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Five considerations for cloud migration, from the House of Representatives CISO

SC Magazine

Companies transitioning to the cloud have to think of cybersecurity as more than firewalls, access controls and incident response, and define goals of security that go beyond confidentiality, integrity and availability, said Randy Vickers, chief information security officer for the U.S. House of Representatives.

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BrandPost: CISOs Are Focused on These 3 Trends, Are You?

CSO Magazine

The rise in remote work means that many organizations are managing a complex web of in-person, online, and hybrid work scenarios while also juggling cloud migration to support their diversified workforce. 1] For Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), this has created a variety of new challenges to contend with.

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Hearing from CISOs at Google Cloud and Beyond

Anton on Security

In fact, many “CISO priorities lists” are floating out there online and many people claim to know “what CISOs want.” My analyst years taught me to be skeptical about such claims, if only because there are vast differences between CISOs of different organizations, in terms of security maturity, for example.

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Cybersecurity Collaborative’s Cloud Security Task Force to provide guidance for digital transformation

SC Magazine

The Collaborative convened the Cloud Computing Task Force of roughly 15 CISOs in February. The Cybersecurity Collaborative launched a Cloud Security Task Force with the mission of helping organizations guide their migrations and secure ongoing digital transformation initiatives. Sean Gallup/Getty Images).

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Grandson of FISMA: Why We Desperately Need New Cybsersecurity Legislation from the 117th Congress

Cisco Security

The 47-page report provided significant detail to support the conclusion that “According to agency inspectors general, the average grade of the agencies’ overall information security maturity is C-.”. The modern CISO is more than “IT security.”

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SPOTLIGHT: Women in Cybersecurity

McAfee

Forrester also predicts that the number of women CISOs at Fortune 500 companies will rise to 20 percent in 2019 , compared with 13 percent in 2017. This is consistent with new research from Boardroom Insiders which states that 20 percent of Fortune 500 global chief information officers (CIOs) are now women — the largest percentage ever.

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GUEST ESSAY: Leveraging best practices and an open standard to protect corporate data

The Last Watchdog

Two-thirds of the global population will be protected by privacy regulations by 2023, and 70% of organizations say such regulations make cloud migrations and analytics more difficult. You almost certainly need a chief information security officer (CISO). Outmoded cyber solutions. Assign roles and responsibilities.