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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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Top 10 Quotes About Cloud Security

SecureWorld News

Know what you're getting in the cloud: "One of the biggest challenges with cloud vendors is that very often someone is signing up for cloud services without bothering to go through a contract review. And that's just good, regular backups of data. And part of that is going to be your cyber liability insurance.

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InfoSec Policies and Standards: Some strategic context for those just diving into this world

CTOvision

Backup Policy. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ). Legal experts need to be consulted if you want to know what level of encryption is allowed in an area. CTO Cyber Security Access control Consultants Information security InfoSec Management Policy Security Security policy'

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North Korean Threat Actors Targeting Healthcare Sector with Maui Ransomware

SecureWorld News

Tim McGuffin, Director of Adversarial Engineering at LARES Consulting, discusses the benefits to manual ransomware: "This is still fairly rare, however, it's a good method to bypass modern Endpoint Protection and Canary files that would alert and kill automated, system-wide ransomware. What is North Korea up to?

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

It is my contention that when the total cost of using all your data exceeds what you are able to spend using purpose-built technologies, it is time to consider using a general purpose solution like Hadoop for process offloading. About the author: Jeremy Glesner is the Chief Technology Officer of Berico Technologies.

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7 challenges facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2020

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

The most obvious answer is pay a premium for the best talent, or hire consultants with modern skills. The recent news cycle has been flooded with organizations from airlines to banks and hospitals, even entire local governments, falling victim to ransomware attacks,” says Alan Conboy, office of the CTO at Scale Computing.