Dear Reader, 

 It's been some busy weeks here at Cyber Protection magazine, with a noteable new video format we rolled out - we are sure you are going to like it.   

If you're more into reading, we have some interesting topics in this newsletter: we take a look at the highly dynamic cybersecurity job market, analyze how working from home affects security measures and we deep dive into the security of one of the hottest trends in the technology market: blockchain. 

And, if you are more into live discussions: our Lou Covey will be hosting a panel on cloud security at the Secure and Private Compute Summit on July 6-8. 

Plenty of topics to cover, so with no further ado: enjoy reading our newsletter. 

Best regards

Patrick Boch & Lou Covey
Editors

P.S.: for those who haven't used it yet: at the end of our newsletter you will find a coupon which gives you 15% off all website purchases at our partner Sectigo.

Opportunities in Cybersecurity

The world’s job markets are definitely shifting emphasis to the employees’ favor and no other one market may be as hot as cybersecurity, with more than a million open positions by some counts. It’s an ongoing subject we cover at Cyber Protection Magazine in February by Matt Donato, co-founder of HuntSource, The Talent Shortage Crisis in Cyber Security and How to Overcome It. We followed that up in June with an interview with Revital Librand, chief marketing officer at odix in Israel and coverage of the opportunities for women at the WomenTech Global Conference.

How security issues are affecting Work From Home

Work, in general, is severely affected by the transition to remote working. Cloud computing use is skyrocketing as crucial employees demand to stay home to work and threaten to quit if they aren’t allowed. That puts intensive strain on IT departments to protect the networks. Anurag Kahol, CTO and co-founder of Bitglass, outlined five trends in securing the cloud.

Blockchain, Bitcoin and Security

From saviour for entire industries, to climate killer due to increasingly high energy consumption – blockchain seems to divide the tech world., are also seen as very secure mechanism. But are Blockchain and cryptocurrency this really secure? We spoke with Prof. Aggelos Kiayias, Chief Scientist at blockchain technology company IOHK, about the security and future of blockchain.

Video Bytes feature

We started a new series of video interviews on our YouTube channel called Video Bytes where we ask a single question of an expert. We launched with in interview with Alan Grau of Sectigo about SMBs as a big target for cybercrimeand with Don Boxley of DH2 on Software Defined Perimeters

Coming up

•   The explosive growth of ransomware has fueled debates over it’s future. On one side are proponents of outlawing the payment of ransomware as a way to stop it. On the other side is outlawing cryptocurrency altogether. We think the answer lies somewhere in the middle. We are going to see if we can find where that middle is and what can possibly be done.

•   There isn’t a week that goes by that we don’t get a press release announcing a miraculous product or service that, once and for all, fixes the problem of network security. We are going to start looking at them in groups that we are calling “the holy grail market.”

•   In our ongoing coverage of the cybersecurity market we’ve found that a common frustration among hiring managers is the quality of candidates being sent to them by human resources. We’ve also found that human resource managers are frustrated by the lack of clear qualifications and flexibility they receive in hunting for candidates. We are going to list what HR needs to know.

Finally, as promised, here is the coupon for Sectigo:

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