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Five Ideas to Make Cybersecurity Awareness Month More Fun

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Five Ideas to Make Cybersecurity Awareness Month More Fun

Who can believe that October and Cybersecurity Awareness Month is just over a month away? It’s likely that you and your team have been planning content and programming for your organization. If you haven’t, it’s no problem, there’s still plenty of time. As you look to

The Top 3 Cybersecurity Challenges Faced by SMBs

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The Top 3 Cybersecurity Challenges Faced by SMBs

Successful Small and Midsize Businesses (SMBs) today are investing in solid technology infrastructure, secure networks, and cybersecurity education for their employees. But the world of cybersecurity can seem so broad, foreign, and intimidating that many business owners don’t know where to start. This blog is for business owners who

What is a Capture-the-Flag or "CTF" in Cybersecurity?

What is a Capture-the-Flag or "CTF" in Cybersecurity?

MetaCTF was founded to make cybersecurity more accessible and fun. We believe in learning by doing, and gamified training has proven to be an effective way to teach new security skills. Whether you’re an infosec professional or a software developer, you don’t want to encounter your first security

5 reasons a Cybersecurity CTF can help everyone on your team

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5 reasons a Cybersecurity CTF can help everyone on your team

A Capture-the-Flag (CTF) [https://metactf.com/companies] is a cybersecurity training activity in which individuals or teams solve a variety of cybersecurity challenges to find a hidden piece of data called a "flag." For example, the participants may be asked to decrypt a message, reverse engineer a binary, or trace