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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO

What happened In CrowdStrikes own root cause analysis, the cybersecurity companys Falcon system deploys a sensor to user machines to monitor potential dangers. What if theres an urgent security fix? If theres a security threat and potential exposure, you have to go through the testing process as quickly as you can, Prouty says.

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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

CIO

What is vendor management? Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership. While working with IT vendors can help ease the burden on IT, it also raises concerns, especially around data, risk, and security.

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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

CIO

The main commercial model, from OpenAI, was quicker and easier to deploy and more accurate right out of the box, but the open source alternatives offered security, flexibility, lower costs, and, with additional training, even better accuracy. That makes them a better fit for deployment in resource-constrained environments.

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Grand Bank's Success Story: Enhancing Vendor Management with Ivanti's External Attack Surface Management Solution

Ivanti

In todays dynamic cybersecurity environment, effectively managing vendor relationships is crucial for protecting digital assets. Grand Bank, a prominent financial institution, faced similar challenges in monitoring and mitigating risks with its vendors. Evaluating vendor security proved especially difficult.

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How to know a business process is ripe for agentic AI

CIO

If a cost/benefit analysis shows that agentic AI will provide whats missing in current processes, and deliver a return on investment (ROI), then a company should move ahead with the necessary resources, including money, people, and time.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO

It prevents vendor lock-in, gives a lever for strong negotiation, enables business flexibility in strategy execution owing to complicated architecture or regional limitations in terms of security and legal compliance if and when they rise and promotes portability from an application architecture perspective.

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Leadership in Cybersecurity

N2Growth Blog

Defining the position of the lead security person in an enterprise can be a challenging and sometimes confusing task. There are various job titles such as; Chief Security Officer (CSO), Chief Risk Officer, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), V.P., IT Security, V.P., or Director of Information Security.

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