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Reading 5 Tips Fi X du 1/courses/2171-1 18IT2030C004/Dark%20Reading%20-%205%20Tips%20For%20Stay 6/20/2016 02:00 PM Emily Johnson News Connect Directly B 3 COMMENTS COMMENT NOW Tweet Share 282 G+1 21 5 Tips For Staying Cyber-Secure On Your Summer Vacation Stick with mobile payment apps and carrier networks when traveling. And don't broadcast your plans or locations via social media. Summer is officially here, and with that comes vacation season. But before you go, make sure you're following these simple steps to stay cyber-Secure while you soak up the sun 1. Don't broadcast your plans or location. It can be fun to share vacation locales (impending or while you're there) on social media. Passive aggressively making all of your colleagues, family, and friends jealous that you're drinking mojitos and digging your toes in the sand feels good. We get it. But here's the problem: ifyour privacy settings aren't configured correctly, it won't just be your colleagues, family, and friends who know where you are (and that you probably just connected to a very insecure network to that picture of your hot dog legs against the ocean). Lock down your social networks so only people you know and trust can see your posts. C

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Intel Security in partnership with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) confirms the perceived cybersecurity skills shortage and the real risk that poses for organizations.

The study, which surveyed eight countries -- Australia, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mexico, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States (US) -- found that respondents overwhelmingly reported that a cybersecurity skills shortage does exist in their organizations (82%).

What’s disconcerting about this study, says Candace Worley, vice president and general manager for enterprise endpoint security at Intel, is that respondents reported that “the lack of enough cybersecurity staff is contributing to security risk in their organization.” This should be a concern for all of us, she warns.

Seventy-one percent of respondents said that this shortage in cybersecurity skills does direct and measurable damage: 25% lost proprietary data through cyberattacks, 33% say they are a target for hackers because of weak cybersecurity defenses, and 22% say they’ve suffered reputation damage due to the workforce shortage.

“This is putting pressure on government and organizations and companies that have security practices and vendors in this field to come together and address this as a community,” she says. In the interim, organizations should asses their risk tolerance and automate and outsource what they can to take the pressure off in-house teams, she says.

Security risks arise as enterprises begin to deploy Internet of Things devices for the business and as employees bring those devices onto the corporate network.