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Security team management: Top 4 findings from discussions with CISOs

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Most large businesses have a security team. But what, exactly, does that security team look like? And is it optimized in each of these respects to maximize the organization’s security posture? We learned, for example, that very few organizations have just a single security team. How is it structured? Most have several.

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Can you have too many security tools?

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A member of your organization’s security team reads about a new kind of security tool and brings it to the CISO’s attention, who decides that it’s a good investment. The CISO sees a new kind of security threat that requires a different security tool. A colleague recommends a security tool she says is indispensable.

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Unifying security and networking the AI-native way

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In today’s enterprise environments, security and networking teams may be siloed for a variety of reasons. Yet there’s now widespread agreement that the drawbacks of siloed security and networking operations far outweigh any historical advantages. Plus, enhanced security outcomes lead to impressive reputational dividends.

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Accelerating AI at scale without sacrificing security

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For others, it may simply be a matter of integrating AI into internal operations to improve decision-making and bolster security with stronger fraud detection. As AI adoption accelerates, it demands increasingly vast amounts of data, leading to more users accessing, transferring, and managing it across diverse environments.

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The importance of integrating security in planning and implementing SD-WAN

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These details are from the Check Point 2024 Cyber Security Report , which paints a combination of grim prospects and optimism. This technology is gaining popularity as it provides organizations several benefits, including simplifying network management, enhanced application performance, and operational cost savings.

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20 IT management certifications for IT leaders

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IT managers are often responsible for not just overseeing an organization’s IT infrastructure but its IT teams as well. To succeed, you need to understand the fundamentals of security, data storage, hardware, software, networking, and IT management frameworks — and how they all work together to deliver business value.

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As mainframe application development grows, so does the security risk

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Despite the importance of the mainframe, it has been neglected over the years with organizations focusing on perimeter security. According to Gartner , IT security software is the top purchase category (28%) for those buying IT-related software. But only eight percent of those buyers are purchasing IT management software.

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