In early 2017, Georgia state government made clear its commitment to growing and nurturing the state’s cybersecurity talent with the allocation of an initial $58 million, and then another $35 million, into the Hull McKnight Georgia Cyber Center for Innovation and Training. The campus of the Augusta-based center officially opened on July 10. “This visionary approach […]
This week, Attorney Generals from the U.S. and Mexico will unveil a new system for finding victims of the human trafficking industry — a shadowy, hard-to-track criminal system that captures millions each year. The system will employ facial recognition data, pulled from photos that families of missing individuals can submit, to build a shared database […]
In order to expand the footprint and resources for cybersecurity startups in Georgia, the soon-to-open Hull McKnight Georgia Cyber Center for Innovation and Training in Augusta has formed a strategic partnership with entrepreneur-focused non-profit theClubhou.se to manage its new innovation space, opening this July. The $100 million Cyber Center is the single largest investment in a cybersecurity facility […]
PwC’s 2018 Global State of Information Security survey showed that almost half — 48 percent — of companies surveyed don’t have an employee security awareness training in place, while 54 percent don’t have incident response plans in regards to cybersecurity threats. “Thinking through how you’re dealing with stress testing in the incident response programs cannot be understated,” […]
Cybersecurity breaches, increasingly common at large organizations, are at best embarrassing and at worse, a dangerous breach of customer data and internal knowledge. This wide range and frequent nature of hacks is why the fairly recently-created role of a Chief Information Security Officer is growing more and more critical at businesses. One study found that […]