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Need for Speed Drives Security-as-a-Service

CIO Business Intelligence

DDoS attacks that target networks, applications, and APIs can seemingly come out of nowhere. In fact, 42% of SECaaS adopters in F5’s 2023 State of Application Strategy survey cited speed as the main driver. In fact, 75% of survey respondents say they are adopting or planning to adopt a secure software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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Safeguarding your digital ecosystem: effective strategies to detect and mitigate API abuse

CIO Business Intelligence

In today’s interconnected digital landscape, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are instrumental in ensuring seamless communication between software systems. WAAPs inspect incoming API requests, filtering out potentially harmful traffic based on predefined security rules to identify applications attacks (e.g.

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The 10 most in-demand tech jobs for 2023 — and how to hire for them

CIO Business Intelligence

But 86% of technology managers also said that it’s challenging to find skilled professionals in software and applications development, technology process automation, and cloud architecture and operations. Companies will have to be more competitive than ever to land the right talent in these high-demand areas.

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If You’re Only Doing WAF, You’re Doing API Security Wrong

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Some organizations have begun using Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) to protect their APIs, but this isn’t a true solution to API security. An application programming interface (API) allows various computer programs to work together by sharing data. What do APIs do? And the OWASP API Top 10?

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

This may become its own separate project, but it’s important during cloud strategy development to define what information should be collected about each workload, says Smith. Instead, his team employed DevOps practices to rearchitect applications to take advantage of native cloud capabilities. Do we have the right talent in place?

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What Executives Should Know About Shift-Left Security

CIO Business Intelligence

By Zachary Malone, SE Academy Manager at Palo Alto Networks The term “shift left” is a reference to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) that describes the phases of the process developers follow to create an application. Why is shift-left security important in cybersecurity? This creates risks.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO Business Intelligence

Meanwhile, the CTO focuses on technology research and development efforts, often working closely with the CIO to develop a strong IT strategy. The vice president of IT is responsible for overseeing specific aspects of the organization’s IT operations, whether it’s infrastructure, security, data management, or applications.