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IT Leads the Way: How the Pandemic Empowered IT

The pivot to working from home (WFH) proved that enterprise IT organizations could do the unimaginable – and do it quickly and well. Once you realize you can move all your users to WFH in days instead of years, you start to wonder what else you can do quickly. What digital transformation projects, long considered...

2021 Technology Spending Intentions Survey

In order to assess technology spending priorities over the next 12-18 months, ESG recently surveyed 664 IT and business professionals representing midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America and Western Europe. All respondents were personally...

Ultimate Guide to Modern IT Ops - 4 Keys to Success

Digital transformation is a way of life in today’s business world. It touches all corners of the enterprise in ways that were once unimaginable. CIO and IT executives at companies of all sizes and in all industries are quickly coming to realize that most legacy tools and processes are, at best, inefficient and are...

The Road to Compliance: Steps for Securing Data to Comply with the GDPR

This guide is for CISOs who want to understand whether their companies are impacted by the new regulation, how it impacts them, and what steps their teams can take to comply with GDPR data security requirements. You'll learn: The basic framework, intent, and extent of the GDPR Which companies are affected What...

CISO Guide: The Digital Transformation of Data Security

Data protection and data privacy are the cornerstones of trust between businesses and their clients. Encryption and managing the keys to the kingdom are critical components to maintaining that trust, preventing data breaches, and avoiding regulatory penalties. However, the technology used to manage encryption is often...

Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report 2020

Every Tuesday, Microsoft releases fixes for all vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products, and this report compiles these releases into a year-long overview, creating a holistic view of trends related to vulnerabilities and how many Microsoft vulnerabilities could be mitigated if admin rights were removed from...

No Blindspots Toolkit

The evolution of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) has introduced a new spectrum of benefits for enterprises. The speed, scalability, and ease of set up have made the virtualized computing services of public cloud extremely attractive to enterprises. Unfortunately, the very nature of these dynamic, distributed, and...

Survey Report: Cybersecurity Insiders 2020 AWS Cloud Security Report

Organizations continue to rapidly migrate business applications from datacenters to the cloud, utilizing new technologies such as serverless, containers, and machine learning to benefit from increased efficiency, better scalability, and faster deployments from cloud computing. The 2020 AWS Cloud Security Report is...

EMA Evaluation Guide to Privileged Access Management (PAM)

This EMA Evaluation Guide is intended to provide actionable guidance on the key elements to consider when selecting a PAM solution and how to ensure the investment achieves organizational requirements for security and usability. Download this guide now to better understand how modern PAM solutions offer among the...

Make This Your Year for Certification

Read this (ISC)² Exam Action Plan to find out everything you need to prepare for your big certification day!

The CISO's Guide to Third-Party Security Management

Managing the security of your third parties is crucial, but security assessments are riddled with problems, including a lack of context, scalability and relevance. How can you build an effective process? In this comprehensive guide, we provide the guidance you need to make your organization’s third-party security...

The CISO’s Guide to Choosing an Automated Security Questionnaire Platform

In this day and age of cyber risk and data privacy regulations, automated third-party questionnaires are a must. Organizations can no longer simply hire vendors without proof of a strong cyber posture, and a comprehensive questionnaire can demonstrate that vendors’ internal security policies are up to par. Yet not...

Implementing Cloud Native Security: Shift-Left to Increase Effectiveness

Cloud security trends like “shift-left security” and “DevSecOps” refer to new strategies and paradigms that help organizations keep workloads secure in the age of cloud-based, scale-out, constantly changing applications and infrastructure. Many in IT, security, and development probably understand what these...

Simplify to Secure

Stuck on the cybersecurity treadmill? Download Cisco's report, Simplify to Secure, to find out why your organization should strive for integrated cybersecurity and learn practical steps you can take to accomplish it.

Kubernetes Security Tips, Tricks and Best Practices

Organizations are using DevOps and Agile practices, coding in containers and microservices, and adopting Kubernetes at a record pace to help manage all these components. Even five years ago, the level of agility, speed, and flexibility the cloud-native stack enables was but a dream. Since Google first introduced...