N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Defining the position of the lead security person in an enterprise can be a challenging and sometimes confusing task. There are various job titles such as; Chief Security Officer (CSO), Chief Risk Officer, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), V.P., IT Security, V.P., or Director of Information Security.

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Coveros

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

2023 was a year of relentless evolution in the cybersecurity landscape. Let’s take a look at a few critical security happenings from last year, including notable data breaches, valuable report findings, and key themes. Read on for the insights and takeaways I curated to stay informed of emerging threats and opportunities.

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CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

Other responsibilities may include addressing digital transformation initiatives, guiding application development, and identifying security issues. The role can be particularly appealing for semi-retired and financially secure CIOs who wish to remain active in IT without the angst and drama that often surrounds C-level politics.

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Blue Sentry

AUGUST 17, 2021

Whether you are already one of the millions of active customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS), or are considering if you should migrate your organization’s workloads to the cloud, you’ve more than likely questioned the general security surrounding the platform. Managed Security Services. Vendor management.

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CIO

APRIL 19, 2024

As such, he and his team had to negotiate with these third parties to ensure they could access the data in a specific and secure format, either in real time or near real time. CIO, Data Management, Data Quality, ICT Partners, IT Leadership, Travel and Hospitality Industry, Vendor Management

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 22, 2020

Even the most security-conscious business remains at risk of an attack. With a cybersecurity landscape dominated by fragmented security vendors and tools, businesses struggle to protect themselves. Another example of cooperation in cybersecurity is Unit 42 , the Palo Alto Networks threat intelligence team.

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Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 7, 2020

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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Saviynt

APRIL 2, 2019

To remain compliant, organizations need vendors who match their cybersecurity risk tolerance levels. The rigorous FedRAMP authorization process provides assurance that the vendor offers a solution that supports systems, incorporates innovative technology, and secures their customers’ information.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

.” In this context, the role of sales changes from pushing products to enabling customers to make informed decisions. Enablement includes everything from access to additional resources, volume discounts and navigating security, to vendor management, procurement and understanding product roadmaps.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The global standard at lightning speed Based in Dublin, Ireland, Accenture specializes in digital, cloud, and security technology strategies, consulting, and operations, serving more than 40 industries in more than 120 countries.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI vendor management Only the biggest companies are going to build or manage their own AI models, and even those will rely on vendors to provide most of the AI they use. He’s already seeing this in the cybersecurity space. “At One thing buyers have to be careful about is the security measures vendors put in place.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“They’re having to balance security and data privacy with speed of delivering on the generative AI value promise.” If you get your governance, security, and your data ingestion right, generative AI can help scale a small company into a big company — and a lean one,” says Thompson.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2024

Create a framework to guide decisions Michael Bradshaw, who has held the CIO position at Kyndryl since the IT service management company spun off from IBM in 2021, developed a framework around five core guiding principles to facilitate key IT decisions. That’s the black swan for gen AI,” Gupta says.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Startups that don’t use a vendor management framework to oversee their tech stack are flying in a dense fog: There’s no easy way to know how much they’re spending each month or on what. Surviving the SaaS tsunami: Optimize your tech stack to reduce risk and free up cash flow.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

You also sacrifice the opportunity to standardize on optimization, operations, security management and so on,” he adds. So they created an XaaS team, called the Anything as a Service team that owns cloud operations best practices, overall account management, and the financials. “But

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Newgen Software

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A self-service vendor portal can greatly enhance the level of service provided by AP departments to vendors. Here’s how it achieves this: Efficient Vendor Management You can enable your vendors to access relevant information, monitor and respond to orders, and generate timely invoices with the help of a self-service portal.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

What’s interesting is I had no formal education or training on threat intelligence, and I was learning security operations in the cyber role on the fly at the time. C-Suite, CIO, IT Leadership, Relationship Building, Vendor Management

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Kaseya

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

According to Kaseya’s annual 2021 MSP Benchmark Survey , the top five IT services provided by MSPs are antivirus/antimalware, endpoint management , server backup, OS patching and updates, and email security, in that order. However, small and midsize businesses usually outsource services like: Endpoint management.

