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Start building your brand book with a visioning workshop

TechCrunch

Jamie Viggiano is the chief marketing officer at Fuel Capital , an early-stage venture capital firm investing in consumer, SaaS and infrastructure businesses. To be effective, each element of your brand’s ethos must be authentic. Here are three of the most effective ones for early-stage companies: Exercise #1: Is and will.

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Rackspace’s Brian Lillie on the importance of leadership principles

CIO

These thoughtful and reflective experiences allowed me to develop a statement of purpose about the life that I’d like to live, namely, to live a full and authentic life by personally and continually striving, learning, and growing, and by helping others flourish,” he says. The CAO asked him how he was going to fix it. “I

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How Can We Strengthen the Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructure? Here Are My Suggestions for CISOs, Regulators, Vendors – and All Citizens

Tenable

A year after the ransomware attack against the Colonial Pipeline, what can we do to further harden the IT and OT systems of power plants, fuel pipelines, water treatment plants and similar critical infrastructure facilities? With major disruptions to gasoline, diesel and jet fuel distribution across multiple U.S. government.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO

Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern. All other needs, for example, authentication, encryption, log management, system configuration, would be treated the same—by using the architectural patterns available.

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Modernizing Critical Infrastructure Requires Security Transformation

Palo Alto Networks

Critical Infrastructure Blog Series. It's only mid-year and already 2021 has proven to be a watershed year of attacks on critical infrastructure (CI). Leaders in these organizations need to pay attention to the security risk associated with the next wave of infrastructure that is being planned, or which may already be online.

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Women IT leaders on their climb to the top

CIO

Lauderdale, where she started out on the infrastructure side, “building that trust, empowering and setting people up for success, and making sure that they know that they’re valued and that they’re trusted.” But I wasn’t there for that — I was managing an enterprise infrastructure team, which was a key component to the initiative.

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Heightened cyber threats have everyone on edge, what do you need to know?

Lacework

Services like this greatly simplify identity and authentication challenges. Keep your systems updated, have a strong backup strategy, use modern security tools which continuously monitor environments, enable multi-factor authentication, and more. Any significant breach at a service like Okta would have a very large blast radius.