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Tech Moves: Nordstrom names chief information security officer; Meta research scientist joins AI2

GeekWire

Nordstrom Photo) — Nicole Ford joined Nordstrom as chief information security officer. Ford previously served as vice president and CISO at Rockwell Automation, with past experience leading security transformation initiatives and developing cybersecurity programs. The Seattle biotech company went public in 2021.

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7 technologies that CIOs can’t ignore in 2021

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

But, I believe they’ll play a large role in 2021. Here are 7 technologies that CIOs should focus on in 2021. One way to prepare: Secure portals. A portal lets employees access all their necessary information, securely via a web application. These aren’t necessarily new technologies. Cloud storage and backup.

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2020 Was a Privacy Wake-up Call: Don't Go Back to Sleep in 2021!

SecureWorld News

It also exposed some huge security and privacy vulnerabilities, which many cybercrooks have exploited thousands of times throughout 2020 for remote workers. In the past 5-10 years, privacy and information security training vendors have moved to narrowing focus to largely phishing awareness and password security.

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Moving beyond usernames and passwords

CIO Business Intelligence

Recent stats from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) show that about 92% of data breaches are cyber-attack-related, and data breaches in Q1 2022 were 14% higher than the same period in 2021. This “unknown” amount was 40% higher than the “unknown” data breach causes for all of 2021.

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What Progressive CISOs Do to Enable Innovation?

SecureWorld News

Our opening keynote, Marching on in 2021: Cyber Resiliency in Security , was filled with five stellar CISOs from different organizations and industry verticals: Mark Eggleston, VP, Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer at Health Partners Plans. Joshua Cloud, Senior Director of Information Security at NFI.

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Securing 5G for 2023 and beyond

CIO Business Intelligence

By Anand Oswal, Senior Vice President and GM at cyber security leader Palo Alto Networks While mobile technology has been around for decades, the current generation, 5G, is increasingly being recognized for the exciting new benefits it brings to enterprises, SMBs, and public sector organizations. He holds more than 50 U.S.

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Steps CIOs should take to protect customer data in Nigeria’s open banking systems

CIO Business Intelligence

According to the Africa Funding Startup 2021 report, Nigerian fintech has brought in more than half of the US$4.6 Open banking is the only way you can set systems like agency banking, mobile banking and use dollars.”. Banking, Data and Information Security Traditional banking is fading away,” he says.

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