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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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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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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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Artificial intelligence and a new era of human resources

IBM Big Data Hub

Artificial intelligence (AI) can help usher in a new era of human resource management, where data analytics, machine learning and automation can work together to save people time and support higher-quality outcomes. These conversations are happening as the workforce is undergoing a major change.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #07 [Scam of the Week] The Turkey-Syria Earthquake

KnowBe4

Less than 24 hours after two massive earthquakes claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people, cybercrooks are already piggybacking on the horrible humanitarian crisis. You need to alert your employees, friends and family. I suggest you send the following short alert to as many people as you can. With PhishER you can: NEW!