Yearly Archives: 2016
March 17, 2016 | by Alissa Abaskanova | Blog posts, Video

Hello, everyone!
This video about hardening the endpoints is taken from our “Practical Network Defense” training course PND.
PND is one of eLearnSecurity’s hands-on IT Security training courses, which covers the defensive side of network security. These skills are highly valuable for both the defense team and offense team.
Tags: cybersecurity, Endpoints, hands-on training, hardening endpoints, IT Security, IT security course, IT security practical course, IT security training, network security, pnd, Practical Network Defense, security, Video tutorial
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March 16, 2016 | by Alissa Abaskanova | Blog posts
Privacy is not for the passive. (c) Jeffrey Rosen

Tags: IT Security, IT security quote, Quote
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March 11, 2016 | by Alissa Abaskanova | Blog posts

The Top 5 Hackmes for the month of February, 2016. Test yourself, check out the list of the challenges below:
1. Very basic SQL injection by davidstinemetze
Description: The goal here is to learn the very basics of SQL injection.

2.
Tags: hack, hack.me, hackme, hackme challenge, top 5
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March 9, 2016 | by Alissa Abaskanova | Blog posts
More than ever, enterprises require intelligent, integrated solutions to prevent data theft and network disruption caused by stealthy, targeted attacks. Despite what many vendors would have you believe, there is no one product or “silver bullet” to solve this problem. (c) John Maddison

Tags: IT Security, IT security quote, Quote
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March 4, 2016 | by Alissa Abaskanova | Blog posts, Company News

One of our eLearnSecurity team members,
Davide Carmeci attended the
RSA Conference 2016 in San-Francisco this week. The event is held annually in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
eLearnSecurity is attending the RSA Conference, which aims to bring IT security specialists all over the world together to share their experiences, ideas and knowledge with other industry specialists.
Tags: 2016, incident response, IoT, IT Security, IT security hands-on training, RSA Conference, RSAC2016
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March 2, 2016 | by Alissa Abaskanova | Blog posts
Being afraid isn’t the same as being at risk. Being at risk isn’t the same as being at proximate or intolerable risk. (c) Infospectives

Tags: IT Security, IT security quote, Quote
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February 26, 2016 | by Alissa Abaskanova | Blog posts
Hi, folks!
According to recent reports all over the world IT Security professionals are in high-demand. We created an info-graphic on how online training contribute into reducing the shortage of high-skilled professionals.
Here we go:

Tags: #infosec, cybersecurity, education, eLearnSecurity, IT Security, IT security professionals, Online IT security courses, Online IT Security training, online training, shortage
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February 18, 2016 | by Alissa Abaskanova | Blog posts

There are lots of articles in the news recently about how in demand IT security professionals are. And there’s also a great concern about the shortage of experts in the cyber security industry to meet this demand.
According to a 2015 analysis of numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics by Peninsula Press, a project of the Stanford University Journalism Program, there are more than 209,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S.
Tags: cybersecurity, cybersecurity education, cybersecurity employee, cybersecurity jobs, cybersecurity jobs survey, eLearnSecurity, how to become a penetration tester, information security, infosecurity, IT admins, IT Security, IT security career, IT security employee, IT security expert, IT security professional, IT security training courses, Learn IT security, Online IT security courses, online training, penetration testing, Practical Cybersecurity courses, Practical IT security training, Practical IT Security training course, VPN, web developers
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February 7, 2016 | by Alissa Abaskanova | Blog posts

The Top 5 Hackmes for the month of January, 2016. Test yourself, check out the list of the challenges below:
1. Very basic SQL injection by davidstinemetze
Description: The goal here is to learn the very basics of SQL injection.

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Tags: hackme, hackme challenge, top 5 hackme
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February 4, 2016 | by Alissa Abaskanova | Blog posts

Imagine a young black-hat hacker, probably in his teens, who infiltrates systems and steals data from many different computer systems. He finally gets caught, and after facing the charges and maybe even jail time, he comes back to his passion of testing systems for vulnerabilities.
Tags: #infosec, Cyber Security, IT Security, IT security professional, IT security training, IT staff, mindset
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