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When most people think of a hacker, they think of a dishonest individual who uses techniques to bypass a system’s defenses and steal confidential and sensitive information. Security breaches, data as well as identify theft are all incidents which can occur as a result of a hacker breaking into a system. However, in this modern workplace where information can ...

Computer related crime is very prevalent in this day of global communication, people bringing their personal electronic items to work as well as many companies having people who do not work in house but instead opt to work remotely. For this reason, the field of digital investigation is an emerging field and up to date knowledge of the latest practices ...

Many of the Members that join Cybrary, join because they are looking to begin a career in cyber security. This is obviously a great idea given that the amount of unfilled jobs in cyber security, globally, is estimated to be over 1 million. The question is though, where should one begin when they have no tech, IT, or cyber security ...

Public key cryptography has been around for a long time. Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman invented it in 1976. It sometimes goes by the name Diffie-Hellman encryption as well as symmetric encryption as it uses to keys instead of one (this is called symmetric encryption). Cryptography uses two kinds of encryptions: A public key which is known to ...

Electronic discovery, also known as e-discovery refers to a process of how information is obtained, located and secured to be used as evidence in a civil or criminal legal case. E-discovery can be carried out in the following ways: Offline On a particular computer As part of a network In addition to the ...

The CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP) certification is a credential that designates professionals IT industry with advanced-level security skills and knowledge. The CASP certification is approved by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to meet IA technical and management certification requirements and is a credential favored by multinational corporations such as Dell and HP. It is vendor neutral and ...

Over the past few years, the news has been full of stories detailing how large corporations put the security information of tens of thousands of their clients at risk. More times than not, these risks came as the result of low-level employees doing things to compromise the cyber security of large multi-million-dollar corporations. In an effort to combat security breaches, ...

Threat intelligence company Recorded Future has just released a daily email service that will deliver up-to-date information on the latest threat indicators for IT and cyber security professionals. The service, called the Cyber Daily, is a free newsletter that will include the top five results in each category for trending technical indicators that Recorded Future has analyzed over ...

The end user security awareness industry has taken off substantially in the last several years. As more and more organizations are breached and embarrassed publicly due to end user negligence or malevolence, the mass adoption of "we need to do something about this" has spread rampantly. What we previously believed to be a problem reserved for major corporations, we ...

Cybrary's initiative is to make cyber security learning free and open for everyone, everywhere. This basically means, we want to provide the opportunity to learn to those who either want to begin a career in the field, or for those who want to advance within their current IT or cyber security job. In order to reach this goal, we need ...