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The National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity, as part of the National Security Agency (NSA), has awarded a grant in the amount of $1.67 million to the CIAS to help communities become more cyber secure nationwide. The CIAS will work with multiple communities during the two-year grant, beginning with Angelo State University and the city of San Angelo.
Information sharing is a key element of any cybersecurity program. This article introduces information sharing at the individual, organizational and community levels.
A good defense requires that IT security professionals think like an attacker to defend their organizations tactically and preemptively. In general, security professionals need to develop "oblique thinking," enabling an adversarial mindset that focuses on identifying assumptions and determining if and how these assumptions can be violated. This article focuses focus on the (1) reconnaissance, (2) scanning (3) and gaining access phases of hacking and how to defend against them.
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