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Dissecting The SolarWinds Hack For Greater Insights With A Cybersecurity Evangelist

Dissecting The SolarWinds Hack For Greater Insights With A Cybersecurity Evangelist

By Louis Columbus on January 4, 2021

Bottom Line: Cyberattacks enter a new era of lethal impact when threat actors are sophisticated enough to compromise SolarWind’s software supply chain with infected binary code while mimicking legitimate protocol traffic to avoid detection. To gain greater insights into the SolarWinds breach, its implications on cybersecurity strategy in the future and what steps enterprises need […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Centrify, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) Alert AA20-352A, FireEye, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-53, SolarWinds, SolarWinds breach, Zero Trust Security | Leave a response

The Best Tech Companies For Remote Jobs In 2021 According To Glassdoor

The Best Tech Companies For Remote Jobs In 2021 According To Glassdoor

By Louis Columbus on December 27, 2020

  Glassdoor shows 3,937 companies in the middle of a hiring surge during Covid-19, 960 of which are in information technology. Leading software companies going through a hiring surge right now include Aha! Software, Appen, Clevertech, CrowdStrike, Datadog, Dataiku, Fastly, Hashicorp, Leidos, Liveops, Netskope, Proofpoint, Rackspace, Zapier and Zendesk. Modern Tribe, Dataiku, Zapier, PartnerCentric, Slack, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Aha! Software, Appen, Clevertech, CrowdStrike, datadog, Dataiku, Fastly, Hashicorp, leidos, liveops, Louis Columbus' blog, Netskope, Proofpoint, Rackspace, Zapier, Zendesk | Leave a response

12 Cybersecurity CEOs On What Each Learned Leading During The Pandemic

12 Cybersecurity CEOs On What Each Learned Leading During The Pandemic

By Louis Columbus on December 21, 2020

Bottom Line: Cybersecurity CEOs’ lessons learned from navigating the pandemic provide a valuable framework for leading and growing a business through anxious, uncertain times. How each cybersecurity CEO responds to the challenges of keeping employees safe, customers secure, and product release cycles on schedule while still achieving customer success – all virtually – provide valuable […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Startup Lessons, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged absolute software, Centrify, Evernym, Founder Shield, Gramener: Insights as Data Stories, Hexnode, Kount, Louis Columbus' blog, MobileIron, Osborne Global Security, Prometeo, Qohash, RapidSpace | Leave a response

Software Dominates Deloitte’s 2020 Tech Fast 500 With 71% Of All Companies

Software Dominates Deloitte’s 2020 Tech Fast 500 With 71% Of All Companies

By Louis Columbus on December 15, 2020

Software companies continue to deliver the highest growth rates for the 25th straight year, representing 71% of the entire list, the highest-ever percentage in the history of the rankings. 353 of the 500 fastest-growing companies in North America are in the software industry according to Deloitte’s 2020 Tech Fast 500, the most ever in the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2020 Technology Fast 500 Winners, cybersecurity, deloitte, Deloitte's Technology Fast 500, enterprise sofware, Louis Columbus' blog

What Are The Fastest Growing Cybersecurity Skills In 2021?

What Are The Fastest Growing Cybersecurity Skills In 2021?

By Louis Columbus on November 27, 2020

Cybersecurity professionals with cloud security skills can gain a $15,025 salary premium by capitalizing on strong market demand for their skills in 2021. DevOps and Application Development Security professionals can expect to earn a $12,266 salary premium based on their unique, in-demand skills. 413,687 job postings for Health Information Security professionals were posted between October […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Application Development Security, Application Security Code Review, Azure Security, Cloud Security Architecture, Cloud Security Infrastructure, Container Security, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, Google Cloud Security, Louis Columbus' blog, Microservices Security, Public Cloud Security

Centrify's New CEO Has A Compelling Vision For The Future Of Cybersecurity

Centrify’s New CEO Has A Compelling Vision For The Future Of Cybersecurity

By Louis Columbus on November 3, 2020

Bottom Line: Flint Brenton’s vision for the future of Centrify and cybersecurity, in general, prioritizes the need for privileged access management to become core to the multi-cloud architectures and DevOps environments he sees pervading customers’ enterprises today. Every new cybersecurity company CEO is writing their vision of the future by their decisions and the priorities […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Startup Lessons, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Centrify, Centrify CEO Flint Brenton, Cybersecurity in a COVID-19 World, Cybersecurity strategy, DevOps, Louis Columbus' blog, microservices, Privileged Access Management

83% Of Enterprises Transformed Their Cybersecurity In 2020

83% Of Enterprises Transformed Their Cybersecurity In 2020

By Louis Columbus on November 1, 2020

73% of enterprises (over 500 employees) accelerated their cloud migration plans to support the shift to remote working across their organizations due to the pandemic. 81% of enterprises accelerated their IT modernization processes due to the pandemic. 48% of all companies surveyed have accelerated their cloud migration plans, 49% have sped up their IT modernization […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI in cybersecurity, Centrify, centrify privileged access management, CISO, cybersecurity, Louis Columbus' blog

Absolute’s CEO Christy Wyatt On The Future Of Endpoint Security

Absolute’s CEO Christy Wyatt On The Future Of Endpoint Security

By Louis Columbus on October 26, 2020

Removing any doubt endpoints are resilient, self-healing and secure is what matters most to cybersecurity leaders today. It has become the highest priority across education, enterprise, financial services and government organizations in 2020 and beyond. At the same time, CIOs and CISOs are recognizing that endpoint complexity itself is a vulnerability. Absolute’s 2020 State of […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Absolute Persistence, Absolute Resilience, absolute software, Christy Wyatt CEO Absolute, cybersecurity, endpoint security, Louis Columbus' blog

What’s New In Gartner’s Hype Cycle For AI, 2020

What’s New In Gartner’s Hype Cycle For AI, 2020

By Louis Columbus on October 25, 2020

47% of artificial intelligence (AI) investments were unchanged since the start of the pandemic and 30% of organizations plan to increase their AI investments, according to a recent Gartner poll. 30% of CEOs own AI initiatives in their organizations and regularly redefine resources, reporting structures and systems to ensure success. AI projects continue to accelerate this year […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI, Artificial intelligence, gartner, Gartner's Hype Cycle For AI 2020, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning

How An AI Platform Is Matching Employees And Opportunities

How An AI Platform Is Matching Employees And Opportunities

By Louis Columbus on September 13, 2020

Bottom Line: Eightfold.ai’s innovative approach of combining their own AI and virtual hackathons to create and launch new additions to their Project Marketplace rapidly is a model enterprises need to consider emulating. Eightfold.ai was founded with the mission that there is a right career for everyone in the world. Since its founding in 2016, Eightfold.ai’s […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI, AI in HRM, Artificial intelligence, Eightfold, Human resource management, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning, talent management

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