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For startups, trustworthy security means going above and beyond compliance standards

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Oren Yunger is an investor at GGV Capital , where he leads the cybersecurity vertical and drives investments in enterprise IT, data infrastructure, and developer tools. Winning enterprise sales teams know how to persuade the Chief Objection Officer. In reality, compliance means that a company meets a minimum set of controls.

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Building your own web application platform is locking you in

CIO

Independently developing, testing, deploying, and scaling your infrastructure requires expertise, agility, and a shift in team responsibilities. Platform development includes design, coding, testing, securing, and deploying. Developing a custom platform requires the expertise of top talent. To build or not to build?

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. There are other risks, too.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

It’s easy to view these as competing priorities vying for CIO attention and budget that are unfairly dwarfed by boardroom interest in the new and shiny opportunities promised by gen AI. In fact, for security, compliance, and efficiency reasons, CIOs will want to carefully manage which data generative AI has access to.

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7 steps for turning shadow IT into a competitive edge

CIO

Ask IT leaders about their challenges with shadow IT, and most will cite the kinds of security, operational, and integration risks that give shadow IT its bad rep. At the same time, CIOs, CISOs, and compliance officers need to establish a risk management framework to quantify when shadow IT creates business issues or significant risks.

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Flagright offers transaction monitoring with usage-based pricing

TechCrunch

Particularly when it comes to financial compliance, implementing solutions isn’t a walk in the park — or cheap. A recent Accenture survey found that nine in 10 companies expect evolving business, regulatory and customer demands to increase their compliance costs by up to 30% over the next 2 years. Nadig to co-launch Flagright.

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The cyber security challenges in fintech and neobanking’s rise

CIO

“The only solution to this dilemma is to make sure that the development lifecycle of applications become ‘secure by design.’ This approach requires a transparent mechanism to embed vulnerability and compliance checks at the same time applications are built.

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