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People Skills Outweigh Technical Prowess in the Best Security Leaders

SecureWorld News

But it is vital as they fight for cybersecurity budget, try to explain risk, and explain the importance of line items such as security awareness training, blue, red and purple team exercises, and more. This helps build awareness of security risks and get buy-in for security initiatives.

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Patient Portal Puts a Spotlight on Secure Messaging

CTOvision

Stage 2 requires expanded use of patient portals, as well as implementation of secure messaging, allowing patients to exchange information with physicians regarding their health care. Secure Messaging Requires Authentication and Secure Networks.

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Security Experts Assess 2.0 Draft of NIST Cybersecurity Framework

SecureWorld News

The addition of the 'implementation examples' are an extremely useful tool for organizations to actually implement the security controls they choose. Defending and Investigating Advanced Intrusions on Secure Email Gateways" at SecureWorld Dallas on Oct. Nader Zaveri – Sr. 8 (day 1 of the 2-day conference).

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Combatting Phishing with Enhanced Cybersecurity Awareness Programs

SecureWorld News

At the end of the day, it turned out that this was the work of the company's information security team, aimed at showing management how simply attackers could gather data for targeted phishing campaigns. They are not designed for executing cyber exercises, and HR professionals typically lack the expertise in this specific domain.

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Cloud Security Alliance Federal Summit 5 May in DC

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The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure and highly functional cloud computing environment. Presenting: Jim Reavis, CEO, Cloud Security Alliance. Cognitio has tracked and supported the CSA since the beginning.

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4 methods to help CIOs manage cyber stress

CIO Business Intelligence

Two years on since the start of the pandemic, stress levels of tech and security executives are still elevated as global skills shortages, budget limitations and an ever faster and expanding security threat landscape test resilience. “In Exercise empathy and compassion. It involves people too.”. Helen Constantinides.

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How to Improve Your Organization’s Cyber Resiliency

CIO Business Intelligence

The practice brings together formerly separate disciplines of information security, business continuity, and disaster response (BC/DR) deployed to meet common goals. It’s about making sure there are regular test exercises that ensure that the data backup is going to be useful if worse comes to worst.”.

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