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CIO in the Age of AI: A Title Under Threat?

SecureWorld News

However, as technology has become more complex and pervasive, the CIO's role has expanded to encompass a broader range of responsibilities, including: Strategic IT leadership: CIOs are now expected to be strategic leaders, driving the organization's digital transformation agenda and aligning IT initiatives with business goals.

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The Impact of AI on Social Engineering Cyber Attacks

SecureWorld News

So how exactly has AI compounded the issue of social engineering as a cyber threat, and what can businesses do about the evolving landscape? The growing threat of social engineering Social engineering, fundamentally, refers to psychological manipulation tactics that attackers use to deceive victims.

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(ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study: Skills Gap Narrows But More Help Is Needed

CyberSecurity Insiders

Roughly one-third of the survey respondents indicated that a shortage in cybersecurity team members has led to real world impacts, including misconfigured systems, not enough time for risk assessment and management, rushed deployments, and slowly patched critical systems.

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State of the Industry: Where Is Cybersecurity Headed in 2022?

SecureWorld News

Dave DeWalt, Founder and Managing Director of Momentum Cyber and NightDragon Security, shared his thoughts: "We are entering a new age of Cybersecurity risk that is testing our defenses across every commercial and government organization.

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SPOTLIGHT: Women in Cybersecurity

McAfee

Alexandra Heckler is Chief Information Security Officer at Collins Aerospace, where she leads a diverse team of cyber strategy and defense experts to protect against cyber threats and ensure regulatory compliance. Director/CISO of IT Risk Management. government clients. government clients. Diane Brown. Ulta Beauty.

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Hackers Also Have Financial Reporting And Quotas :)

Security Boulevard

We should not be focused so much on the organization’s Return on investment or Return on asset around security spending; we should consider for a moment that with every significant security awareness training, every adaptive control, and every security policy only makes the task “of being hacked” even more expensive for the cybercriminals.

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2021 Security Outcomes Study: Stress Relief for CISOs

Cisco Security

We have heard countless times that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation has advanced three years in three months. This affected all levels of the cybersecurity landscape, and it has had a particularly broad impact for those in the C-Suite, specifically, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

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