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The Importance of Identity Management in Security

CIO

And while all organizations work hard to prevent attacks through traditional security measures such as multi-factor authentication, patching, training, and more, the bad guys increasingly find their way in through poorly thought-out, scattered access and identity management practices. The first relates to today’s lack of perimeter.

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Enabling Digital Transformation, Securely

CIO

Digital transformation leverages software to re-invent the entire LBGUPS (Learn, Buy, Get, Use, Pay & Support) business value chain. This digital transformation requires businesses to bring together data, applications, and users in a secure way—across digital and hybrid environments that are distributed, complex, and expanding.

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Baldor’s first-ever CIO sets the transformation agenda

CIO

Baldor Specialty Foods is turning to IT to take its business to the next level. To cultivate its ambitious digital plans, the Bronx-based company, which prepares and delivers fresh food from “farm to table” of restaurants and caterers in New York City, Boston, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., poached its first CIO.

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Payment-processing outages at UK retailers raise reliability issues for cashless transactions

CIO

The problems at fast food restaurant McDonalds, supermarkets Tesco and Sainsbury’s, and bakery chain Greggs, highlight retailers’ increasing reliance on third-party payment systems and the technical issues hampering a global shift from cash to digital payments. There is no way around it,” he said.

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5 Urgent Changes to Immediately Improve Business Data Security

Smart Data Collective

Around 30,000 websites are hacked every day and 64% of businesses have been victims of a cyberattack. This means that businesses need to take stronger precautions to protect against data breaches these days. With that in mind, below are 5 ways to immediately improve your data security. But there are more secure options.

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Why adaptability is the new digital transformation

CIO

They’ve simply become the price of doing business, just like issuing payroll or filing tax returns. We need to build in the ability to change and react to change across all aspects of our organizations’ strategy, business model, operating model, processes, products, and services. Instead of the binary states of “open” or “closed” (i.e.,

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Automation for all—managing and scaling networks has never been easier

CIO

At this time of dynamic business and market changes, uncertainty, and quickly evolving consumption models for IT infrastructure, every IT executive understands the benefits and necessity of network agility. Yet most businesses haven’t tapped into two major capabilities of truly agile distributed networks: scale and automation.