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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. When it comes to IT vendors, a bad match can mean disaster.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. This makes cloud costs a target for finance teams and executives.”

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Why Ruby Life CISO George Al Koura puts people first

CIO

But when it comes to actual business, George Al Koura, CISO of online dating company Ruby Life, has built a career on how long-term success depends on building team cohesion within the organization, and elevating the relationship with partners outside it. Together we got the organization ISO 27001 certified, which took about two years.

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5 rules that transform outsourcing outcomes

CIO

For organizations seeking a collaborative win-win approach to outsourcing, the Vested sourcing business model is worth consideration. For example, a buying organization might want “outcomes,” but the contract spells out dozens or even hundreds of service level agreement metrics instead. Managed services contracts (e.g.,

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Defensive Instrumentation Benefits Everyone

Honeycomb

The advanced premise: if your organization doesn’t follow every best practice and cascading failures emerge when multiple downstream systems act oddly but none report errors, your app could be to blame—or, it could be a confluence of other issues making it fail. It could also be an external API.

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From Hype to Hope: Key Lessons on AI in Security, Innersource, and the Evolving Threat Landscape

Coveros

By understanding these cases and implementing industry best practices, organizations can build stronger defenses and better navigate the constantly evolving threat landscape. MoveIT What happened: This widespread attack targeted the MOVEit file transfer software used by numerous organizations.

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5 ways to measure and improve your QA Effectiveness; is your vendor up to the mark?

Trigent

The performance of software development can be measured by the difficulty and amount of code committed in a given sprint. The ‘right’ metrics to evaluate QA effectiveness depend on your organization. If the bug is critical enough in the first two cases, the solution is to add a test or fix the existing test so your team can rely on it.