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• BrandPost: CIO Interview with Amy Tong, Director and CIO of the California Department of Technology

  23-05-2018 21:30
  California recently surpassed the U.K. and now ranks as the fifth largest economy in the world. Managing the people and technology driving that growth is an equally massive challenge. CIO Amy Tong has been leading the charge since June of 2016, and she shared her thoughts on what’s working and where the state is heading.What are some of the unique challenges of being the CIO of such a large “organization?”We use a federated management approach. We recognize and appreciate the
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: IT training: Why the delivery of eLearning content is just as important as the content Itself

  23-05-2018 19:15
  IT is a highly competitive and fast-changing industry that demands continuous learning to retain and upskill top talent while simultaneously delivering business value. Whether it is IT operations, cloud services, data analytics, software development or DevOps, eLearning has proven to be an effective and efficient way for IT professionals, especially administrators and developers, to regularly enhance their skills.How do you want to learn today?
  eLearning content exists in multiple modalities, g
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Seeing the big picture in digital initiatives

  23-05-2018 18:57
  A big picture view is a holistic view that shows an organization’s many related parts that interact to get some things done. A big picture view is critical for you to define a scope that can help translate strategy. It is also needed to eliminate the two bad extremes: “technology-injection” projects and “everything-on-it” projects.Translate strategy
  Strategies are devised to realize an organization’s overall goals. How do strategies do that? In part, they do
  
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• BrandPost: Applying the Hacker Mindset to Cybersecurity Strategy

  23-05-2018 16:08
  The majority of hackers surveyed in the 2018 “Black Report”claimed they could breach a perimeter and exfiltrate data in less than a day. The results were similar across industries, from telecommunications companies to law firms, federal government, critical infrastructure, and aviation.Cyber defense can seem like a constant game of whack-a-mole, with security teams trying to keep pace with increasingly sophisticated hackers and other cyber criminals. And everyone is at risk, says Je
  
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• BrandPost: Surviving a Ransomware Attack

  23-05-2018 15:59
  The FBI recently noted a decline in ransomware attacks reported to the agency in 2017, at 1,783 compared to 2,673 the previous year. But don’t necessarily read this as good news. The reality is ransomware, like many other cyber-attack types, goes largely under-reported. A Verizon report, based on its analysis of tens of thousands of real-world security incidents, found that ransomware incidents have doubled over the past year.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: In praise of personalized pricing

  23-05-2018 15:06
  Singer-songwriter Carsie Blanton uses an appealing CD sales pitch in her live performances.  She says, “I believe music is more important than money. But I like money.  So, pay what you wish.  That doesn’t really mean free. If you’re broke, sure the CD is free.  But if you’re wealthy, its $10,000.”The audience laughs, which reveals an interesting fact about personalized pricing.  For most people, it seems intuitively fair.  People who
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How would you describe yourself?

  23-05-2018 13:00
  A recent career advice column at The Ladders featured and article by Madeline Mann via Quora, calling out four words that you should never say when being interviewed for a job. The offending words are all generally preceded by “I am [a]…
  Perfectionist
  Multitasker
  Person-person
  IntelligentThis is good advice and the article is worth checking out. There are good reasons to avoid these words, and it should not be that hard to do. If you think about it for a minute, how many legit job
  
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• How IoT will reinvent supply chain management

  23-05-2018 12:00
  When you call for an Uber, the app shows you a picture of the driver, gives you a description of the car, and includes a map so you can see where your ride is. Plus, you can communicate directly with the driver, in case they need help finding you.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• BrandPost: Maximizing Multi-Cloud Deployments

  23-05-2018 00:13
  Numerous drivers exist as organizations begin embracing multi-cloud deployments, including the ability to avoid vendor lock-in, capitalizing on differing CSP pricing models as well as the ability to align workloads with the unique benefits of competing cloud offerings. And, simply put, developing a strategic approach to multi-cloud is one of the first steps to remaining competitive in today’s digital economy where ongoing innovation has become the new norm. However, there is a notewo
  
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• BrandPost: Keys to Staying Secure in Multi-Cloud Environment

  23-05-2018 00:11
  The benefits to embracing a multi-cloud infrastructure are quite clear, especially when competing in today’s digital economy. However, without taking the right precautions upfront, embracing a multi-cloud infrastructure to support innovative development and deployment of new offerings can represent big complexities -- complexities that organizations need to address to avoid security pitfalls. And, no business can afford to suffer the consequences of failing to properly protect data access
  
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