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Nicholas Bradley Davis, Bowen & Friedel Inc. has welcomed five new employees to its offices in Milford and Salisbury, Md. To keep up with the growing demands of the civil, survey and municipal departments, DBF added two new survey field technicians, two new hires in the civil engineering department and one new hire in the municipal department. "With the COVID-19 pandemic, we expected to see a slowdown of work, but we've actually encountered an influx of projects and increased workload. We have been really lucky that our work has continued to grow in this environment, and this group of new tal...

Here, women in tech attend a hacker career fair. (Gunjan Sondhi/CC BY-SA 4.0) Despite the complexity of skills required to properly address information security, candidates are rarely put to the test before hiring – opening companies up to a range of risks, from simple workforce churn to breaches. The problem, say community recruiters and trainers, is not simple failure to bother: effective evaluation of cyber candidates often takes a mix of technology and expertise that few employers have at their disposal, not to mention a skills gap already makes qualified candidates difficult to find...