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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

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. Enter the need for integrated networking and security. What’s fueling accelerated digital transformation? Cloud and edge computing.

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Baldor’s first-ever CIO sets the transformation agenda

CIO

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. As an organization, Baldor is no stranger to the value of IT.

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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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AI at the retail edge: What’s new, and what’s coming soon

CIO

What is supposed to be a quick meal on the go too often turns into a grim choice between eating something you didn’t order or parking and walking into the restaurant to stand in line to complain … and then wait for your order again. And these mistakes are costly, around $26 million annually for a national chain restaurant.

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VPNs Are Crucial for Data Security on Public Wi-Fi

Smart Data Collective

Data security is a greater concern than ever before. You have to take stringent measures to secure your data. VPNs Are Invaluable for Data Security. Those networks are not safe, and you should not connect your device to those open networks because of security concerns. What is a VPN?

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A Vision of Radical Networking Simplicity

CIO

Blind spots between different on-premises, cloud, Internet, and other operational silos and organizational teams are opportunities for failure and security vulnerabilities. They are connected industrial and Internet of Things (IoT) experiences that drive optimization of operational productivity and flexibility without compromising security.