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Mastercard preps for the post-quantum cybersecurity threat

CIO

Such a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) could deliver a devastating impact to global cybersecurity protocols. To prepare for this worst-case scenario, Mastercard launched its Quantum Security and Communications project, which earned the company a 2023 US CIO 100 Award for IT innovation and leadership. Miller agrees.

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Eclypsium lands $25M to secure the device supply chain

TechCrunch

As the enterprise device supply chain grows increasingly global and fragmented, it’s becoming more challenging for organizations to secure their hardware and software from suppliers. Eclypsium’s cloud management dashboard Image Credits: Eclypsium.

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Cybersecurity strategies for protecting data against ransomware and other threats

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Protecting these ever-increasing volumes of data is a high priority, and while there are many different types of cybersecurity threats to enterprise data, ransomware dominates the field. At the top of the cybersecurity risk chart is ransomware attacks. Organizations will only be as safe as their identities are secured.”

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Enter the next phase of Industry 4.0 with edge AI

CIO

Less than 10% of the FTSE 500 companies that existed fifty years ago are still around today and less than half of the companies founded since 2000 are still operating. The business world is changing at a rapid pace. Company executives are well aware that their businesses need to adapt to keep up with the rapid transformation now taking place.

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Panera Bread’s feckless security puts consumers at risk

The Parallax

Security researcher Dylan Houlihan says he notified Panera Bread, a chain of more than 2,000 stores in the United States, of a website vulnerability in August 2017. How to attack security issues like Google and Microsoft just did. Not extortion. Bug bounties break out beyond tech. The dark side of bug bounties. ”—Rep.

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Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech

The Parallax

SAN FRANCISCO—The fastest, most cost-effective way to secure direct-record electronic voting machines in the United States, according to cybersecurity experts, is to stop using them. Experts disagree on how to secure absentee votes. Context Conversations preview: Election security. Why current funding to secure U.S.

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IT downtime cuts enterprise profit by 9%, says study

CIO

For the study, titled “The Hidden Costs of Downtime,” Oxford Economics quizzed executives from Global 2000 companies about the causes and costs of downtime in IT systems. Almost a quarter of the estimated cost of downtime — $49 million of the estimated $200 million average for Global 2000 companies — was due to lost revenue, the study found.

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