Archive for author: G-Forum

Emile-Abou-Saleh
CIO Speak

Pandemic psychology is driving insider threats

Organisations around the world are at a greater risk of insider threats than ever before, with reported incidents up 47% year on year. And they are as damaging as they are prevalent. In the UAE, Proofpoint’s re...

Arafat-Yousef
CIO Speak

Why data centre managers need to prepare for the next technology evolution

Enterprise data centres need to prepare for the next technology evolution to accommodate the incessant increase of data generation. 100G is set to become the next speed for the core or spine network. Different ...

Rick-Vanover
CIO Speak

The financial services industry is an appealing target for cyber criminals

The financial services industry is an appealing target for cyber criminals today. Arguably, consumers financial, banking, trading and superannuation information is some of the most important data held by organi...

Karl-Lankford
CIO Speak

The five critical steps in endpoint security strategy

Threats to endpoints can come in the form of external attacks as well as insider threats, which may be either malicious or unintentional in nature. A compromised endpoint can give an attacker a foothold within ...

Firas-Ghanem
CIO Speak

MITRE ATT&CK framework and threat intelligence

The MITRE ATT&CK framework is being used in more and more areas of cyber security, including the identification of threat actors, their techniques and behaviour. Companies need a knowledge base to identify ...

Margaret-Cunningham
CIO Speak

How to minimise the impact of cognitive biases in cybersecurity

It is 7am, and ten minutes into the morning you have already dismissed the first round of notifications littering your screen. Respond, dismiss, delete, save, and keep going. It is impossible to escape the endl...

Sergej-Epp
CIO Speak

The new normal in work is precipitating a new normal in cybersecurity

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a shock to our systems. It has forced societies, governments, businesses and individuals to abruptly rethink long-held practices and processes, including in basic areas such as ho...

Partha-Banerjee,
CIO Speak

Are Steve Jobs and Elon Musk narcissists or visionaries? 

Probably they were a bit of both! Is that more of a surprise or a shock? Well, Narcissism is often mistaken for visionary leadership, science shows. According to Stanford Business School’s Charles O&#8217...

Erdal
CIO Speak

The vulnerability management strategy

By Dr Erdal Ozkaya, a leading cybersecurity professional with business development, management, and academic skills who focuses on securing the cyber space and sharing his real-life skills as a security advisor...

Fouth-edition
COVID-19

Covid restrictions threatening and burdening viability of SMBs finds Salesforce

Salesforce published the fourth edition of its Small and Medium Business Trends Report. This research was conducted in two parts, with a study in March 2020 and a follow-up study in August 2020, providing insig...