Taking Care with Telehealth: Health Care. Cyber Care. Duty of Care.
Social distancing and stay-at-home orders are designed to protect us from the spread of COVID-19, but what about patients that still require check-ups, post-hospitalization follow-ups, continued monitoring due to other conditions – Telehealth is a convenient solution. (more…)
HALOCK Supports Women’s Career Growth at WiCyS
Viviana Wesley, Managing Consultant at HALOCK, is used to being one of few women specializing in cyber security. But last week, for a change, she wasn’t alone. At the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Conference in Chicago, she was one of nearly a thousand participants from industry, academia, and areas of research who gathered for the organization’s fifth annual conference, designed (more…)
HALOCK’s Eve Adams Named One of Business Insider’s 100 Most Influential Tech Women on Twitter
Eve Adams (@HackerHuntress), Senior Talent Acquisition Expert, was recently named one of Business Insider’s 100 Most Influential Tech Women on Twitter. (more…)
The Information Security Agent
If you work in the information security industry go ahead and give yourself a pat on the back. In 2012 information security professionals enjoyed one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. In my line of work I often come across IT and (more…)
2014 Information Security Hiring Trends: Defense!
Yes, it’s another information security predictions article – security hiring trends. No, I won’t be discussing APT, China, or anything involving our favorite prefix, “cyber.” Instead, here’s a brief glimpse at what we infosec recruiters are seeing in terms of enterprise demands for cyber security roles. While all infosec positions, from firewall jockey to CISO, remain (more…)
FUD in Information Security Employment
Security people sure have it good. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics tells us that in 2012, self-described information security professionals experienced 0.9% unemployment – a sliver of the roughly 8% national average. The Bureau projects 22% job growth in InfoSec by 2020. Granted, even the BLS admits their numbers aren’t to be taken as gospel, but that’s only because they couldn’t find enough security professionals (more…)
4 Tips for Hiring the Best Information Security Talent
“How can we recruit and interview candidates, all of which state they are interested on the phone, yet astonishingly, call to cancel the face-to-face interview before it takes place? One by one, they explain that they have accepted another position. What is it with these information security people?! I have never seen anything like it.” (more…)
