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Security

New National Cybersecurity Strategy: resilience, regs, collaboration and pain (for attackers)

The Biden administration’s National Cybersecurity Strategy aims to go after attackers, cultivate a resilience-first defensive posture and build public, private and international collaboration.

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Security

1Password is looking to a password-free future. Here’s why

With phishing-based credentials theft on the rise, 1Password CPO Steve Won explains why the endgame is to 'eliminate’ passwords entirely.

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Security

Pen testing report: IT budgets should focus on entire security stack

With nearly 90% of companies reporting cyberattacks, pen testing budgets are on the rise, with cloud infrastructure and services a key focus area, according to a new report.

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Security

DLL sideloading and CVE attacks show diversity of threat landscape

Studies from Bitdefender and Arctic Wolf show that new tactics are using twists on concealment in social media and old vulnerabilities in third-party software.

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Tech & Work

Report: Stress will drive a quarter of cyber defenders out the door

There are too few cybersecurity experts to fill jobs, but a new study sees the crunch increasing through 2025 as cybersecurity experts head for the hills.

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Security

IBM: Most ransomware blocked last year, but cyberattacks are moving faster

A new study from IBM Security suggests cyberattackers are taking side routes that are less visible, and they are getting much faster at infiltrating perimeters.

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Artificial Intelligence

Salesforce offers 5 guidelines to reduce AI bias

The bias-reduction study guides companies in ways to build trust, safety and sustainability from their AI data stores and when to empower humans in the oversight of these models.

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CXO

Cisco CXO: Digital transformation means transforming customer outcomes

Cisco’s Chief Customer Experience Officer Thimaya Subaiya discusses low-power chips that will empower next-generation IoT, how data centers can reach net zero goals, zero trust and more.

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Security

Investigators uncover crypto scammers baiting ‘phish’ hooks on YouTube

A report reveals a new network of malefactors in the lucrative crypto fraud market using videos, channels and web apps.

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Tech & Work

What Twitter’s outage says about (over) zealous downsizing

The outage message that Twitter users got last week could be read as a warning for big tech firms looking to slash their IT workforce.

PURPOSE This policy describes the organization’s employee privacy guidelines and outlines employee privacy expectations. From the policy: POLICY DETAILS The organization’s IT equipment, services and systems are intended for business use only. However, the organization acknowledges that staff, consultants and volunteers occasionally require opportunities to make or receive personal phone calls, access personal email, utilize ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this Security Response Policy from TechRepublic Premium is to outline the security incident response processes which must be followed. This policy will assist to identify and resolve information security incidents quickly and effectively, thus minimizing their business impact and reducing the risk of similar incidents recurring. It includes requirements for both ...

PURPOSE This policy from TechRepublic Premium provides guidelines for reliable and secure backups of end user data. It outlines the responsibilities of IT departments and employees to identify tasks and action items for each group. The policy can be customized to fit the needs of your organization. From the policy: IT STAFF RESPONSIBILITIES IT staff ...

Karl Greenberg

New National Cybersecurity Strategy: resilience, regs, collaboration and pain (for attackers)

1Password is looking to a password-free future. Here’s why

Pen testing report: IT budgets should focus on entire security stack

DLL sideloading and CVE attacks show diversity of threat landscape

Report: Stress will drive a quarter of cyber defenders out the door

IBM: Most ransomware blocked last year, but cyberattacks are moving faster

Salesforce offers 5 guidelines to reduce AI bias

Cisco CXO: Digital transformation means transforming customer outcomes

Investigators uncover crypto scammers baiting ‘phish’ hooks on YouTube

What Twitter’s outage says about (over) zealous downsizing

Employee privacy policy

Security response policy

End user data backup policy

Electronic communication policy