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How CIOs Are Addressing The “Unsustainable” Security Challenge

CIO Business Intelligence

Over 80 per cent of businesses have had their security budgets increase in the past year, according to research by Accenture , and IT security budgets are now as much as 15 per cent of all IT spending. Security is still the art of following best practices. Data and Information Security

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People Skills Outweigh Technical Prowess in the Best Security Leaders

SecureWorld News

Having helped build out many SecureWorld conferences, I have come to realize—likely to no one's surprise—that the best cybersecurity leaders indeed have some technical prowess, but it is their soft skills that make them exceptional leaders. That's a soft skill that even the most adept CISOs are still trying to master.

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What Progressive CISOs Do to Enable Innovation?

SecureWorld News

Just like everyone else during this pandemic, SecureWorld has been adapting to remote work, which means pivoting from in-person conferences to virtual conferences. Joshua Cloud, Senior Director of Information Security at NFI. Todd Bearman, VP & CISO, Global Infrastructure and Security Solutions, TE Connectivity.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO Business Intelligence

We offer flexible work hours, reimbursement for college classes, and have a pretty good training budget, but if it’s all about money, people can make that elsewhere.” We are trying to create avenues for discovery and exploration so employees feel they have the best work/life balance and [enrichment] opportunities,” Stephens explains. “We

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Communities

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: So before we go to Vegas again before we return to sector or any of the other favorite conferences we might attend. Jack is probably best known as one of the three co-founders of the popular BSides security conferences. That wouldn’t pack a big conference room at Mandalay Bay or Caesars. Besides, I was born.

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Mixed Messages on Ransomware from Biden Administration?

SecureWorld News

We heard something surprising during a White House press conference this week that was in contrast to the usual messaging. However, in a press conference on June 2, Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that the recent attacks are a private sector versus a criminal enterprise problem, contrary to previous messaging from the White House.

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Mixed Messages on Ransomware from Biden Administration?

SecureWorld News

We heard something surprising during a White House press conference this week that was in contrast to the usual messaging. However, in a press conference on June 2, Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that the recent attacks are a private sector versus a criminal enterprise problem, contrary to previous messaging from the White House.