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Kaspersky develops cybercapacity training programme to bolster IT resilience

29th May 2020

By: Schalk Burger

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

     

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Cybersecurity multinational Kaspersky announced on May 19 that, as part of the Global Transparency Initiative, it had developed a cybersecurity skills development programme.

The Cyber Capacity Building Programme will be available during the latter part of the year, says Kaspersky public affairs head Oleg Abdurashitov.

The company has also made its Transparency Centre services, which provide access to information about internal security practices and technologies, available virtually.

“With digitisation rapidly increasing, robust information technology (IT) infrastructure is vital for the smooth integration and running of various software and hardware platforms, as well as the efficiency of operations,” Abdurashitov says.

Kaspersky has enabled remote access to the services of its Transparency Centres in the form of a ‘blue-piste’ assessment option, which allows users to become acquainted with the company’s engineering practices and data-protection standards.

With this service, Kaspersky’s trusted partners will be able to gain an overview of its security and transparency best practices, as well as its products and services. Kaspersky’s security experts are also ready to answer any questions regarding the company’s data-processing practices and the functioning of its solutions, as well as a live demonstration of a source-code review with the organisation, explains Abdurashitov.

“Organisations’ IT infrastructure can be subject to various cybersecurity-related risks, making cyberresilience crucial. As part of global supply chains and/or critical infrastructure networks, different components of the IT infrastructure can be compromised, causing harm to public security, as well as economic and social wellbeing.

“Fortunately, organisations can evaluate and ensure the security and integrity of these elements. The Cyber Capacity Building Programme will provide product-security evaluation training to businesses, government organisations and academic institutions that need IT infrastructure security assessment skills,” he says.

“Since opening our Transparency Centres, we have developed a wide practice of product-security evaluation, and we see that just communicating a company’s readiness to provide its source code for a review is not enough; it requires a certain level of specific IT security knowledge from our partners to carry out an assessment and to have a full experience of what is being offered within the transparency policy.

“Our Cyber Capacity Building Programme will allow businesses and government organisations, as well as academic institutions, to develop skills for proper security assessments of the products they use and thus help enhance cyberresilience of their own networks,” he says.

The dedicated product-security evaluation training will be available in online and offline formats and is designed to help companies, government organisations and academia develop practical tools and knowledge for security assessments and thereby ensure the security and integrity of third-party applications that are integrated into their IT infrastructures and networks.

Through the programme, organisations will be able to identify cybersecurity risks, as well as manage and mitigate them, he adds.

“The dedicated product-security evaluation training programme requires basic knowledge of the software development life cycle, programming and information security. The training will provide organisations with an introduction to product security evaluation and threat modelling, as well as source-code review and vulnerability management.

“Taking part in the programme pilot will be free of charge and will be launched first for government organisations and academia in the third quarter of 2020. The training will be available for business organisations later this year,” concludes Abdurashitov.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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