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What is an IT consultant? Roles, types, salaries, and how to become one

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IT consultants are responsible for helping organizations design and develop strategic IT projects and manage their technology use. These include strategy consultants, systems consultants, and security consultants, among others, says Paul Farnsworth, CTO attechnology careers site Dice.

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Scaling a medical device company: A CIO’s digital transformation journey

CIO

One of many important missions is to ensure that when you acquire and integrate a company, then you transition them to good foundational systems I started as a CIO but with cyber events happening at an increasingly alarming rate, I developed the cyber program. Statistics show that 75% of ERP programs fail, and only 25% are successful.

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FY 2024 State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program Adds CISA KEV as a Performance Measure

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The CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog and enhanced logging guidelines are among the new measurement tools added for the 2024 State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program. Last month, the Department of Homeland Security announced the availability of $279.9 Applications must be submitted by December 3, 2024.

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PCI DSS version 4.0: Is your payment card data security program ready?

CIO

The numerous new attack vectors being used by threat actors to obtain payment card data underscores the increasing necessity of compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). and remain compliant long-term, while continually strengthening their overall security stance. It is also a high-value target.

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The 10th Cyber & Information Security Research (CISR) Conference at Oak Ridge Tn, 7-9 April 2015

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The 10th Cyber & Information Security Research (CISR) Conference, 7-9 April 2015, will be held at the Conference Center, 2nd Floor, Building 5200, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Cyber Security and the Data Protection Act (acunetix.com). Cyber Security and the Data Protection Act (acunetix.com).

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Need a security road map? Ditch the ad hoc measurement

CIO

CISOs can only know the performance and maturity of their security program by actively measuring it themselves; after all, to measure is to know. However, CISOs aren’t typically measuring their security program proactively or methodically to understand their current security program.

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3 ways to help secure the course of a new transformation program

CIO

It can be easy to neglect the start of your transformation program when your organization and team are set on the larger, big-picture goals of the initiative. You can expect issues, challenges, and problems will occur during the life of your program, but starting strong is the first step to run a great project.

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