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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

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I give credit to all the team members within my group, from help desk to infrastructure to the application and software engineers to all of Novanta team members, because you can’t do cybersecurity alone, it’s a team event. That’s when I switched to computer engineering, in the middle of my master’s program. So, always be honest.

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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). Registration is required but ORNL employees attend at no cost.

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

Tenable

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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Need a security road map? Ditch the ad hoc measurement

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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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Top 10 governance, risk, and compliance certifications

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It’s crucial to ensure your organization is operating lawfully in every country it operates, that your business is protected from cybersecurity threats, and that your company both manages risk and establishes processes to govern those tasks. Why are GRC certifications important? Is GRC certification worth it?

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How to Build Security and Resilience into Your Digital Transformation

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2] 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence; Source: Voice of the Enterprise: Storage, Data Management and Disaster Recovery 2021. [3] Cloud Management Find more about it here. [1]