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CIOs Deal With Password Lockout Challenges

The Accidental Successful CIO

Accessing a system should not be a challenge for users Image Credit: Les Orchard One of the things that a CIO has to do is to deal with a long list of complaints from users about how the company’s technology works. In most organizations, the system administrator would be held accountable.

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3 Questions That Every CIO Should Be Asking About Clouds (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

Cloud computing has almost become a part of the definition of information technology. Buying more servers would require more IT staff to act as systems administrators – no servers means no hiring of additional administrators. I love clouds, you love clouds, we all love clouds. Are Cloud Services Reliable Enough?

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Years of Research Reveals Holy Grail of Password Strength

SecureWorld News

When it comes to passwords, where is the holy grail that will miraculously maximize security and usability at the same time? The researchers start their new paper on passwords by explaining that everyone on the secure and usable password quest has lacked "empirically evaluated and definitive guidance" on password usage and policies—until now.

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The Challenges in Building Digital Trust

SecureWorld News

With our digital global economy being founded on trust, we need to establish a meaningful definition of "digital trust." System administrators didn't bother locking down their systems, because the possibility of bad actors using them didn't really cross their minds. Let's start with a quick story.

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How CIOs Can Boost Their IT Budgets Even In Hard Time (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

There are a lot of different costs that all seem to contribute to the definition of information technology: server, networks, applications, developers, system administrators, etc. Question For You: What do you think is the #1 IT program that a CIO can best use to secure additional funding? What All Of This Means For You.

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Decoding the secrets of code execution

Dataconomy

Detects issues such as coding errors, security vulnerabilities, and adherence to coding standards. This separation guarantees the safety and security of your production Python-based code. Additionally, it allows manual definition of programs through JMX connections. Designed to monitor Java applications running on Java 1.4+

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DevOps Chat Podcast: $2M DARPA Award Sparks Behavior Testing With ForAllSecure's Mayhem Solution

ForAllSecure

Secure software depends on people finding vulnerabilities and deploying fixes before they are exploited in the wild. This has led to a world of security researchers and bug bounties directed at finding new vulnerabilities. When I got out of undergrad, I was a computer security officer. Brumley: Yeah, absolutely. Ashley: Mm-hmm.

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