The Forensics of Cyber Attacks – and the Power of Live-Fire Exercises
Delve into the critical world of digital forensics, and explore how forensic experts play a pivotal role in unraveling the mysteries behind cyber breaches. Learn about the indispensable collaboration between incident response and digital forensics, and how continuous learning and practical exercises can strengthen your cybersecurity defenses.
Cyber Reskilling: A Strategy to Reduce Cybersecurity Skills Gaps
Explore the concept of cyber reskilling and its effectiveness in addressing skills gaps within cybersecurity. Additionally, uncover best practices for reskilling individuals in the field of cybersecurity.
5 Crucial Techniques of Effective Incident Commanders
Get valuable insights into being an Incident Commander in cybersecurity, including essential skills and strategies for leading incident response teams. This blog provides an overview and some key takeaways from our recent webinar and panel discussion.
The Value of Human-Centric Cybersecurity
Gain insights into the importance of adopting a human-centric approach to cybersecurity and its impact on the capacity to thwart, identify, and address cyber threats. Explore the transformative potential of tailored training, security policies, and psychological elements in shaping your organization's security culture.
Speeding Discovery of a Cyber Attack
The landscape of cyber attacks is evolving, increasing in complexity, frequency, and associated costs. Explore the most effective strategies for expediting cyber attack detection through a proficient SOC team, understand the efficacy of this approach, discover leading detection tools, and recognize the risks associated with delayed detection.
Purple Teaming in Cybersecurity: 101
Explore purple teaming, a collaborative approach in cybersecurity. Learn about purple team activities, best practices, and the significance of live-fire cyber ranges in this dynamic security practice.
Exploring the NICE Framework Q&A
We had many compelling questions in our recent webinar applying the NICE Framework across different sectors, its relevance to different levels of seniority within a cyber role, how organizations can align their cybersecurity training strategies with the Framework, and more.
Demystifying the NICE Framework
The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Framework makes it easier for you to find and train the right people for your cyber team if you know how to use it. This blog outlines 5 steps.
Training and Evaluating the Modern SOC
The modern detection and response analyst is faced with a variety of challenges. Adversaries are constantly developing and deploying new TTPs. Organizations must continually adapt their environment to meet business challenges, often introducing new security solutions for detecting and responding to an attack.
Communication: How live-simulation training helps cyber analysts speed up soft skills
What CyberMaxx has witnessed as a result of Cloud Range training is more open communication between analysts, which has equated to faster response times, a stronger team, and better results for both CyberMaxx and customers receiving MAXX services.
Using Realistic Range Simulations for Cyber Readiness with Cloud Range
In this interview with TAG Cyber, Cloud Range founder & CEO Debbie Gordon answers questions about current SOC team challenges, upcoming cyber threats, and products that prepare cyber defense teams.
FlexLabs™: Closing the Cyber Skills Gap
FlexLabs cyber skills training and development solutions help reduce the gap between what a job role requires and what someone actually can accomplish. Over 1,500 training labs, certification prep SkillPaks, work role learning plans, challenge labs, skills assessments, and more – all mapped to the NICE Workforce Framework. Accessible on-demand 24/7.
5 Ways Security Leaders Are Using Cyber Ranges and Simulation to Improve Security Posture
Cyber ranges and simulation can be used for multiple purposes that will help you identify the right team members and train them into an elite group of cyber defenders that work well together to improve your security posture.
National Cyber Security Awareness Month: Focus on People
This year’s National Cyber Security Month focuses on the human element of cybersecurity. We love that because PEOPLE are a vital part of your technology stack. When security teams are more prepared and confident, organizations benefit from an improved security posture and measurably reduced risk.
Helping CISOs Avoid Burnout and Reduce Risk
The CISO role is vital. The recent 2022 Global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Survey shows that CISO salaries have increased, which reflects their value and higher profile in their organizations. But CISOs are at risk of burnout. Cloud Range can help.
The Cyber Learner Lifecycle™
The Cyber Learner Lifecycle™ covers all the stages for learning and training that a cybersecurity professional goes through, including everything that happens before employment, as they're employed, and throughout their career.
CISOs Look To Bake Simulation Into Cyber Defense [Cybercrime Magazine]
The bad guys are going to be one step ahead — as we hear about in the news every day — and CISOs have to acknowledge that everything is not going to be secure. CISOs should include simulation in cyber defense to help their teams do as much as they can to stay ahead of what is yet to come.
Using a Cyber Range to Hire & Train an Awesome SOC Team
The cybersecurity industry has a conundrum. It’s hard to find and vet top-notch SOC analysts and then train them into a successful, collaborative team. Good news: There are cyber range solutions that can help.
Five Questions Senior Executives Should Ask CISOs About Training
Cybersecurity has emerged as an important component of the conversations that occur at the senior executive and board levels. Furthermore, it is no longer uncommon for boards and leadership teams to include at least one member who has some experience in this critically important area. To address this issue, we offer below five questions that senior executives should ask their Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
Using Cyber Simulation to Improve OT/ICS Security
Security teams need to understand not only traditional cybersecurity tactics and procedures, but also OT-specific ones. Cyber simulation exercises designed expressly for OT/ICS security help cyber defenders be more effective and reduce risk.