Tag: saas
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Handbook: Applying Zero Trust Principles in a Cloud-Centric World
Zero Trust … but to Which Cloud? In the cloud-centric world enterprises increasingly operate in, there are different interesting environments that zero trust principles should be applied to. One of them we’ve somewhat talked about the evolution of the enterprise IT network. That network is becoming more and more obsolete, slowly being replaced with different…
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Handbook: Environments
One challenge of being a CISO is understanding scope: when a colleague tells you a truth (hypothetically “We patch our systems regularly”), in what environment is that true? Maybe they’re just referring to the core Windows Domain servers, or possibly to desktops, but it’s easy for executives, including CISOs, to hear that as “we do…
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The Death of the CIO
CISOs grew up in the CIO’s blindspot. As cloud and SaaS bring IT and security back together, which will survive their impending deathmatch? A half-century ago, most corporations were paper-native: Their business processes all executed on paper from both back office (accounting) to go-to-market functions (sales and marketing). Their businesses were location-native: Revenue was often…
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How to CISO Volume 1: The First 91 Days
Ninety days is generally the grace period (or “honeymoon,” if you’d like) that a new executive has to get acclimated to a new environment. At the end of this time window, your employer is going to expect you to be executing on a plan, anyone you need to meet will expect you to have already…