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CIO.com: What are your roles and responsibilities? My role is the CIO/director of IT/digital innovation at Mastercall Healthcare. I am employed by the C-suite to drive digital transformation forward, ensuring digital initiatives are aligned to the organisation’s business strategy, utilising cutting-edge technology, and reimagining the art of the possible. Mastercall Healthcare is an award-winning, out-of-hospital provider of urgent primary care services and has just celebrated 25 years in business.  My role is to support the…

After a busy start to the year, we were finally able to settle down and take a look at a new book. This time around, we’re looking at Go H*ck Yourself: A Simple Introduction to Cyber Attacks and Defense by Bryson Payne. The No Starch Press page describes the book as “an eye-opening, hands-on introduction to the world of hacking, from an award-winning cybersecurity coach.” In some ways, the book reminds me of a simplified…

As high-profile data theft incidents continue to rise and become more sophisticated, there is a greater-than-ever need for emerging businesses to take their cybersecurity seriously. So, why do many entrepreneurs and “startup unicorns” consider it the turf of large-scale organizations only, even after some of the world’s largest corporations have fallen prey to cybercrime? Security breaches at so many companies exposed the personal data of millions of Americans. One of the major issues for organizations…

Beca Executive Director and Chief Digital Officer Thomas Hyde on avoiding a ‘Kodak’ moment, creating a case for change, taking an agile approach at the leadership level and the challenges and opportunities of being an employee-owned organisation. Watch this episode: Source link

Gigamon VP breaks down how to eliminate TLS, and considerations for a decryption and encryption approach By Bassam Khan, VP of Product and Technical Marketing Engineering, Gigamon Many who work in IT are still of the mindset that encrypted traffic means safe traffic. That’s a dangerous generalization. Encrypted traffic simply means it’s private, and private communications does not equate to safe communications. Security teams’ use of encryption continues to grow steadily for legitimate privacy and…

By Karim Adib, Data Analyst, The SEO Works According to a report commissioned by the UK government, 82% of job openings advertised online across the UK require digital skills. The same study attributes a 29% higher salary and a 59% reduced risk of redundancy (due to automation-led obsolescence) for these digital jobs. Not only does this illustrate the importance of digital skills – it also suggests that job openings that do not require digital skills…