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Getting the first 100 days right is critical to achieving momentum, credibility, and long-term success. By Etay Maor, Senior Director, Security Strategy, Cato Networks Starting off as a new CIO in a tough, dynamic environment can be daunting. CIOs must juggle multiple issues like coping with hybrid workplaces, changing cybersecurity and compliance protocols, increasing ransomware attacks and high expectations from the board, to name but a few. New CIOs need to tackle biased perceptions, make…

Only 31% are shipping laptops to employees and nearly half have spent their own money on a remote workspace, a survey from GetApp finds. Image: GetApp It’s pretty clear that hybrid work is here to stay, for the foreseeable future, anyway, and yet, only 31% of small businesses are shipping laptops to at least some employees, according to a new report.  The Tech at Work survey from GetApp, part of Gartner Digital Markets, also found…

Why am I here? There’s a lot of information out there on critical vulnerabilities; this short bug report contains an overview of what we believe to be the most news and noteworthy vulnerabilities. We don’t rely on a single scoring system like CVSS to determine what you need to know about; this is all about qualitative and experience-based analysis, relying on over 100 years of combined industry experience within our team. We look at characteristics…

Over $133m has already been lost this year to romance scams, with victims increasingly urged to invest in fraudulent cryptocurrency opportunities, according to the FBI. A new Public Service Announcement was published yesterday revealing that the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received over 1,800 complaints from January 1 to June 31 this year, resulting in soaring losses for victims. Victims are typically approached on dating and social media sites, where the scammer establishes a relationship with…

In this show I get over-excited about AI/ML (sorry Martijn and Mandy!)We have a great discussion around A.I. in general and also A.I. in the world of Data center and Cloud. Mandy shares her views on A.I. in consumerism (Tesla, thermostats, chat-bots) whilst Martijn ponders the often tricky ethics around A.I. and it’s biases. We also touch on the history of A.I. and spend some time discussing our partnership with NVIDIA and the joint “Project…

Privacy and security experts have signaled their concern over the appointment of Nadine Dorries to the post of digital and culture secretary. This week, Boris Johnson announced the move as part of a major Cabinet reshuffle designed to stamp his authority on government and drive momentum into the next General Election campaign. However, while most of the appointments were well received, question marks have been raised over Dorries’ tech credentials. As secretary of state for digital, culture,…

The US government is urging organizations to patch a newly identified Zoho vulnerability since state-sponsored attackers are actively exploiting it. CVE-2021-4053 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting REST-based API URLs which could enable remote code execution if exploited, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). It affects ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus — a self-service password management and single sign-on solution from the online productivity vendor. Zoho released a patch for this bug on September 6, but…