Quote:....Here at ESET, we believe that diversity is key to the success of any great company and community. That is why we are continuing our support of women in technology with the Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship. Today - on International Women’s Day - we are excited to announce that the award amount for this year’s Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship will triple to $15,000. ESET will award three young women $5,000 each.  

ESET believes that diversity and equality will only serve to advance cybersecurity and cyber-adjacent industries. According to the 2017 (ISC)² Global Information Security Workforce Study, there will be a shortfall of 1.8 million workers in cybersecurity by 2022. And today, women hold only 11 percent of cybersecurity roles globally.
 

Apply Now: Submissions are accepted from March 15, 2019 – April 15, 2019“The ESET Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship is designed to encourage and empower women – an underrepresented segment of talent in the industry – to pursue a career in cybersecurity. It’s amazing to see how many young women are so passionate about this field and really want to do some good in the world with the technology skills that they are developing,” said Celeste Blodgett, vice president of human resources, ESET. “There is no doubt that the next scholarship winners will be future innovators and leaders in this space. If we can play a small part in helping, it makes what we do here at ESET worthwhile.”

Women bring different perspectives, viewpoints and approaches to problem-solving to the table. This diversity of perspectives is particularly critical for the future of technology, as ESET Senior Security Researcher Stephen Cobb highlighted in his recent TEDx talk (see the “white male effect” starting at 8:19), as well as for the future of our workforce, as ESET Security Researcher Lysa Myers has written about. 

Not eligible to apply to this scholarship yourself? We encourage you to share this scholarship with your friends, family and neighbors. 

REQUIREMENTS, DETAILS AND HOW TO APPLY
ESET will award three (3) young women a $5,000 scholarship to a female who is pursuing a college-level degree and aspires to have a career in cybersecurity. 

How do I qualify for the scholarship?
You must be a female enrolled in or accepted to an accredited undergraduate or graduate program in the United States. (The graduate/undergraduate program does not have to be a “cybersecurity” program; however in your application you should make clear that you aspire to have a career in the cybersecurity industry.)

You must have a minimum cumulative 3.0 GPA.
You must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident with a permanent resident ID card.

What is the deadline for submission?
Submissions are accepted from March 15, 2019 – April 15, 2019, at 11:59pm PSTWhat do I submit / How do I submit my application?
Applicants must include the following as attachments to US-scholarship@eset.com with a subject line of "Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship".....  

Quote:....“Insecurely developed apps, those that put their users’ privacy or money at risk are a growing problem. On one hand, such apps don’t qualify as malware and thus cannot be blocked by security solutions. On the other, the risk they pose may still be severe,” says Lukáš Štefanko, the ESET security researcher driving the project.

Typical examples of security risks associated with apps that are otherwise non-malicious are in app vulnerabilities or on their back-end servers, unencrypted communications between the app and its server, leaking sensitive information and data, bypassing app protection mechanisms, remote code execution or even SQL injection. 

Ultimately, insecure apps are much harder to protect, while being no less of a threat. A poll organized by ESET Researcher Lukáš Štefanko via his Twitter handle, shows that users are aware of this. Of over 3200 participants, 78% think mobile users should be more afraid of insecurely developed apps, compared to the remaining 22% who think malware is a more significant threat. 

Since insecure apps cannot be blocked by security solutions, it is up to users to protect themselves. The problem is that from the user perspective, it is hard to tell an insecure app from a secure one. No clear rules apply here because apps come in too many forms and flavors to fit into simple criteria or patterns. 

What can help in such a situation is a healthy level of suspicion based on general knowledge about how apps are developed, what their business models are and what the overall Android ecosystem looks like. 

The primary goal for the Android App Watch blog is to provide users with information and insight in order to make the right choices about their Android apps. Besides warning users about insecure apps and bad practices in the industry, the Android App Watch is also designed to help the apps’ developers. 

“Before we publish our findings, we report them to the app’s developer, along with advice on how to fix them. Then we wait for the fix and evaluate it to see if it solves the problem,” explains Lukáš Štefanko...

 

Quote:....ESET is the trusted IT security partner for the enterprise market, providing both cutting-edge technology and human expertise. ESET’s booth at RSA will be in the North Expo Hall (#5345).
 
First, ESET’s cybersecurity experts will be onsite to demonstrate the company’s recently-released portfolio of security solutions for the enterprise. This suite includes ESET Security Management Center, an enterprise-grade management console that provides visibility and reporting across all operating systems, ESET Enterprise Inspector, an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solution with features and granularity that surpass anything on the market, and ESET Dynamic Threat Defense, which provides another layer of security by utilizing a cloud-based sandboxing technology to detect new, never-before seen types of threats.
  
ESET Senior Malware Researcher Róbert Lipovský and ESET Senior Software Engineer Juraj Jánošík will present “Protecting You Better with Advanced Malware Research” in Moscone South Esplanade 154 on Thursday, March 7, from 2:50-3:40pm PT. This talk will focus on how ESET’s advanced malware research leads to better endpoint security. Both speakers will discuss the company’s discovery of the first malware-induced blackouts, the abuse of some ISPs for espionage, and details on various vulnerabilities in popular IoT devices. They will then discuss how these discoveries directly translate into improving ESET’s protection technologies.....

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