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Spotlight on Cybersecurity Leaders: Tammy Klotz

SecureWorld News

Tammy Klotz is the Chief Information Security Officer at Covanta. She is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and is also Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC). Information Security Executive of the Year.

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Timeline: How a Hacker Tried to Poison a City

SecureWorld News

The chemical burns through clogs, but can also burn your eyes and skin. That's why it is so disturbing that a hacker tried to poison a Florida city by spiking the local water with massive amounts of this chemical. It's important to note that lye (chemical name sodium hydroxide) is often present at very low levels in water systems.

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Seattle-area inventor wins global COVID hackathon for tech that alerts public about crowded spaces

GeekWire

“It solves a real problem and I can see how you can quickly scale this out,” said hackathon judge Itumeleng Makgati, a chief information security officer with Sasol, an energy and chemical company. (Photos courtesy of Ian Mercer). The technology has uses beyond the COVID pandemic.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Prior to joining Fractal, Tiwari was senior vice-president and global CISO at Airtel, where he set up the managed security services initiative Airtel Secure for Business. Before that, he was the chief information security advisor at Microsoft India. . Rakesh Dhanda has joined chemical manufacturer Rossari Biotech as CIO.

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5 C-suite bridges every IT leader must build

CIO Business Intelligence

That’s especially true when functional areas outside IT routinely buy their own technology and hire their own technology professionals, says Irving Tyler, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, and former CIO of Quaker Chemical and IMS Health. Leaders of an organization’s various function areas tend to have differing needs and priorities.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Biology

ForAllSecure

And for me at least information security is just like a more complete version of pewter science, it's like, it's like not only creating things, but figuring out how things work, debugging things breaking things and those same skills can can be applied to any other domain. Green: So there are a lot of information security parallels.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. In a moment I’ll introduce you to someone who is trying to do that--bring ICS equipment to security conferences.

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