To Guy Hadari, CIO of Biogen, the most important, but often overlooked skill for a CIO is management.
“Most people consider the CIO to be a technology person, and they want to put them in a technology box, but technology should be only 20% of a CIO…
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National Trust’s CIO on the need for sustainability storytelling
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National Trust CIO Jon Townsend is laying down some home truths on sustainability. Five years ago, he notes that the message in the IT industry was not of reaching net zero, ESG commitments or being more sustainable, but rather of businesses becoming …
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How data can move the needle on supply chain
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Data-driven supply chains continues to be a hot topic, given what’s happened over the last couple of years with the pandemic, lockdowns, transportation woes, container ships held outside ports, war in Ukraine and other issues wreaking havoc. Problems …
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Implementation partners get strategic — so should CIOs’ use of them
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As transformational IT has increasingly become a business imperative, implementation partners have been looking to strengthen their value proposition for their customers. To differentiate themselves from transactional service providers, the more proac…
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Lacework Co-CEO David Hatfield Out 4 Months After Layoffs
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Hatfield’s Exit Comes Amid a Go-To-Market Exodus, With CRO Andy Byron Also LeavingDavid “Hat” Hatfield has exited the co-CEO role at Lacework just four months after the cloud security vendor laid off 20% of its employees. The move will bring Lacework’s…
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Another Telco Breach Rocks Australia
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Telecommunication Giant Telstra Says It Was a Small Data BreachAustralia’s largest telecom provider acknowledged Tuesday a data breach, but said the data came from a now-defunct employee rewards program from 2017. A company executive accused the hacker…
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ISC StormCast for Wednesday, October 5th, 2022
by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich •
Credential Harvesting with Telegram
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Credential%20Harvesting%20with%20Telegram%20API/29112/
Updated Microsoft Exchange Fix
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2022/09/29/customer-guidance-for-reported-zero-day-vulnerabili…
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Scammers Get Scammed, Crypto Worth Thousands Stolen
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Water Labbu Drained At Least $316K from Nine ScamersA cryptocurrency thief is hacking into other scammers’ fraudulent liquidity mining websites to reach directly into the digital wallets of victims. The threat actor, dubbed Water Labbu by Trend Micro, …
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More Action Needed on Telehealth Privacy, Security Risks
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GAO Report Recommends Additional Guidance for Healthcare Providers, PatientsAt the onset of the novel coronavirus public health emergency, regulators said they would not enforce certain potential HIPAA violations involving telehealth. But with that 202…
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Qualys Buys Blue Hexagon to Aid Secure Public Cloud Adoption
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Blue Hexagon Platform to Identify, Mitigate Zero-Day Vulnerabilities, Unknown RiskQualys has purchased a startup founded by longtime Qualcomm leaders to help detect supply chain infections, crypto miners and unauthorized activity in the cloud. The deal…
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Live Webinar | Cybersecurity’s Best Practices for a Remoter Workforce
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Panel Discussion | Smartest Path to PCI DSS v4.0 on AWS
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How to Bring 3D Design Teams Together… Remotely
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New collaboration-enhancing technologies are transforming three-dimensional (3D) design and accelerating content creation. The film industry used to require years of work from hundreds if not thousands of visual effects (VFX) artists to create a singl…
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HPC-Powered Simulation Helps Engineers See into the Future
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Imagine being able to fly one of the world’s fastest airplanes in a digital environment. In that virtual world, you can test the plane’s viability by adding or removing environmental and man-made variables. Or simulate jet engine performance to reduc…
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7 signs it’s time for a new CIO job
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Parting may be a sweet sorrow, but it can be inevitable when a CIO detects a tell-tale sign that a quick and clean employment departure represents the best course of action.
Most CIOs at one time or another have found themselves working at an enter…
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Comment relever les défis du recrutement en TI au Québec
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Par les temps qui courent, il fait bon être un professionnel des TI à la recherche d’un emploi au Québec. Pour les entreprises en quête de talents, c’est une tout autre histoire.
Fin 2021, le comité sectoriel TECHNOCompétences recensait quelque 13 …
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How to meet the challenges of IT recruitment in Québec
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These days, it’s great to be an IT professional looking for a job in Québec. But for companies looking for talent, it’s a different story.
At the end of 2021, the TECHNOCompétences sector committee identified some 13,000 available IT positions – ab…
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Top 16 agile certifications available today
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The agile approach to project management has gained immense popularity across nearly every industry due to its flexibility and its emphasis on visualizing projects as discrete parts that can then be delivered quickly in sprints.
Given the demand fo…
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NCMS CIO exploits ‘Great Resignation’ to slash costs, streamline IT operations
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The end of the Great Resignation — the latest buzzword referring to a record number of people quitting their jobs since the pandemic — seems to be nowhere in sight.
“New employee expectations, and the availability of hybrid arrangements, will conti…
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CIO50 Middle East 2022: Introducing the top 50 tech leaders in the Middle East
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CIO Middle East is proud to unveil the expanded CIO50 Middle East Awards in 2022, recognizing the top 50 senior technology executives driving innovation, strengthening resiliency, and influencing rapid change across the Middle East.
