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The Business Cost of Phishing report reveals organizations with 25 IT and security professionals are spending more than $1 million per year to handle phishing.

Additional regulatory approvals allow DruvStar to expand its premium cybersecurity services offering to Ohio, Maryland, and Louisiana gaming markets.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Cyber Innovation Center (CIC) in Louisiana, along with Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, have announced the expansion of Cyber.org ’s new virtual lab environment, Cyber.org Range , available to teach cybersecurity skills to all K–12 students nationwide free of cost through a Cybersecurity Education and Training Assistance Program (CETAP) grant. A cyber Range is a cloud-based safe and controlled virtual environment with access to the internet, but secure from private networks, to run virtual machines in a web browser. Students practice cybersecurity concepts, explore back-end IT systems in current use, and run labs to get hands-on practice with real tools to defend against cyber attacks. Cyber.org’s Cybersecurity year-long course includes 150 topics, including cyber law and policy, Linux, networking technology basics, risk assessment, cryptography, and a variety of other tools. Upon completion, students can take the CompTIA Security+ certification exam . This can help prepare them for intermediate-level jobs in the cybersecurity field. For more on this article visit Virtual Lab Environment Cyber.org Range Launched to Make K–12 Cybersecurity Skills Training Available Nationally -- THE Journal

Good news for the Port of South Louisiana: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded the Port nearly $700,000 to upgrade its cybersecurity framework in the face of the ever-evolving threat landscape. Together with the Port’s 25% funding match, this means that nearly a million dollars will be earmarked for new, updated, and ongoing technologies, processes, testing, and advanced training aimed at protecting against threats from cyber terrorists and other bad actors. The need for such an investment in one of the United States’ largest ports, by tonnage, is underscored by the results of a recent public audit that revealed the Port lost nearly $420 million as a result of a 2021 cyber attack. Cybersecurity grant is opportunity for Port of South Louisiana | New Orleans CityBusiness