Cybrary Events & Webinars
Hear from industry experts and stay up-to-date on the latest research, training, and product developments at Cybrary, through our webinars and live online events. Get practical insights into growing and optimizing your skills and team members. Check out the calendar for upcoming FREE sessions.
CTIG Research
Patch It with CTIG - Airline Wi-Fi & A Hacker's Toolkit
Have you tried to access Wi-Fi on a plane? Convenient, right? After hearing what Ryan Englich and David Maynor have to say about unsecured connections - you might think twice before connecting. Plus, see what awesome gadgets David has in his hacker toolkit.
Team Management
How to Build a Future-Proof Cybersecurity Skills Development Program
Cybersecurity teams need to continuously develop and sharpen their skills to protect critical assets as organizations seek ways to compete amid economic headwinds. A future-proof skills development program is the key to implementing secure new processes and technologies that support growth.
Watch this on-demand webinar recording featuring Cybrary CEO Kevin Hanes sharing a unique perspective from his experience leading a top MSSP. The webinar covers how to build a high-performance, leading-edge cybersecurity team to future-proof your business, exploring the full skills development lifecycle:
Getting buy-in and measuring ROI
Developing curriculum
Choosing the right training platform
Ensuring adoption and engagement
Monitoring for continuous improvement
How to Dispel Cybersecurity Training Myths: Make the Case for Training with Research-Backed Insights
Today’s evolving threat landscape has left cybersecurity leaders scrambling to prepare staff to protect their organization. Training programs can improve readiness, yet common myths that training increases employee turnover or fails to produce measurable benefits cast doubt on their value. These concerns make many cybersecurity leaders hesitant to implement formalized training platforms.
A new survey report from Omdia, a leading cybersecurity research firm, dispels these myths. Join a live webinar featuring Cybrary CEO Kevin Hanes on Friday 11/18 at 1pm ET to review key insights from Omdia’s research and help make the case for training in your organization. The webinar will cover:
How ongoing training actually enhances cybersecurity employee retention,
How cybersecurity leaders think about the relationships between training, cybersecurity insurance, and incident response,
How training increases efficiency, effectiveness, and overall security posture,
Why it’s important to combine training with internal career paths and advancement opportunities,
And much more!
Better Hiring Practices
Join our Chief Impact Officer, Chloé Messdaghi, and the Founder & CEO of CyberSN, Deidre Diamond, as they discuss best practices and tips when it comes to recruiting on security teams. This session dives into security team wellness, hiring strategies, job postings, and will open to Q&A from the attendees.
You'll leave this session knowing:
How to write a better job description
How to improve your DE&I in hiring
How to find the best candidates for your openings
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Preparation for OT Incident Response
While many industrial firms have a plan in place for how to deal with an incident in their enterprise network, industrial networks are a discrete space with different challenges. Aside from simply requiring a separate incident response plan document, several preparatory steps will greatly slow down response if not performed. Join Lesley Carhart in exploring these issues and their impact on response.
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Improving Security Teams: Part 3 - Upskilling
From burnout to mitigating vulnerabilities, security teams are struggling and managers are overwhelmed. Additionally, having to deal with security apathy across the organization keeps a security team awake at all hours. Improving the situation is not an easy task, but it is possible.
In part three of this series, Head of Impact, Chloé Messdaghi, explores how to improve security team retention, reduce burnout, and have less security related incidents and breaches – have skill development opportunities, and invest in your people!
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Improving Security Teams: Part 2 - Gamification
From burnout to mitigating vulnerabilities, security teams are struggling and managers are overwhelmed. Additionally, having to deal with security apathy across the organization keeps a security team awake at all hours. Improving the situation is not an easy task, but it is possible.
In part two of this series, Head of Impact, Chloé Messdaghi, will explore how to improve security team training and skill development by reviewing a critical element to knowledge retention: Gamification.
Improving Security Teams: Part 1 - Burnout
From burnout to mitigating vulnerabilities, security teams are struggling and managers are overwhelmed. Additionally, having to deal with security apathy across the organization keeps a security team awake at all hours. Improving the situation is not an easy task, but it is possible.
In this series, Chief Impact Officer, Chloé Messdaghi, will explore how to improve security team wellness, starting with how to address the main problem facing the workforce today: Burnout.
View this session on-demand with a downloadable presentation and resources.
Reduce Risk: How to Combat Threats
Cybersecurity threats and the technologies and tactics used to mitigate their risk to your organization are constantly evolving. As a result, leaders face many challenges when upskilling their teams to stay ahead.
Join Kevin Hanes, CEO of Cybrary, and Jeff Schilling, Global CISO of Teleperformance, in a fireside chat where they'll cover:
What to consider when building a cybersecurity team from the ground up
The role industry frameworks play in implementing a successful cybersecurity training program
Predictions for the future of cybersecurity skill development
And much more!
View this session on-demand with a downloadable presentation, audio transcript, and more.
Career & Skills Development
How to Break Into Cybersecurity
Even with job demand higher than ever, it’s incredibly difficult to land a job in cybersecurity. Whether you’re a beginner or have some IT experience, there isn’t a clear path to build the skills needed for your first cybersecurity job. Most resources are incomplete, inaccurate, or outdated. If they do cover key concepts well, they rarely help build practical skills you actually need to get hired.
