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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

When asked which challenges most often force IT to redirect time and focus away from strategy and innovation tasks, CIOs most commonly cited staff and skills shortages, changing business conditions, and addressing security threats. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees.

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

GeekWire

Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. Toth was previously VP of people and policy at Slack and head of privacy and policy for Google social products including Google+. (Amazon Photo). million seed round.

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Tech Moves: AWS exec named Splunk president; Amazon vet joins Overstock as CMO; and more

GeekWire

. — Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. billion and sells its contract management software in 90 countries. He was also previously CTO at network infrastructure and security technology company F5 Networks. Icertis is valued at $2.8

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What It Means To Be A Leader — EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS

A CIO's Voice

Understands and keeps up-to-date on local, national, and international policies and trends that affect the organization and shape stakeholders’ views; is aware of the organization’s impact on the external environment. Oversees procurement and contracting to achieve desired results. External Awareness. Flexibility.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

In fact, I remember starting a new job by flying to Auburn Hills, Michigan for the very first meeting of the Featherstone Group, a collection of automotive OEM executive and security professionals. Steve Grobman, CTO with Intel’s security group had this to say: CNBC: Yeah, so I think that nothing is ever impossible.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

And so, myself and another individual named Rob Farrell, we were brought in to start a security team. of pleasure, or rage, where operational security levels are much lower. One of the good examples, I would say somebody that had really good operational security was the Vegas shooter, the guy who did the active shooter situation there.

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NSO Group Placed on U.S. Blacklist

SecureWorld News

The infamous Israel-based NSO Group, known for its hacking spyware Pegasus, was placed on the United States Government's Entity List for engaging in malicious cyber activities, along with three other foreign companies, Candiru, Computer Security Initiative Consultancy PTE (COSEINC), and Positive Technologies.

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