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News alert: AppDirect poll reveals company leaders losing sleep over cyber risks, compliance

The Last Watchdog

28, 2023 – AppDirect , the world’s leading B2B subscription commerce platform, today released key findings from its IT Business Leaders 2024 Outlook Report. This demonstrates a lack of rigorous employee education and training on cybersecurity measures, making employees part of the problem rather than part of the solution. β€œIT

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: My thoughts and opinions about cyber threats β€” as discussed with OneRep

The Last Watchdog

Editor’s note: I recently had the chance to participate in a discussion about the overall state of privacy and cybersecurity with Erin Kapczynski, OneRep’s senior vice president of B2B marketing. Byron: Companies often underestimate threats, neglect basic cyber hygiene, and fail to educate employees on cybersecurity.

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Q&A: Here’s why VPNs are likely to remain a valuable DIY security tool for consumers, SMBs

The Last Watchdog

Post Covid 19, these patterns are likely to become even more engrained as digitally remote work, education, healthcare and entertainment activities predominate. In the enterprise space, VPNs are showing signs of becoming obsolete – to be superseded by cloud-centric Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) systems. Essential security tool.

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Connecticut Enacts Consumer Privacy Law

Hunton Privacy

The CTDPA exempts certain entities, including, for example, state and local government entities, nonprofits, higher education institutions, financial institutions subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (β€œGLB”), and qualifying covered entities and business associates subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (β€œHIPAA”).

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The new wave of channel marketing: What partners can expect in H2 2024Β 

OpenText Information Management

What’s more, influencers, specifically micro in nature, will continue to be excellent partners for B2B marketing and selling solutions. As HubSpot shares, working with small influencers is not only more cost-effective but correlates to long-term partnerships and offers access to loyal and engaged communities.

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Creating a holistic 360-degree β€œcitizen” view with data and AI

IBM Big Data Hub

In a 2021 report released by the Commonwealth Fund, the nation ranked last among high-income countries in access to healthcare and equity, despite spending a far greater share of its GDP on healthcare. This work resulted in real-time, data-driven decisions that identified pandemic-fueled disparities such as lack of access to vaccines.

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What the Email Security Landscape Looks Like in 2023

Security Affairs

At this point, the bad actor has access to the information they were after. The prevalence of phishing attacks has been bolstered by a number of risk factors, including: Insider threats whereby disgruntled or compromised employees leverage their position in the company to get access to certain items. QR code spoofing.