The CIO50 Middl…
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How CIOs Can Transform Data From a Cost to an Advantage
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The CIO has a real ability to achieve a competitive advantage for its business through data. This is the underlying purpose of the digital transformation exercises that have been so significant to IT in recent years. For the CIO to be successful with …
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ISC StormCast for Tuesday, October 4th, 2022
by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich •
Microsoft Exchange Vulnerability Fix Bypassed
https://twitter.com/testanull/status/1576774007826718720
Schneider Electric UMAS Patch Bypass
https://securelist.com/the-secrets-of-schneider-electrics-umas-protocol/107435/
Supply Chain Attack via Trojan…
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US Regulators Identify Cybersecurity Risks in Crypto Trading
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Need Regulator for Bitcoin Spot Market, Says Financial Stability Oversight CouncilA council chaired by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and comprised of the heads of major federal financial regulatory agencies called on Congress to more closely regulate…
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Hacker Steals $29M From Transit Finance, Returns $19M
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Thief Retains $2M as ‘Bug Bounty,’ Loses $1M to Bot AttackA hacker exploited a smart contract bug to steal about $29 million from DEX aggregator Transit Finance. Within hours of the theft, the attacker returned nearly $19 million – but not before keepi…
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Why Is Akamai an Appealing M&A Target for Private Equity?
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Akamai’s Big Bets Around Security Compensate for a Struggling Content Delivery UnitThe steady barrage of acquisition reports around publicly traded digital experience vendor Akamai has intensified in recent weeks. The latest salvo landed Monday when St…
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Shangri-La Hotels Hit by Data Breach Incident
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Hong Kong Privacy Office Says It Is ‘Disappointed’ With Breach NotificationUpscale Asian hotelier Shangri-La Group has copped to a data breach incident that may affect hundreds of thousands of guests. The hotel detected unauthorized access to its guest…
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Passwords Are Unfit – So Why Do We Still Have Them?
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Passwords are supported everywhere. But, says Andrew Shikiar, executive director of the FIDO Alliance, “they have been proven time and time again to simply be unfit for today’s networked economy.” In this episode of “Cybersecurity Unplugged,” Shikiar d…
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Evolving IAM Challenges in Healthcare and Other Sectors
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Rebecca Archambault, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner, Discusses Top IAM TrendsThe healthcare sector has long faced unique challenges involving identity and access management, but the novel coronavirus pandemic and various other key drivers are accen…
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Tim Eades of vArmour on Expanding From Banking to Government
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CEO Dishes on How Government Has Struggled to See Across Its Application TerrainWhile vArmour has enjoyed success in banking, the U.S. government is now the fastest-growing part of its business. CEO Tim Eades says much of the government doesn’t unders…
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Increase Customer Loyalty with Payment Tokenization
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Your customers expect their payment experiences to be simple, secure, and consistent, whether they’re buying online, on their devices, or in store. They also want to pay the way that best suits them. Customers are increasingly adopting alternative pay…
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New Pricing Platform Ensures Swift Delivery of Emergency Medical Supplies
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China’s Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd. was founded on a simple but idealistic principle: Better Healthcare for all.
To achieve that vision, the global developer, manufacturer, and supplier of medical devices intends to make heal…
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AI is not limited to those with deep pockets
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The benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) are not limited to the largest enterprises with the deepest pockets. A new IDC survey of 2,000 IT and line-of-business executives who influence AI purchases in mid-sized organizations found that about a thi…
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North Korea Trojanizing Open-Source Software
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Lazarus Group Uses Social Engineering to Manipulate Victims to Download MalwareNorth Korea is using weaponized versions of open-source utilities to spy on the technology, defense and entertainment sectors worldwide. Microsoft says it spotted fake profi…
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Digital Identity Bill Passes Key Senate Milestone
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Jeremy Grant Explains How Bill Would Create Standards, Funding for Online IDsA Senate committee this week approved a bill that would create governmentwide standards for identity verification and provide grants to help states and local agencies upgrade …
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Real-time Data, Machine Learning, and Results: The Evidence Mounts
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By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax
From delightful consumer experiences to attacking fuel costs and carbon emissions in the global supply chain, real-time data and machine learning (ML) work together to power apps that change …
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What is Kyndryl? IBM’s managed infrastructure services spin-off explained
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With claims to be the world’s largest IT infrastructure provider, Kyndryl, a division of IBM until November 2021, is now its own company with little changed for customers initially — except perhaps the logo on their invoice. But over time, Kyndryl has…
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Magna’s multicloud fuels auto industry’s future
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Magna International has made a big splash of late displaying the highly anticipated Fisker Ocean SUV electric vehicle (EV) and a pilot of a pizza delivery robot at trade shows.
But you won’t see the company brand anywhere on any vehicle. The Aurora…
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What IT will look like in 2025
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Today’s CIOs need to be more than strategic, they should be visionaries, too.
With that in mind, many are already looking ahead and planning for what they, their IT departments, and their organizations as a whole will need in 2025.
Todd Cassidy,…
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3 data-driven approaches to raise the bar on customer experience
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In the digital age, customers expect seamless experiences from the brands they do business with, regardless of where or how they buy goods and services. Customers gravitate to personalized interactions and show a preference for companies that anticipa…
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ISC StormCast for Monday, October 3rd, 2022
by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich •
Microsoft Exchange 0-Day Update
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Exchange+Server+0Day+Actively+Exploited/29106
https://microsoft.github.io/CSS-Exchange/Security/EOMTv2/
CISA Adds Atlasian Bitbucket Vulnerability to Exploited List
https://www.cisa.g…