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GUEST ESSAY: A roadmap for wisely tightening cybersecurity in the modern workplace

The Last Watchdog

Hackers can hurt your business or organization in many ways. If a cyber-criminal uses you as a way to get at your customers, suppliers, or employees, these vital business relationships can turn sour. Hijackers’ demands lose power when you can just recover your operations from backups. Keep remediation costs in mind.

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Shift Your Mindset from Conflict to Collaboration to Succeed in Security

Lenny Zeltser

This cybersecurity vs. everyone way of operating is counterproductive because it contributes to security professionals being seen as detractors and distractors. To succeed in today's workplace, we must operate as business enablers, not blockers. Invest in persuasion and communication for security buy-in.

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Hyperscale vs. colocation: Go big or go rent?

IBM Big Data Hub

Different voices within your business are calling attention to the awesome scalability and power of hyperscale computing, which you’ve also noticed with increasing interest. Your organization already has an ambitious agenda in mind for whatever IT infrastructure you wind up choosing.

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World Economic Forum: Organisations Must Invest in Security as ‘Catastrophic Cyber Event’ Looms

IT Governance

Organisations worldwide are investing in technologies at an unprecedented rate, with an IDC study published last year reporting that digital transformation spending is expected to hit $3.4 It’s all well and good automating processes, but you still need people who know what they’re doing to manage your requirements. trillion (£2.73

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How to foster a culture that values data privacy

Collibra

In its 2019 Annual Report , JPMorgan explicitly states that data is embedded in its strategies not only for innovating products and services, but also improving employee programs, employee privacy and community investments. All organizations strive to catch up with these mature, global market leaders. Data is an asset.

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GUEST ESSAY: The story behind how DataTribe is helping to seed ‘Cybersecurity Valley’ in Maryland

The Last Watchdog

With the largest concentration of cybersecurity expertise –– the “oil” — in the world, Maryland is fast changing from the Old Line State into “Cybersecurity Valley.” There’s oil in the state of Maryland – “cyber oil.” Two notable examples are Sourcefire, acquired by Cisco for $2.7B

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #22 [Eye on Fraud] A Closer Look at the Massive 72% Spike in Financial Phishing Attacks

KnowBe4

That's right – the financial services industry, at least according to cybersecurity vendor Armorblox's 2023 Email Security Threat Report. Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense. When you want tires, where do you go? Right – to the tire store.