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Why do CISOs Keep Quitting on Florida?

SecureWorld News

Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) have the luxury of being an incredibly hot commodity, so they can pretty much pick and choose where they work, as they are almost guaranteed to have a job waiting for them somewhere. Cybersecurity officials struggle in Florida. DeSantis appointed former state Rep.

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SOC Technology Failures?—?Do They Matter?

Anton on Security

I lamented on this back in 2012 , and this affliction has not truly subsided. A new CISO comes in, tries to champion the implementation of a new tool, the CISO is gone after a short amount of time?—?like like most CISOs, and then a new CISO comes in and tries it all over again.

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Water utility CISO offers tips to stay secure as IT and OT converge

SC Magazine

Kristin Sanders, CISO for the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, revealed how New Mexico’s largest water and wastewater utility has been addressing the security challenge. The post Water utility CISO offers tips to stay secure as IT and OT converge appeared first on SC Media. Asaavedra32, CC BY-SA 3.0

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Listen: Former NSA analyst Tony Sager tackled ‘fog of more’

SC Magazine

Tune in to episode 11 of the CISO stories podcast, where Tony Sager of CIS speaks with Todd Fitzgerald, vice president of cybersecurity strategy at the Cybersecurity Collaborative. Before retiring in 2012 Sager oversaw all NSA red and blue teams, as well as all security product evaluation teams. So how should one choose?

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Social media's role in spreading U.S. election disinformation in the spotlight

CSO Magazine

The power of social media to influence elections has now been thrust into the spotlight again with the whistleblower allegations of Twitter’s former CISO. The 2008 and 2012 election campaigns of President Barack Obama displayed the power of social networks in delivering platform points and energizing the electorate.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. Mimecast Email security 2012 Nasdaq: MIME. a16z Investments. Bessemer Venture Partners. Greylock Partners.

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Emergency ‘PrintNightmare’ patch said to fix RCEs, but not privilege escalation on Windows servers

SC Magazine

According to Microsoft’s latest update on July 6, updates are not yet available for Windows 10 version 1607, Windows Server 2016, or Windows Server 2012. On the other hand, Hammond said the “seemingly partial fix” does look to prevent remote code execution.

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