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Cybersecurity Awareness Resources
We’re passionate about forging a more secure North Carolina, and part of that means helping everyone stay cyber secure. Thankfully, we’re not alone in that—we’ve compiled a brief list of resources produced by others in the cybersecurity industry that not only are safe...
Cybersecurity Awareness Resources
We’re passionate about forging a more secure North Carolina, and part of that means helping everyone stay cyber secure. Thankfully, we’re not alone in that—we’ve compiled a brief list of resources produced by others in the cybersecurity industry that not only are safe...

Critical Thinking in Crisis: An Interview with our Cyber Ethics Instructors
We had the opportunity to interview both Dr. Mark Wells and Dr. James Tippey on the importance of critical thinking in cybersecurity. Dr. Wells has a background in ethics and philosophy while Dr. Tippey has a background in both cybersecurity and religion; together,...
Repetition Does Not Equal Discipline
With close to 20 years of experience, cybersecurity professional Ed Carroll shares the important difference between repetition and discipline in his field in the following article. Currently, Ed works full-time as a Senior Director for the Carolina Cyber Center. "The...
“Don’t Push the Button”: An Interview with Ed Skoudis on Curiosity and Cybersecurity
We had the privilege of interviewing Ed Skoudis on his journey into cybersecurity, and the importance of curiosity as a cybersecurity professional. Ed is a recognized expert in penetration testing and incident response. With over twenty years of teaching experience...
Curiosity Doesn’t Kill the Cat: My Journey in Cybersecurity
We asked Elise Marchant, Cybersecurity & Curriculum Development Analyst at the Carolina Cyber Center, about the importance of curiosity in cybersecurity and her own journey to get where she is today. Here's what she told us: In high school, every subject I took...
201: The Cyber Industry Has It Wrong…
The cybersecurity industry needs an overhaul. Cybersecurity itself is often avoided and misunderstood, because, to put it frankly, we pretend that cybersecurity is a technological problem instead of a people problem. We need to see and understand people in order to...
103: The Five Minute Cyberattack and Corporate Blind Spots
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, Amber Long is quitting her job. She weathered the tension of continued company cutbacks and survived months of remote-work isolation. Normalcy was at first distant, then seemingly closer as her company finally became...

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