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News alert: Security Risk Advisors launchs VECTR Enterprise Edition for ‘purple team’ benchmarking

The Last Watchdog

Wainwright “We’re excited to release VECTR Enterprise to help CISOs and their teams clearly tell the story of their adversary detection program strengths, needs, and changes over time. This allows user teams to focus on testing, reporting, and remediation without additional burden on system administrators.

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My Story So Far and Your Own Career Journey

Lenny Zeltser

Episode 2: Adaptation In the second episode, I share the unusual path I followed to my current role as a CISO, having undertaken a variety of positions in cybersecurity. System administration, network security, penetration testing, professional services, product management. It's been quite a journey!

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Red Team vs Blue Team vs Purple Team: Differences Explained

eSecurity Planet

Blue team members might be led by a chief information security officer (CISO) or director of security operations, making this team the largest among the three. Blue teams consist of security analysts, network engineers and system administrators.

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The secrets to start a cybersecurity career

Responsible Cyber

Key Responsibilities: Leading security operations center (SOC) Developing security strategies Managing incident response efforts Chief Information Security Officer (CISO): Serves as the top executive responsible for an organization’s information security strategy and implementation.

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Top 9 Trends In Cybersecurity Careers for 2025

eSecurity Planet

Networking and system administration: Security professionals must instinctively understand network and system concepts. It’s obviously a step to penetration testing, but it’s also helpful for architect, engineer, and analyst jobs. Network giant Cisco Systems Inc. Salary: $124,424, Cyberseek.

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Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

Spinone

Always keep your eyes open to control-rights of the senior IT managers or systems administrators with the authority to configure servers, firewalls, cloud storage, and file-sharing (or another network privilege).

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Ransomware Operator: 'Start **cking Up the U.S. Public Sector'

SecureWorld News

Paul Caiazzo, the CISO at Avertium, discussed this problem on a recent SecureWorld Remote Session : "What we see a lot is attackers in this space are typically not using novel, zero-day type approaches to break into networks, they're using lack of hygiene. Have we tested this?". And then ultimately use legitimate tools against victim.