"The CRMA will give us a heightened awareness of our responsibility in not just evaluating operational or compliance risks, but understanding strategic risks to the business," says Denny Beran of J.C. Penney.
As the Bank of America website outage proved, "Assuming it's an attack or breach is now the default response," says ID theft expert Neal O'Farrell. So, how can organizations change that perception?
"Just as the space race motivated education and career development in the 1960s, cybersecurity can be today's driving force," says Dickie George, information assurance technical director at NSA.
As employers increasingly realize the importance of information risk management, security, audit and governance, they look to certifications to identify prospective employees.
RSA Chief Executive Art Coviello challenged a widespread belief that cybersecurity awareness could curb cyberthreats: "There's no amount of consumer education to make them smart enough to resist attacks. They're just too sophisticated."
"The same American ingenuity that put a man on the moon also created the Internet," President Obama says. "We must now harness that spirit of innovation to ... secure technologies to build a safer, more prosperous future for all Americans."
"Forensics in the cloud is not necessarily a new field, but requires a new skill set and being able to learn on the fly," says Rob Lee, curriculum lead for digital forensics at SANS Institute.
Disaster preparedness has come a long way since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but most organizations are still missing the mark, says Kevin Sullivan, former investigator with the New York State Police.
"We find a lot of security professionals saying, 'I'm just going to get another certification, or I'm going to get deeper into this technology skill,'" says researcher David Foote. "That's not going to get you very far."
"The tech fellows will be given the challenge of working with the projects and complex systems that are only available when working in federal IT," Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel says. "This is the competitive advantage that the federal government holds against the private sector."
Government officials have confirmed a potential threat by al-Qaida against the United States as the nation approaches the 10th anniversary of the Sept.11, 2001 terrorist attacks that hit the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
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