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This March, Keep the Madness on the Court and Out of Your Network

Firemon

About a month ago, we posted a poll to our LinkedIn community asking, “What’s the worst consequence of a firewall misconfiguration?” The bracket started with twelve different consequences of a misconfigured firewall policy, three polls with four options per poll. With nearly 200 responders, you guys did not disappoint!

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What Do CIOs Need To Know About Cyber Insurance?

The Accidental Successful CIO

When you are the CIO, you deal with things like servers, networks, firewalls and the like. You are not generally called on to deal with other business related issues such as insurance. The problem is that cyber insurance is new and it raises more questions than it answers. What Needs To Be Covered?

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Governance and Fighting the Curse of Complexity

CIO

The boulder is made from complex infrastructure, network connections, data stores, and devices. Cyber insurance. There are “integrated” approaches to cybersecurity threat protection and remediation, including solutions from Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Fortinet, and many others. The task is Sisyphean. Unfortunately, not.

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MSP Landscape, an interview with Steve Martinez

Firemon

Consider Cyber Insurance – who pays in the case of a security breach? For instance, you may provide firewall management, but are you recertifying each of those rules each year? Think cyber insurance. Consider Cyber Insurance. Consider Cyber Insurance. Combat Commoditization. Think automation. The MSSP’s.

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Platforms in Action — Three Companies That Supercharged Risk Posture

Palo Alto Networks

Many applications and workloads have moved to the cloud while employees now work in hybrid and remote environments – connecting to the network from anywhere and on any device. Here is a look at organizations in mortgage, life insurance and semiconductors. Today’s organizations face cybersecurity challenges on multiple fronts.

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Is YC turning into a kind of fight club?

TechCrunch

Whereas YC always backed companies that might at some point overlap, the outfit appeared to casting its net far and wide, bringing in different startups at different stages from different geographies — companies that used each other’s products, in fact, and formed tight bonds through YC’s active alumni network. Clupp and Momento.

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IoT Adoption in Healthcare Brings Security Opportunities

CIO

By Anand Oswal, Senior Vice President and GM at cyber security leader Palo Alto Networks Connected medical devices, also known as the Internet of Medical Things or IoMT, are revolutionizing healthcare, not only from an operational standpoint but related to patient care. But ransomware isn’t the only risk. Simplify operations.

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