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Image: Song_about_summer/Adobe Stock Must-read security coverage What is DevSecOps? DevSecOps is a portmanteau of development, security and operations. Like DevOps, DevSecOps refers to a combination of culture, processes and technologies. But while DevOps focuses on optimizing and streamlining the software development lifecycle, DevSecOps seeks to improve security throughout an organization’s product delivery pipeline. Further, DevSecOps directly addresses potential security weaknesses introduced by the DevOps model. SEE: Password breach: Why pop culture and passwords don’t mix…

Going Beyond Privileged Accounts By François Amigorena, Founder & CEO, IS Decisions Given the current global cyber threat landscape, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is one of the most effective ways to prevent breaches and protect network data. But although MFA adoption has accelerated since the pandemic, it’s still slow to take off. Why? For MFA adoption to really become widespread, organizations must grasp the true value of MFA and how to implement it effectively. MFA Adoption…

New partnerships with Oracle, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are highlighting Informatica’s strategy to dominate the market for data management products by offering integrations that cut down the time and complexity of data migration, management and engineering tasks. The partnerships, announced this week at the annual Informatica World conference, boost the capabilities of the company’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) and are in sync with the company’s recent data management product releases and previous partnerships…

New partnerships with Oracle, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are highlighting Informatica’s strategy to dominate the market for data management products by offering integrations that cut down the time and complexity of data migration, management and engineering tasks. The partnerships, announced this week at the annual Informatica World conference, boost the capabilities of the company’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) and are in sync with the company’s recent data management product releases and previous partnerships…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published a new five-step 5G Security Evaluation Process to help companies improve their security posture before deploying new 5G applications. More specifically, the new guidelines include information about relevant threat frameworks, 5G system security standards, industry security specifications, federal security guidance documents and methodologies to conduct cybersecurity assessments of 5G systems. “5G networks are designed to be more secure than 4G,” read the report. “However, the complexity…

Twitter has agreed to pay a $150m fine to settle a federal privacy suit over privacy data violations. The row saw the social company reportedly collecting phone numbers and email addresses for account security measures and then using the information for advertising purposes without letting users know. “This practice affected more than 140 million Twitter users while boosting Twitter’s primary source of revenue,” explained Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta in a statement. The activity, recorded…

CIO is proud to launch the second CIO50 Awards in the Middle East, recognising the top 50 senior technology executives driving innovation, strengthening resiliency and influencing rapid change. Reflective of IDG’s increasing commitment to the region, CIO50 is aligned to a global awards program and viewed as a mark of excellence within the enterprise. In 2022, CIO50 will be judged on four core pillars ofInnovation, Diversity & Culture, Workplace and Data Intelligence, honouring transformational, inspiring…