information Security Conference 2021 hosted by VirtuPort. CYBER RANGES has joined other big names in the industry such as Blackberry, CISCO, Crowdstrike and Trend Micro.

Gartner has predicted the use of cyber ranges by large organizations to rise from 1% to 15% by 2022. Cyber ranging is an increasingly well appreciated way of boosting cyber dexterity, cyber posture and resilience for nations and organizations alike, since cyber ranging effectively addresses the 3 dimensions of cyber security: people, processes and technologies. This translates into the following number of macro use-cases:

Cyber Range technology – Over last two years, the cyber security market has watched the introduction of a larger and larger number of cyber range technologies, products and related services.

As a result of the global pandemic currently ongoing, we rely on technology more than ever to do our work and interact with friends and family. Social distancing practices have led to the increased time spent in our homes and therefore more time spent on the internet.