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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

In addition to AI and machine learning, data science, cybersecurity, and other hard-to-find skills , IT leaders are also looking for outside help to accelerate the adoption of DevOps or product-/program-based operating models. Dun & Bradstreet’s Manos recommends regular check-ins where key goals, metrics, and objectives are reviewed.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

If you ask someone, they’ll often recite a list of a dozen potential benefits of cloud — lower costs, better security, greater agility, and so on,” says Smith. data, security, development, architecture) as well. How will we balance security, agility, and usability? But that doesn’t answer the question.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Optimizing cloud investments requires close collaboration with the rest of the business to understand current and future needs, building effective FinOps teams, partnering with providers, and ongoing monitoring of key performance metrics. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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The Six Pillars of Effective Security Operations

Palo Alto Networks

In our extensive work with security teams around the world, we’ve seen the best and the worst security operations (SecOps) practices. The first measure to make meaningful improvement is to take a step back and do an honest evaluation of how your security operations are structured and how they’re serving your business goals.

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Cognitio’s Roger Hockenberry Cited in BizTechReports

CTOvision

The following is an excerpt: When it comes to cybersecurity, what you don’t know about the nature and sophistication of threats can hurt your organization badly. RH: Part of our Cyber 360 is we look at the CISO, the security officer function. It is difficult to understand the return on security investments.

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Cloud Leaders Sound Off on Key Challenges

Tenable

And, managing who has access to these systems poses a significant challenge. These are the findings from a commissioned survey including 262 IT and security professionals who have the final decision-making authority for their organization’s cloud infrastructure.

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Increasing Your Recommendation-to-Interview Ratio with Hiring Managers

CodeSignal

Bureau of Labor Statistics, “employment of computer and information technology occupations is projected to grow 13 percent from 2016 to 2026, faster than the average for all occupations.” Vague Requirements from the Client: Hiring managers aren’t always the most technically-minded people. What is the Recommendation-to-Interview Ratio?