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n online programme designed
to inspire teenagers to think
about a career in cybersecurity
will continue for a second year after a
successful pilot across England.
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More than 23,000 young people aged
between 14 and 18 have already taken
part in the Cyber Discovery Programme,
which uses interactive games to teach
teenagers about cybersecurity in an
accessible and fun way.
Those who perform at the highest levels,
will also have the opportunity to attend a
special summer camp to hone their skills
and meet industry leaders.
The scheme sits within Cyber First,
the government’s cybersecurity skills
programme, which is part of the £1.9
billion investment through the National
Cyber Security Strategy to transform the
UK’s cybersecurity and ensure it builds
skills for the workforce of the future.
The £20 million Cyber Discovery
programme teaches students about
subjects including digital forensics,
defending against web attacks and
cryptography. It is being delivered by
IT security training company the SANS
Institute. The programme is also a
key part of the government’s modern
industrial strategy – a long-term plan to
ensure that businesses have the skilled
workers they need in Britain.
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QUALYS ACQUIRES CONTAINER-NATIVE
SECURITY COMPANY LAYERED INSIGHT
ualys, a pioneer and
leading provider of
cloud-based security
and compliance solutions, has
announced it has acquired Layered
Insight, a global leader in container-
native application protection.
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By acquiring Layered Insight,
Qualys extends its current
capabilities to include deep
visibility and runtime application
protection for containerised and
serverless workloads.
“This acquisition brings Qualys to
the forefront of container security,”
said Philippe Courtot, Chairman
and CEO, Qualys. “With a highly
scalable architecture, Layered Insight
allows us to add runtime capabilities
and automated enforcement to our
current Container Security solution.”
Layered Insight’s technology will help
Qualys customers gain:
• Deeper visibility into containers by
mapping runtime behaviour to gain a
multi-dimensional (network, storage
and system) and comprehensive
understanding of applications running
in a containerised environment.
• The ability to detect and prevent
security breaches during runtime.
Users can set alerts for detected
anomalies or enact auto-generated
behaviour policies to enforce control
on the containers.
• Extended visibility, compliance
and protection for serverless
Container-as-a-Service (CaaS)
deployments, such as AWS Fargate
and Azure Container Instances,
by instrumenting the visibility and
protection within application images
and language runtimes.
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