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8 tips for cultivating a winning IT culture

CIO Business Intelligence

Be authentic A winning IT culture requires an authentic IT leader , says Jay Upchurch, executive vice president and CIO at business software firm SAS. For some people, authenticity can be uncomfortable because it requires transparency and vulnerability,” he warns. Yet authenticity draws employees in and builds trust.

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DRM Protection: The Key to Securing Your eBooks

Kitaboo

The authorization can be conferred through various means, such as license keys, digital certificates, or online authentication. Controls and Permissions Various control and permission mechanisms like password protection, time-limited access, restricted viewing, restricted printing, user authentication, location control etc.,

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Smooth Cybercriminals: Google Warns of Iran-Backed APT Hackers

SecureWorld News

One method this group likes to use is to create email messages to target conference goers. One of the most notable characteristics of APT35 is their impersonation of conference officials to conduct phishing attacks. The phishing kit will also ask for second-factor authentication codes sent to devices," reads the TAG blog post.

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Top 5 Ways to Defend Against Ransomware Now

SecureWorld News

Here are a few guidelines to help better protect your organization. Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA). Using multi-factor authentication where you can to protect logins and using non-guessable passwords that are different for every website in service where you can't use MFA.

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Mapping the evolution of Germany’s blockchain ecosystem

Dataconomy

There are a number of factors which contributed to this performance: Regulation of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs): In February 2018, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) published guidelines on how tokens issued through ICOs would be classified and regulated.

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Research: How Malware Weaponized DNA

SecureWorld News

Everything technically checked out and was verified as authentic. We conducted a proof of concept: an obfuscated DNA encoding a toxic peptide was not detected by software implementing the screening guidelines. See the latest SecureWorld cybersecurity conference calendar. However, malicious code was obfuscated—hidden inside.

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5 big challenges facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2021

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

For a more technical safeguard, we recommend securing access to a remote workforce via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) and protecting each user account with Multi-Factor Authentication. Way back when in-person events and conferences were a thing, we’d attend a few CIO conferences every year. How to address this challenge.

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