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CIOs in transition: 5 tips for landing your next IT leadership job

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At some point in your career, you’re likely to find yourself in transition, having left an IT leadership job without a new one lined up. Ask your network, and you’ll likely find IT leader peers who have been in a similar situation at least once in their career. Networking is a lifelong endeavor.

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

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Others include preparation for zero-day attacks, almost anything having to do with data stewardship, as well as IT training and social engineering audits. What the ROI calculations tend to overlook are the increased costs associated with extending IT networks and systems to more edge locations — and ensuring that security is robust.

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3 ways to deter phishing attacks in 2023

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In fact, CIO has reported that it takes only a few minutes for experienced hackers to set up a social engineering attack against enterprises (and their managed service providers) that consider themselves to be secure and protected. Closely read all URLs for all sites where you log in and share, access or create sensitive data.

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Networking tips for IT leaders: A guide to building connections

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Networking isn’t just for holiday parties. The two cardinal rules of networking, according to CIOs and career coaches, are to schedule time to do it for at least an hour every month, and to approach it as something you do to help others in addition to yourself. But then I started doing it, and I’d come back energized and full of ideas.”

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CIO Fletcher Previn on designing the future of work

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Then, we quickly shifted our attention to the next phase, which was solving the security challenge of employees working in homes with smart thermostats, online classes, and video games all potentially on the same network. How do you define ‘best-in-class’ from a social perspective?

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CSM certification: Costs, requirements, and all you need to know

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After up to two attempts within 90 days, however, there’s a $25 charge for each additional attempt. Plus, CSM certification provides a career-boosting benefit and opens up opportunities for professional growth. Staying up to date requires staying current through SEUs. It’s also about being part of a community.

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Add brand security to your workload

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Last month in this column , I wrote about how businesses need to “lock up the front door” to their systems to prevent phishing attacks and take a multi-tiered approach to rethinking the identity of their employees, partners, and customers. Social media security has just risen to be a top priority for not only CISOs, but CMOs, CFOs, and CEOs.

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