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Top 8 ways to improve cybersecurity for your organization

CIO

As you plan your security budget, know that your recommendations to improve cybersecurity will be scrutinized more than ever before. We can’t forget every CISO’s favorite: “ How much will this reduce our cybersecurity risk? ” No budget is unlimited. Awareness training is a core method to improve cybersecurity.

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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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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

CIO

While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. However, it’s important to remember that headcount and budget cuts are not the only strategies to streamline costs.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%).

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Protect Your Cybersecurity Budget and Your Organization

Dell EMC

In an era of rising cyberthreats, organizations must also navigate economic challenges to protect their cybersecurity budgets.

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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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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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