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Unit 42 Predicts the Year of Disruption and Other Top Threats in 2025

Palo Alto Networks

As a result, many organizations will prioritize strategies that ensure swift and secure recovery, such as immutable backups, advanced recovery planning and redundant systems designed to minimize downtime. Paying a threat actor fails to remove legal liability for data breaches, and there’s no assurance that data will be deleted as promised.

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Contentstack raises $80M to grow its headless CMS platform for the enterprise

TechCrunch

.” Contentstack, which was founded in 2018, was created on the back of fifteen-year-old consulting firm Raw Engineering and Built.io, an app development platform that Raw Engineering launched in 2013. Closing the loop, Contentstack eventually bought the CMS division of Raw Engineering in 2018).

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TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS success stats, leveraging ad tech chaos, 2022 layoff trends

TechCrunch

“This includes cutting non-performing products, decreasing R&D and general and administrative expenses, and doubling down on creative strategies to recover customer acquisition cost instantly to reduce burn associated with growth.” Dear Sophie: Will a doctor get a green card faster than an engineer? .

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” After all, Wijegunawardena has discovered that engineers learn best not by one-on-one consultation with a mentor, but by doing the work with their mentors and senior peers. Well, they have a lot more data.

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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

She has over 18 years of experience in software industry as an author, speaker, mentor, consultant, technology leader and developer. Maria Gutierrez is a VP of Engineering and an excellent example of Scotland’s commitment to employing women in the STEM sector. LinkedIn. 8 – Maria Gutierrez. LinkedIn. 10 – Liz Keogh.

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Opportunities for DevSecOps in 2021

Dzone - DevOps

Rick Vanover , Senior Director Product Strategy, Veeam : There is an incredible opportunity for traditional IT organizations to align to the DevSecOps practices today as well as work to modernize legacy platforms. Your custom code whether developed by staff, consultants, or outsourced. Sven Delmas , VP of Engineering at LogDNA.

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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

You can watch the entire webinar here , or read on for six highlights from the discussion with Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork; Cornelia Davis , the Senior Director of Technology at Pivotal; and Saminda Wijegunawardena , the Vice President of Engineering at Box. Where do you put the contracts in place?