Over her 25-year career, Deanna Steele has led IT and digital organizations at companies in various stages of startup, acceleration, and turnaround. Much of this experience has been in the retail sector, including VP roles in technology at Hot Topic, Express, and Ascena Retail, CIO at Ingram Content Group, and CI&DO at J.Jill. This past June she joined Advantage Solutions, whose data and technology solutions help retailers and brands drive demand and operate more efficiently….

Commentary: Those searching for a single cause for the Log4j vulnerability – whether it’s open source is not secure, or open source is not sustainable – are getting it wrong. It’s a complicated issue. Image: your/Shutterstock Excuse me if I don’t want to hear your “hot take” on the Log4j vulnerability. By all means, give me the details of what happened, as well as how it’s impacting companies like mine. Even better, give me insight…

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – Chances are, you’ve recently been SMISHED.  Smishing is the combination of SMS Texting and Phishing used by scammers to defraud you and it has exploded recently.  With all the robocalls out there, many folks are more inclined to not answer their phone or even respond to an email, but they will respond to a text message.  “I don’t check my emails as often as I check my texts,” said Raleigh resident Zoe Harnell. …

It seems that the most popular topics in cybersecurity for the last year has been zero trust as well as the convergence of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT). These developments are good, as they signal some positive motion towards better overall security. Some of the current risks are worth noting, with a forward glance to protecting specific industries such as oil and gas production plants. What qualifies Tripwire as a capable partner in this…

The interruption in demand caused by COVID-19 and the subsequent excess of supply is putting pressure on the Gulf oil and gas sector to innovate and accelerate digital transformation, say a broad cross-section of industry insiders. It’s widely acknowledged that companies in the oil and gas industry were slow to adopt emerging technology, and that many still lack an up-to-date digital transformation strategy. In a survey conducted by the consulting firm EY with oil and…