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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Related: Atrium Health breach highlights third-party risks. And this continues to include enterprises that have poured a king’s ransom into hardening their first-party security posture. Third-party cyber risks are likely to persist at the current scale for a while longer. Uphill battle.

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Cash versus digital payments: How to achieve financial inclusion

IBM Big Data Hub

AliPay also introduced its “Smile to Pay” facial recognition application on mobile devices in 2017, which allows customers to make purchases by posing in front of point-of-sale machines. Mastercard also announced its pilot of biometric recognition just under two years ago. Council recently banned cashless businesses.

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Why the cyber security skills gap is so damaging

IT Governance

The cyber security skills gap has been growing for years, and the problem is particularly bad in the UK. In many cases, employees’ time and resources are spread so thinly that the quality of the work suffers. The increased demand for cyber security staff has given those with the right skills considerable leverage over employers.

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NHS is still assessing the cost of WannaCry one year later

Security Affairs

The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care provided an update on the efforts to secure the NHS IT infrastructure, with a focus on WannaCry overall costs. The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care provided an update on the spent to secure the IT infrastructure in a report titled “ Securing cyber resilience in.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Sophie Sayer on the IT Governance Partner Programme

IT Governance

The benefits of partnering with us, and our partner-exclusive event IT Governance launched its partner programme in 2017, which now includes more than 400 organisations. In more recent months, we launched the channel partner programme in Europe and America, with training and security testing proving especially popular.

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Top Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) Vendors

eSecurity Planet

Breach and attack simulation (BAS) is a relatively new IT security technology that can automatically spot vulnerabilities in an organization’s cyber defenses, akin to continuous, automated penetration testing. As the industry develops, several vendors refer to advanced BAS solutions as security validation. Picus Security.

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