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Automating compliance in software delivery

CircleCI

One emerging challenge that developers and IT leaders face is the need to stay compliant with regulations and control frameworks that stipulate comprehensive data security, incident response, and monitoring and reporting requirements. Compliance requirements can add significant overhead to an organization. Regular compliance audits.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

However, this approach comes with its own sets of challenges such as compliance issues, misaligned workplace culture, and privacy concerns.” Jason Carolan, CIO of data center solutions provider Flexential, says deciding on the right model between full-services and staff augmentation is essential.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

IT leaders at the 60-year-old fleet management firm determined that cloud could support its rapid growth without the challenges of maintaining data centers. If the answer is no,” Upchurch says, “you may just be renting someone else’s data center.” How will we balance security, agility, and usability?

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Key Software Asset Management Tools and Benefits

Apiumhub

Software asset management tools are specialized software applications designed to help organizations manage and optimize their software assets throughout their lifecycle. This helps organizations avoid legal and financial risks associated with non-compliance.

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Attack Surface: Definition, Management and Reduction Best Practices

Kaseya

Common examples of attack surfaces include software, web applications, operating systems, data centers, mobile and IoT devices, web servers and even physical controls such as locks. Attack surface management is imperative for the following: Detection of misconfigurations. Types of attack surfaces.

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Just Exactly What Should A CIO Do During Their First 100 Days?

The Accidental Successful CIO

This means that you’ll have to consider closing data centers and rationalizing staff. You can use the synergy targets as an opportunity to develop a vendor management capability in IT. Use this as an opportunity to teach your team about SLAs, vendor scorecards, and cost optimization.

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Why the Age of the Cloud Native Security Platform Is Here to Stay

Palo Alto Networks

Cloud providers use the concept of a shared responsibility model to describe the fact that they’re responsible for meeting the security SLAs of the underlying services — securing the physical data centers, providing the controls to limit role-based access and so forth — but customers are responsible for secure configuration of those services.

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