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How Not to Micromanage Talented Employees
There is really nothing to be gained by micromanaging talented employees. While it can be a difficult transition from individual contributor to manager, it is worth taking the time to avoid slipping into micromanagement.
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by Joshua Goldfarb



Creating Cyber Resilience Through Training
Everyone is familiar with the three legs of cybersecurity stool: people, processes and technology. But most companies typically invest in just one area – technology.
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by Gordon Lawson




The VC View: Data Security - Deciphering a Misunderstood Category
Data security is a tough topic to summarize and I’d argue it may be the most misunderstood category in security right now.
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by William Lin




What Cybersecurity Policy Changes Should We Expect from the Biden Administration?
Even if the best strategies and policies are created and uniformly agreed upon across all government and private sector domains, none of that will matter if the talent to execute does not exist.
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by AJ Nash



The Rise of Industrial IoT and How to Mitigate Risk
Proactive risk management requires being able to examine and address risk from different yet complementary perspectives to bring context to the overall security of an OT environment.
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by Yaniv Vardi




Improve Data Utilization to Modernize the SOC
Collaboration with teams across the organization to utilize data more efficiently and effectively, dramatically improves detection and response and is critical to achieve enterprise-wide risk management.
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by Marc Solomon




The Often-Overlooked Element of a Hack: Endpoints
Understanding not just the tail end of the cyber-attack kill chain, but also focusing on initial attack vectors like endpoints provides a roadmap for aligning preventive measures with today’s threats.
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by Torsten George




AI is Security's Best Defense
Using Machine Learning (ML) with AI means that security tools can be trained to work better with data and the ML system will be able to make recommendations for improvements.
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by Laurence Pitt



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