Cost of a Cyber Breach

June eZine 2016

Greetings,

Curious about virtual reality and its potential? Mike Meyer, CIO at Honolulu Community College and former Internet General Manager at Oceanic Time Warner Cable, shares his article written for the Honolulu Star Advertiser. Did you know VR has been around since the early 1980's with Jaron Lanier. Ever curious, PCATT is looking into the possibilities of VR.

All the best,

Beryl Morimoto

Program Manager

Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends Report


	Photo Credit: Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers

About this time of year, Mary Meeker presents a report about technology trends which, as you know, has become a standard for industry observers. In case the 213 slides were too much to digest, The Washington Post highlighted what they considered as the 15 most important slides.

Partnering to shape the future-IT's new imperative

McKinsey & Company , an esteemed worldwide management consulting firm, shared results of their newest Global Survey on business technology . Companies that treated the IT group as a business partner were more successful. Respondents describe partnership benefits as effective in "implementing bottom-up innovation and at creating a healthy IT culture". The last two bullet items in this article help frame ways to implement a partnership model for IT.

Six New Cybersecurity Certs that Address Hotly Demanded Skills

As you'll see in the next article, five of the top ten certifications from Certification Magazine's salary survey focus on cybersecurity. GoCertify lists 6 relatively new cybersecurity certifications that are in demand:

CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP)
Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
Global Industrial Cybersecurity Professional (GICSP)
Certified Chief Information Security Officer (CCISO)
Payment Card Industry Professional (PCIP)

If you're planning to get a security or other ICT certification, PCATT has a Pearson VUE Test Center on all islands for your convenience.

Certification Magazine's IT Salary Survey

11,753 certified IT professionals responded to a salary survey at the end of 2015 and these are the results . Certifications are arranged by highest US salary. The top 75 out of over 800 certifications are on this list created by Certification Magazine. At the top of the list:

PMI Program Management Professional $147,120
Open Group TOGAF 9 $144,250
(ISC)2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) $243,210
EC-Council Certified Chief Information Security Officer (CCISO) $143,050
(ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Architecture $141,230

Tips from Kevin Mitnick

If you don't know Kevin Mitnick you can read about him in his bio . Once on the FBI's Most Wanted list for hacking, he has served his prison time and is now CEO of his own consulting firm. He offers practical security advice with an emphasis on social engineering because he knows that's how hackers operate. Given his knowledge and experience, you might expect him to be using a burner phone or a Blackphone 2 or a Turing phone, but he uses an iPhone with a long alphanumeric passcode.

Cost of a Cyber Breach

IBM contracted the Ponemon Institute, a cybersecurity research firm, to survey companies worldwide that experienced a data breach. The average cost per breach is listed at $4 million. The takeaway: " Having an incident response team in place lowers the cost per stolen record by $16 a pop-more than any other single defensive measure, according to the study. Use of encryption ($13 saved per stolen record), employee training ($9), threat sharing ($9), and appointing a chief information security officer ($7) also help lessen the costs per stolen record." Read more.

GenCyber Hawaii

PCATT with University of Hawaii system partners hosted the second annual GenCyber Hawaii event to introduce middle and high school students and teachers to the basics of cybersecurity. The GenCyber camps sought to help students and teachers understand safe online behavior, increase diversity and interest in cybersecurity related careers, and improve the inclusion of cybersecurity content in secondary schools.

We are grateful for the support we received from the National Security Agency, National Science Foundation, and Public Schools of Hawaii Foundation as well as from many volunteers from local companies and agencies.

Staying Sharp

Harvard Medical School recently published ways to keep your mind sharp. At the top of their list: keep learning. We hope you will take advantage of the many learning opportunities we have through our PCATT consortium of University of Hawaii community colleges located on all islands. (Note: There's a question about whether beer causes a beer belly at the end of the article in case you're interested.)

And finally...

Tap-Kick-Click: Foot Interaction for a Standing Desk

This is so ridiculous we had to share it, but maybe you'll like the idea. You've heard of the standing desk. This idea from researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada takes that concept further to what they call their Tap-Kick-Click project. We won't ask you to tap or kick but you can click here to read about it.