CIO.com reported that “Digital success requires a product-based approach to IT — and a shift to persistent rather than per-project funding. Here’s how to address your CFO’s concerns about costs and risks. CFOs want certainty when it comes to spend. And they want to know exactly how much return on investment
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BankInfoSecurity.com reported that “Artificial intelligence technologies such as generative AI are not helping fraudsters create new and innovative types of scams. They are doing just fine relying on the traditional scams, but the advent of AI is helping them scale up attacks and snare more victims, according to fraud researchers
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CIO.com reported that “Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.” The March 15, 2024 article entitled
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SCMagazine.com reported that “Dallas-based UT Southwestern Medical Center had data from almost 2,100 individuals compromised following a data breach, The Dallas Morning News reports.”
The March 12, 2024 report entitled “UT Southwestern breach hits over 2K patients” (https://www.scmagazine.com/brief/ut-southwestern-breach-hits-over-2k-patients) included these comments a UT Southwestern spokesperson:
We are assessing
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Computerworld.com reported that “More than 150 leading artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, ethicists and others have signed an open letter calling on generative AI (genAI) companies to submit to independent evaluations of their systems, the lack of which has led to concerns about basic protections. The letter, drafted by researchers from MIT
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DarkReading.com reported that “New guidance expands the frame to consider organizations beyond critical infrastructure; it also addresses governance and supply chain cybersecurity.” The February
26, 2024 Report entitled “NIST Releases Cybersecurity Framework 2.0” (https://www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/nist-releases-cybersecurity-framework-2-0) which included these comments:
The new framework builds on its long-standing, cyber-risk-reducing recommendations to
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SCMagazine.com reported that “The U.S. government has been focused on protecting critical infrastructure this week with a push by CISA, the EPA and FBI to educate the water and wastewater systems sector on how to better secure their facilities from cyberattacks – and the Feb. 21 Biden administration executive order
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CIO.com reported that “After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, more efficiently, and cheaper.” The February 27
Continue Reading Finally CIOs have realized that Cloud Computing has been oversold and are ready to move back to On-Prem!
SCMagazine.com reported that “A multinational operation involving law enforcement agencies from 11 countries has struck a decisive blow to the LockBit group, the world’s most prolific ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) gang. A taskforce of 17 agencies including the FBI, the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), and Europol took control of key LockBit
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SCMagazine.com reported that Department of Justice Press Release (http://tinyurl.com/26zn8wbt) that “A January 2024 court-authorized operation has neutralized a network of hundreds of small office/home office (SOHO) routers that GRU Military Unit 26165, also known as APT 28, Sofacy Group, Forest Blizzard, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, and Sednit, used
Continue Reading Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) routers which have been part of a Russian large credential-harvesting has been dismantled by the FBI!