This on-demand webinar recording offers practical tips to help you break into the industry. Will Carlson, our Senior Director of Content, shares insights and best practices to build the skills needed to get hired and advance your career.
View the webinar to learn:
Foundational cybersecurity concepts and job functions
Common entry-level cybersecurity career paths
Key certifications to pursue (and how to make sure you pass the exam)
Ways to gain hands-on experience that set you apart in interviews
Cybrary Free Access Special Announcement
Introducing Cybrary Free Access, a new offering that unlocks over 500 hours of premium training content for Cybrary learners. It is not news to anyone that we are experiencing a severe cybersecurity skills shortage. Simply put, this skills shortage is caused by a lack of access to quality training that provides current and prospective cybersecurity professionals with guidance and practical skills. The current systems aimed at getting people into the cybersecurity field are broken, and we are pledging to do something about it.
In this live Q&A with Cybrary CEO Kevin Hanes and Senior Director of Content Will Carlson, we will discuss the reason behind this decision and dive into what training is now free and accessible to all.
Live Q&A with Cybrary Instructor Kelly Handerhan
If you have big cybersecurity career goals for 2023, there is no better way to kick off your year than with a live Q&A with Cybrary instructor Kelly Handerhan! Whether you are just embarking on your journey in the cybersecurity industry or gearing up for your CISSP, Kelly offers invaluable insights during this Q&A event.
SOC Playbook Series Part 2: Practicing Data-Driven Analysis with Python
Our interactive 3-part event will dive into Crowley’s industry-famous annual SANS security operations center (SOC) survey through a unique lens and provide Cybrary users with a hands-on learning experience.
This experience will teach users how to set up their own technical environment and leverage the data collected from the SOC survey to gain insights into their own SOC and optimize their environment through data-driven analysis.
Sessions two and three will be interactive and hands-on, as you work through the dataset analysis together.
In session two, Chris will cover: Environment set up review with Python, Jupyter, Pandas, and other elements. Data organization: tidy labelling and familiarity. Exploring the data: concessions and graphs en masse.
Cybersecurity Role Dive: CISO
Join us monthly for our Role Dive series! Each month we will examine a particular role on a security team, and uncover what’s needed to be successful in such a role and how to thrive in that position. This month we chatted with Malcolm Harkins, Chief Security and Trust Officer at Epiphany Systems to understand what it's like to be a CISO, understand the expectations day-to-day, and how to plan your career journey to achieve that role.
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Build a Career in Cybersecurity in 3 Months
There’s never been a better time to join cybersecurity than now, but there is so much to learn! What background and qualifications do you need to make the jump into cybersecurity? What skills and certifications should you pursue? And how do you gain experience?
These are the questions Cybrary can answer for you with help from our Chief Impact Officer, Chloé Messdaghi, and special guest Sr. Director of Threat Intelligence, David Maynor. In this session, you’ll get a rundown of everything you need to know to jumpstart your career in Cybersecurity.
Get key insights from Chloe and Dave they wished they had when getting started in cybersecurity.
Topics covered in this webinar:
What career paths best suit your personality
Who’s hiring: The top 5 industries in need of cybersecurity professionals
Where to start training to gain experience
How to overcome obstacles in the transition process
How to measure and track successes
… and more!
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SOC Playbook Pt 1: Survey Overview and Environment Setup
Part 1 of the SOC Playbook series serves as an introduction to parts 2 and 3, where you’ll get interactive and hands-on with our expert Chris Crowley to work through dataset analysis together.
In this session, Chris covers:
The history of the SOC survey
Overview of the 2022 data set
Environment set up instructions where we discuss how we will use tools such as Python, Jupyter, Pandas, and more.
** We recommend all attendees have basic scripting skills and experience with Python.
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Career Advice - Public Speaking
Join Cybrary's Chief Impact Officer, Chloé Messdaghi, and Sr. Information Security Forensic Analyst, Cathy Ullman, as they share from experience their advice on public speaking; best practices, what to avoid, and tips to make you a more effective communicator.
You'll leave this session knowing:
How to reduce nerves before speaking
Speaking takes practice (a lot of it!)
How to own the stage and room when communicating
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Certifications
Overview of Top CompTIA Certifications - Live AMA With Bill Price
Is earning a CompTIA certification on your list of goals for 2023? Join Cybrary instructor Bill Price for a live event where he will break down what you need to know about some of the top CompTIA certifications, such as the A+, Net+, Sec+, and CySA+. In this session, you will learn more about these popular industry-recognized certifications and will walk away with a better understanding of which one might be the best fit for your career goals. We’ll dive into some of Bill’s tips on how to set yourself up for success and explore the hands-on resources that are available to you on your certification journey with Cybrary.
News & Trends
2022 Year in Review Happy Hour
Join David Maynor and Ryan English from the Cybrary Threat Intelligence Group (CTIG) as they dive into their top moments of 2022. From news breaking headlines, major cybersecurity incidents, and the return of in-person conferences, David and Ryan spend the hour reminiscing on some of the most impactful moments of 2022.