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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s common knowledge among CIOs that disaster recovery investments are always de-prioritized by company boards — until disaster strikes. But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval.

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Spotlight on Cybersecurity Leaders: Donna Ross

SecureWorld News

Donna Ross is a senior security and compliance executive with over 20 years of diverse risk, compliance, cybersecurity, technology, and operations experience within the manufacturing, insurance, banking, financial services, healthcare, and retail sectors. A : Information Security.

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Expanding the Cloud – The Second AWS GovCloud (US) Region, AWS GovCloud (US-East)

All Things Distributed

Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Low, Moderate, and High baselines. Department of Justice's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy. Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security. US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

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Strong Business Continuity Management Brings Resilience

CIO Business Intelligence

When businesses attend to these concerns, configuring disaster recovery features in the cloud is reasonably straightforward. Commercial insurance is another critical risk-mitigation tool used to reduce operational risks. Organizations may acquire insurance to protect the tangible assets (e.g.,

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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. . Gururaj Rao moves to Aditya Birla Health Insurance.

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Federal Government Signals Interest In Several Key Leading Edge Technologies

CTOvision

In a computing context, the term security implies cybersecurity. Ensuring cybersecurity requires coordinated efforts throughout an information system. Elements of cybersecurity include: Application security, Information security, Network security, Disaster recovery / business continuity planning, and End-user education.

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InfoSec Leaders Weigh in on New SEC Rules Making CISO Hotseat Hotter

SecureWorld News

What about providing D&O (directors and officers liability) insurance to CISOs? For sanity, manage to a written information security policy. The parties involved are wide and deep, from higher education to HR's way of recruiting and to technology used to scan candidates, and many more aspects in between.