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National challenge will develop schoolgirls’
cybersecurity skills
and mentor. The pupils will be put
through a series of challenges to
test their cybersecurity skills against
young women from all over the UK,
with the top 10 teams progressing to
a national final in London in March.
The victorious contestants will take
home individual prizes and their
school will receive IT equipment to
the value of £1,000.
eenage girls from across
the UK are being invited to
pit their tech skills against
one another in a GCHQ competition
to find the best and brightest
candidates to protect the nation from
future cyberattacks. important step to knock down barriers
preventing women from joining the fight
against online crime. Only 10% of the
global cyber workforce are female,
meaning millions of British women may
be missing out on a career they could
excel in. The UK government says it is fully
committed to defending against
cyberthreats and address the
cyberskills gap to develop and
grow talent. A five-year National
Cyber Security Strategy (NCSS)
was announced in November
2016, supported by £1.9 billion of
transformational investment.
The CyberFirst Girls Competition,
set up by GCHQ’s new National
Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), is an Girls aged 13 to 15 can enter the
competition in teams of four, plus a
teacher who will act as a guardian Visit www.ncsc.gov.uk/events/
cyberfirst-girls-competition for more
information.
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GARTNER NAMES CENTRIFY A ‘LEADER’
IN PRIVILEGED ACCESS MANAGEMENT
entrify, a leading provider
of cloud-ready zero trust
privilege to secure modern
enterprises, has announced that it has
been positioned by Gartner, in the
‘Leaders’ quadrant of the 2018 Gartner
Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access
Management. The report evaluated 14
vendors based on completeness of
vision and ability to execute.
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“We are delighted to be acknowledged
as a Leader in Gartner’s first Magic
Quadrant for Privileged Access
Management,” said Tim Steinkopf,
President at Centrify.
“We believe our position in the Leaders’
quadrant is due to our best-in-class
Active Directory bridging for Unix/
Linux systems, a truly cloud-architected
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solution that can be deployed on-
premises or SaaS and our Machine
Learning-based analytics services.
“Furthermore, we think our
integration with common DevOps
tools and integrated multi-factor
authentication round out what we
believe is the most complete offering
for the privileged access challenges
facing enterprises today.”
Gartner named privileged account
management as one of the Top 10
Security Projects for 2018.
Download a complimentary copy of the
report from Centrify to learn more about
Gartner’s evaluations: www.centrify.com/
resources/2018-gartner-magic-quadrant-
for-privileged-access-management/. u
Tim Steinkopf, President at Centrify
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