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Ivanti

AUGUST 4, 2021

In an average month, an organization may spend 40 hours or more per SaaS vendor managing usage, overall spend, and contract renewals. Quick and easy access to asset data also ensures a more secure environment, enabling IT managers to isolate and exclude out-of-date software versions lacking the most recent security protections.

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Jeremiah Grossman

MAY 17, 2016

Security budgets are always extremely tight, so it’s smart to get the absolute best price possible from your security vendors. Never ever pay full price, or even take the first quote vendors give you. Customers, even small ones, can exercise a ton of leverage over their security vendors if they only knew how.

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Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Cost Optimization: By providing insights into software usage and license compliance, software asset management tools enable organizations to optimize their software spending. This may involve reallocating licenses, negotiating better licensing agreements, or identifying opportunities to consolidate software vendors.

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CircleCI

JULY 18, 2022

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. Another standard is the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS).

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 22, 2019

As both security threats and compliance pressures grow, automating security and baking security controls into the software development process is now critical. A service mesh can best be described as a dedicated layer of infrastructure that enables rapid, secure, and dependable communication between and among service instances.

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Trigent

JULY 27, 2021

Incidents of cyberattacks continue to jeopardize data security. Not surprisingly, then, enterprises are now focusing on strengthening cybersecurity. A Gartner survey reports: “ With the opening of new attack surfaces due to the shift to remote work, cybersecurity spending continues to increase. Why adopt cybersecurity mesh?

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Capgemini

MAY 24, 2023

ADM services refer to the outsourcing of different IT areas, for example, infra services, security management, application services, etc. Prior to SAP RISE, these services were normally provided by specialized vendors that held expertise in these areas.

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Tenable

JANUARY 31, 2024

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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CIO

JANUARY 3, 2024

There’s bias in both the training data sets and in the results, and there are ethical concerns, runaway costs, integration challenges, model drift, lack of transparency, data security risks, plagiarism risks, and regulatory risks. Established vendors are racing to add generative AI to their products and services as well.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What to ask The question CIOs need to ask themselves is not who will buy Nutanix, but what to do if a key vendor is acquired or otherwise changes direction — a fundamental facet of any vendor management plan. “If If your software vendor is independent then the immediate question is: Is the company buying this one that I’m using?

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Tenable

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Center for Internet Security unpacks how to establish foundational cyber hygiene at a reasonable cost. Plus, the Cyber Safety Review Board issues urgent security recommendations on its Lapsus$ report – and announces it’ll next delve into cloud security. Moreover, are humans or AI better at crafting phishing emails?

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CircleCI

OCTOBER 31, 2019

At CircleCI, we care about security - last year, we became the first CI/CD tool to meet the rigorous security and privacy standards required by government agencies to get FedRAMP authorized. Now, CircleCI is SOC 2 compliant, adding another industry-recognized security accreditation. What is SOC 2?

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CodeSignal

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

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.

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CIO

JANUARY 23, 2023

In his role at Ally, a digital financial services company, Muthukrishnan runs a single organization that has responsibility for product definition, designing the user experience, building the product, collecting and securing relevant data, and managing and running the solutions end-to-end. You don’t lead with technology.

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CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

This helps improve reliability, and reduce the amount of time that the IT team spends on managing technology. In addition, it improves the security of the IT environment by limiting any gaps in the connectedness between technology. One in four CIOs spend a significant amount of time managing IT crises.

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Kaseya

JUNE 29, 2021

Depending on the customer’s requirements, managed service providers can either oversee a single IT function, like network monitoring or cybersecurity, or oversee the entire IT environment. What Are the Benefits of Managed Services? What Are the Benefits of Managed Services? Types of Managed Services.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The writing is on the wall: Traditional security tools and methodologies are ill-suited to protect cloud native’s developer-driven and infrastructure-agnostic multicloud patterns. It’s now time to enter the Age of the Cloud Native Security Platform (CNSP). The Demand for a New Security Paradigm.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

He or she is responsible for negotiating with different suppliers to obtain core operating services that meet service and performance agreements (availability, performance, response and resolution times, and the like), have suitable features for business operations, are highly secure, and are obtained at the minimum price possible.

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