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3 lessons that CIOs learned in 2018

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

A recent study found that the average cost of a data breach in 2018 was $3.86 Many of them stem from known security issues like unencrypted data, unpatched software, common vulnerabilities, etc… In other words, issues that could’ve been corrected with a proactive approach to security. “As million, up 6.4 percent from 2017.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Kamal Goel has migrated from one data centre operator to another. Before that he worked in a number of other roles in IT infrastructure and data centre planning and management. Web Werks operates Tier-III data centres, in Mumbai, Pune and Delhi, with plans to open others in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai.

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Why Organizations Fail to Secure Third-Party Remote Access

SecureWorld News

The other issue is the downtime and critical systems that are managed by a vendor. So as organizations spend more and more time trying to put in security controls, sometimes the result is they actually have more critical downtime events from vendor managed machines or infrastructure applications.