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The Security Skills Gap

The UK’s National Audit Office (NAO) released a report in February this year (The UK cyber security strategy: Landscape review) that concluded that a lack of skilled workers is hampering the UK's fight against cybercrime. The European Commission digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes recently told delegates at CeBIT 2013 that the EU's competitiveness is "under threat" if it cannot fill an expanding IT expertise gap. The commission's own figures suggested that there will be 900,000 vacancies for IT-related roles by 2015. Whilst these figures do cover other IT fields than just cybersecurity, the skills gap in our industry is plainly obvious to those in the profession, and it’s felt at every level: strategic, tactical and operational.

: FRANCOIS GRATIOLET, CSO, EMEA, QUALYS; Viewpoints; Posted On Monday, 22 April 2013 10:03

Maintaining the Integrity of SSH Keys

While attending school in Helsinki, I discovered that a hacker attack was targeting our university network. To shield it from the attack, I wrote a program to protect data as it moved throughout the network. I called it the “secure shell,” or SSH for short. Today, SSH keys are used in nearly every major network environment—including large enterprises, financial institutions and governments—to protect data in transit and remotely manage systems.

: TATU YLONEN, CEO AND CO-FOUNDER, SSH COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY; Viewpoints; Posted On Monday, 22 April 2013 10:01

Richard Ruddlesden Appointed As Sales Director of Doherty Associates

Leading IT service and support company Doherty Associates has appointed Richard Ruddlesden as Sales Director. He joins from core Microsoft infrastructure company Teksys. Prior to this, Ruddlesden has held a number of senior sales management positions with Veritas, Seagate, Symantec and Pegasus. In his new role, he will spearhead Doherty’s sales strategy with particular reference to the company’s widely acclaimed CloudToo brand.

: LEIGH RICHARDS; Appointments, Promotions & Personality Profile; Posted On Monday, 22 April 2013 09:59

Average packet-per-second rate reaches 32.4 million according to Prolexic’s Q1 2013 DDoS report

HOLLYWOOD, FL: Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, has announced that average attack bandwidth totaled 48.25 Gbps in Q1 2013, a 718 percent increase over last quarter, and the average packet-per-second rate reached 32.4 million. These startling metrics are just two of many contained in the company’s Quarterly Global DDoS Attack Report, which was published recently.