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Geopolitical risks could present new opportunities for CIOs: Gartner

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Some of the key focus areas for CIOs, according to Gartner, are digital sovereignty, helping build a local technology industry, running a risk center and provide understanding of cyberspace in different nations. Data sovereignty will be a key focus area for CIOs.

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2 Innovations That Can Tip the Balance in Cybersecurity

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Army Major General and Vice President and Federal Chief Security Officer for Palo Alto Networks What critical innovations can change the balance in cybersecurity, providing those of us responsible for defending our organizations with more capabilities against those who would do us harm? By John Davis, Retired U.S. government.

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How Hospital Security Breaches Devastate Local Communities

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This is all to say that hospital cyber-security breaches can have a devastating impact on the people impacted. The same HIPAA regulations that have been protecting patient privacy since the 90s are now applied to digital healthcare technology to ensure that patients enjoy the same level of privacy even in cyberspace.

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Empowering cyber resilience in education: Three strategies for the future

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Another advantage of adopting a shared responsibility model is to leverage the security capabilities of your cloud service providers. Companies like AWS, Microsoft, and Google invest heavily in securing their cloud products. Incorporating those tools into your environment means you benefit from their security.

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CIOs sharpen tech strategies to support hybrid work

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In its Future of Work predictions for 2023 , IDC called hybrid work “a mainstay for our global future work landscape,” adding that “hybrid work will drive new technology solutions across functions and industries alike.” So now whenever we do something in IT, like release a capability, we have these principles in mind.

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Major wins and losses in GOVCON – FedSavvy edition April 2024

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Amentum wins Army takeaway contract In October 2023, Amentum was awarded a five-year, $327 million contract to engineer, integrate and test advanced prototype command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C5ISR) technologies and systems for the U.S. This is a takeaway from Leidos.

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Ransomware And The Defense Industrial Base

Smart Data Collective

According to the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report of 2016, governments’ growing dependence on information technology makes them vulnerable to ransomware attacks. Hackers perpetrate ransomware attacks against the defense industrial base to undercut the military, technological, and economic advantages of a government.