Building the Next Generation of Cyber Professionals

New technologies lead to new products, which lead to a need for more cybersecurity professionals. It’s an ongoing cycle. Future security professionals will need to focus on some key concepts in order to be knowledgeable and equipped to handle the stability and security issues of tomorrow’s technology.

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Real-Life IT Horror Stories: The Day the Logic Bomb Went Off

AMC’s television series “Halt and Catch Fire” shows North Texas’ rise as the “Silicon Prairie.” In the 1980s and early 1990s, it’s where IBM PC cloning was explored and where first-person shooter games were created. It’s also the site of the first “logic bomb”—the source of my horror story.

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Real-Life IT Horror Stories: The Avoidable DNS Disaster

While acting as vice president of a performance-based Internet marketing company, I oversaw the migration to a new infrastructure, an important part of which involved changing over 300 of our DNS records. Imagine my horror when I discovered that we’d mistakenly misrouted nearly all of those records, taking the entire company down.

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