As background, Cyber Monday was coined in 2005 by e-commerce industry group Shop.org while I was its executive director.
Written with a first-person perspective, Cyber Rights offers a background in the legal issues and history pertaining to free speech on the Internet.
The company, co-founded by Guy Aharonovsky, whose background is in cyber security, hopes to have its first application for consumers out in six months.
Out of those fifty, 33 had knowledge and background in security, cyber-security or antiterrorism.
Sqrrl was co-founded in 2012 by former US government security officials with a background at the NSA and White House cyber security.
There are so many entrepreneurs who simply don't have enough of a tech background to really understand cyber security, what it is, what it entails and why it is so risky.
According to the contract between US Central Command (Centcom) and California company Ntrepid, the software would let each user control 10 personas, each "replete with background, history, supporting details, and cyber presences that are technically, culturally and geographically consistent".
Next year, as part of a £1.9bn national cyber-security programme, the government will push hopefuls with no background in technology through an intensive 10-week cyber-security bootcamp.
4 See for example the U.S. House of Representatives Report 107-355 Part 1: Cyber Security Research and Development Act, §II (Background and Need for Legislation).
