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How to minimize remote access cyber security threats in 2024

CIO

Cloud is the dominant attack surface through which these critical exposures are accessed, due to its operational efficiency and pervasiveness across industries. The attack landscape has evolved to target critical infrastructure. Change your vulnerability mindset to identify legacy vulnerability management systems.

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Governance and Fighting the Curse of Complexity

CIO

The boulder is made from complex infrastructure, network connections, data stores, and devices. The Burgeoning Complexity of IT and Security Solutions On a business level, complexity comes from growth through acquisition – when enterprises inherit systems of record and of work that, more often than not, are different from one another.

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Averting turbulence in the air

CIO

A simple Google search can reveal that some of the major airlines with state-of-the-art IT infrastructure had customer data stolen due to security breaches. This is also due to the demographics of airline passengers, who are likely to be affluent enough to travel with platinum credit cards at their disposal. Well not exactly.

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Why Proxy-Based Firewalls Are Not Enough

Palo Alto Networks

Proxy-based firewalls or web proxies have been considered an essential security component for some time now, but the question remains: Can proxies really help keep users safe? The first proxy-based firewalls achieved the basic task of controlling which websites users could access on the Internet. Effectiveness.

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A Guide to Migrating Workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Datavail

With rapid technological and industry changes in recent years, more and more businesses are beginning to shift their on-premise legacy applications, data systems, and workloads to a cloud environment. Recent studies have shown that approximately 90% of large enterprises have adopted a multi-cloud infrastructure.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

Those working in IT management, including the roles of CIO, CTO, VP, and IT Director, hold high-level positions that oversee an entire company’s technology infrastructure. They’re also charged with assessing a business’ current system architecture, and identifying solutions to improve, change, and modernize it. increase from 2021.

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User Account Review | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

One of the topics you may not often think of as being all that important to security is user accounts on systems. We spend so much time on other things — like managing firewall rules, system patching , analyzing report data, etc. As part of these audits, I would review systems for best practice and general housekeeping.