Author Archives: Julian Meyrick

How to Quantify the Actual Cost of a Data Breach for Your Own Organization

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As business leaders, we need to know what the biggest risks to our organizations are. All organizations face numerous disruptive challenges in today’s business environment that can create significant new business opportunities, but also can increase potential cybersecurity risks to the organizations. To address these issues, we need to focus our scarce resources on those […]

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Today’s Risk Assessment Goes Beyond Prediction to Intelligence

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Risk assessment helps organizations identify, reduce and manage risks to prevent their re-occurrence. To do this, they need to spend a large amount of their IT budget on technologies and processes to find and assess those risks, determine their impact and spend considerable effort to fix them.   Additionally, the increased reliance on third-party vendors to provide […]

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Securing Travel and Transportation Operations

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Transportation networks are foundational to our modern way of life. The current restrictions on global movement and the corresponding reduction in demand for travel and transportation services, while profound, are temporary. Forecasting future demand and capacity requirements is nearly impossible. But, the travel and transportation industries are part of the country’s critical infrastructure. They will return […]

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Strengthening Industry Collaboration Through the Charter of Trust for a Secure Digital World

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Under the Charter of Trust, limiting the impact of digital transformation and cybersecurity and building trust for users has to be the result of close collaboration at all levels.

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In Plain Sight: Why Military Veterans Are a Great Fit for Cybersecurity Careers

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To help close the skills gap, IBM supported the launch of TechVets, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping veterans and service leavers transition into cybersecurity careers.

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From the Battlefield to the Security Operations Center: A New Collar Approach to the Skills Gap

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Many companies, including IBM, are taking a new collar approach and recruiting ex-military personnel to fill woefully understaffed cybersecurity positions.

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Security in Banking: Are You Facing the Right Direction?

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The financial industry’s increasing dependence on advanced technologies has two major implications. First, the financial companies that adopt these technologies are able to leverage new and improved services, solve legacy issues and introduce competitive differentiation as a result. Second, the increased complexity of these systems creates more potential weak spots for cybercriminals to exploit. It […]

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