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The chief information security officer (CISO) role explained

BMC

These include, among others: Verification checks for job candidates Security education and training program Policies for identity and access management Disaster recovery and business continuity The CISO is responsible for resilience against cyber-attacks. Once identified, containing a breach takes an average of 53-103 days.

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Security Industry Association Announces 2025 SIA Women in Security Forum Power 100 Honorees

Security Industry Association

SIA protects and advances its members interests by advocating pro-industry policies and legislation at the federal and state levels, creating open industry standards that enable integration, advancing industry professionalism through education and training, opening global market opportunities, and collaborating with other like-minded organizations.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: The Perfect Time to Implement and Mature Your Cyber Response Strategy

Castellan

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month , and it’s a great time to take a closer look at the cyber resilience components of your business continuity and resilience plans to ensure your organization is on the right path to not just prevent potential cyber events, but to be prepared to respond to the new inevitable—when an incident happens.

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Integrating Risk Disciplines: Business Continuity and Cyber Response

Castellan

As we reflect on lessons learned from our pandemic and multi-event response protocols, we can find many opportunities to improve business continuity practices to further solidify resilience. Cyber resilience is part of a much bigger picture and as such is evolving as a critical component of business continuity.

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Turning Setbacks into Strengths: How Spring Branch ISD Built Resilience with Pure Storage and Veeam

Pure Storage

These include ERP, student information, and phone systems, as well as SQL servers and various education-specific applicationsand data from 50,000 users and 100,000 devices. One of my teams many responsibilities is to back up all of Spring Branch ISDs critical workloads to Pure Storage.

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Why Paying the Ransom Should Be Your Last Option

Pure Storage

Educate employees on cybersecurity: Train staff to recognize phishing emails and suspicious links. White Paper, 7 pages Perfecting Cyber Resilience: The CISO Blueprint for Success Read the Report Be Ready Learn how Pure Storage can help you strengthen your defenses. Remember, ransomware thrives on unpreparedness.

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Cybersecurity Leadership: The Complete Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Security Team

Pure Storage

CISOs and others responsible for guarding a company’s data and infrastructure are now prioritizing things like cyber resilience and tiered architectures to better align with new guidelines, such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 , that have been developed to help cybersecurity leaders navigate this dangerous new world.