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Aligning security and business strategies

CIO

By Sean Duca, vice president and regional chief security officer for Asia Pacific and Japan at Palo Alto Networks Some economists predict that we could soon face a global recession. This is the time when many CFOs trawl through every line item in the budget, looking for potential savings.

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The art of selling: IT budget approval made easier

CIO

Because as a young CIO, I was struggling with obtaining budget approvals for a range of IT initiatives. A majority of CIOs I speak with dread the budget approval process and breathe a welcome sigh of relief when annual budgeting comes to an end. And because of this, IT budgeters must have open ears.

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Why IT leaders are putting more business spin on security spend

CIO

Gartner projects that spending on information security and risk management products and services will grow 11.3% To better focus security spend, some chief information security officers (CISOs) are shifting their risk assessments from IT systems to the data, applications, and processes that keep the business going.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: SANS Offers Tips for Maximizing Smaller OT Security Budgets

Tenable

A SANS Institute survey found that budgets for ICS/OT security have shrunk, and advises on how to do more with less. In addition, CISA’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month campaign challenges tech vendors to build safer products. Essentially, budgets are down in just about every category we analyzed,” the SANS Institute report reads.

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Cybersecurity startup Ordr nabs $40M to monitor connected devices for anomalies

TechCrunch

billion internet of things (IoT) devices in use. Yet every device increases an organization’s attack surface, along with the potential for a cybersecurity attack. Yet every device increases an organization’s attack surface, along with the potential for a cybersecurity attack. In 2015, there were approximately 3.5

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How to enhance and secure cloud communications between government agencies

CIO

The May 2021 release of Executive Order 14028, Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity , the growing attack surface due to cloud adoption, and the January 2022 Federal Zero Trust memorandum have all added urgency to the federal government’s move to implement better network security through solutions based in Zero Trust architecture.

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“If organisations are hacked, they should stay calm and act quickly by instantly activating their incident response plan”

CIO

CIO Middle East discuss with Muath AlHomoud, Director of Cybersecurity about how organisations should learn from the hacking activities performed on them so they can implement more effective cyber defences and plan against similar or more sophisticated attacks. From a cybersecurity perspective, how has 2023 been?