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Governance and Fighting the Curse of Complexity

CIO Business Intelligence

The road other is paved with disciplined IT and business governance. Shadow IT introduces systems and applications that are often outside of an enterprise’s catalog of IT tools. Governance and the Process Side of Simplification So, if integrative tools are only part of the answer, what else can IT and security leaders do?

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Firemon: Providing proactive security intelligence and governance over your IT

CTOvision

With this post we are initiating coverage of Firemon, provider of proactive security intelligence and governance capabilities. Enterprises use FireMon to perform key management tasks like Firewall rules cleanup, firewall policy changes, reducing complexity of firewall rulesets and ensuring compliance.

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Digital Risk Management Leader RiskIQ Raises New Funding To Expand Platform Ecosystem, Sales and Digital Risk Applications

CTOvision

New Capital Infusion to Expand Platform Ecosystem, Sales and Digital Risk Applications. This financing will enable the company to expand its ecosystem, global sales, and platform applications within the disruptive Digital Risk Management market. Threats outside the firewall are vast and dynamic. Million in Series C Funding.

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The Perfect and Continuous Storm: Understanding the Cyber Implications of the Regulatory Governance For Security Advisors

CTOvision

Founder and Chief Security Strategist at eSentire Eldon Sprickerhoff recently penned a blog post titled " The Perfect Storm: Understanding the Implications of the Regulatory Governance Spotlight." The rules being crafted for this environment are applicable across multiple domains and can generate best practices worth applying elsewhere.

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Government Agencies Discover New Chinese Malware Strain

SecureWorld News

And it's a malware strain used specifically by the Chinese government. Chinese government actors are using malware variants in conjunction with proxy servers to maintain a presence on victim networks and to further network exploitation. Restrict users' ability (permissions) to install and run unwanted software applications.

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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. SQLi and RCE).

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Zero Trust

Phil Windley

Past practices included techniques like virtual private networks (VPNs) that tried to emulate the idea of an intranet where trusted computers and people were protected from hackers by a firewall that "kept the bad stuff out." Authorization platforms like Cedar are available to control access to your infrastructure and applications.