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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. Plus, hiring managers boost starting salaries to recruit stellar cyber pros. In addition, CISA’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month campaign challenges tech vendors to build safer products. And much more!

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

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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?

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What are the main challenges CISOs are facing in the Middle East?

CIO

From a cybersecurity perspective, how has been 2023? Very eventful year as far as cybersecurity is concerned. This continued emergence of cloud environments has greatly affected application development and their associated security architectures. What are the top three challenges security leaders will face in 2024?

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Top 8 challenges IT leaders will face in 2024

CIO

We are giving our budget and proposed projects more scrutiny to invest in areas that have clear attribution toward generated increased revenue, more efficiencies, lower costs, and improved workplace experiences,” Srivastava says. The role of the CIO has recently seen a massive convergence with cybersecurity,” says McCormick. “The

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9 tips for recruiting high-end IT talent

CIO

Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware. I spoke to tech leaders, technical recruiters, and CIOs about how they have cracked this nut to hire the top-tier tech talent they need. Here is their advice. That won’t work.”

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Dear Sophie: How can I improve our startup’s international recruiting?

TechCrunch

Dear Sophie: We’ve been having a tough time filling vacant engineering and other positions at our company and are planning to make a more concerted effort to recruit internationally. And providing immigration security through visa practices and green card programs supports retaining these valued individuals. Proactive in Pacifica.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO

According to the 2023 State of the CIO , IT leaders are looking to shore up competencies in key areas such as cybersecurity (39%), application development (30%), data science/analytics (30%), and AI/machine learning (26%). From a company standpoint, you minimize turnover and search and recruiting costs.”