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How leading CISOs build business-critical cyber cultures

Three prominent CISOs discuss what defines great cybersecurity leadership today — and how to transform the cybersecurity function into a business-driven organizational asset.

Aug 15, 2024 10 mins

CSO and CISO Data and Information Security IT Leadership

SAP patches critical bugs allowing full system compromise

Both the vulnerabilities score above 9 on CVSS and can allow access to sensitive data if not patched immediately.

Aug 14, 2024 1 min

Enterprise Applications Vulnerabilities

Open source software: Ways for CISOs to quell the fear

The use of open source software has been cited in a number of big security vulnerabilities in recent years. But there are ways to minimize that risk and gain the full benefits that open source offers. Find out about the emerging practices that organi

Aug 8, 2024 8 mins

Devops Enterprise Applications SaaS

Protecting your business from unforeseen outages: Lessons from the recent CrowdStrike incident

The CrowdStrike outage laid bare the operational risks inherent in third-party dependencies. Business impact assessments can expose such dependencies — as well as other risks — helping businesses to better protect themselves against unexp

Aug 6, 2024 7 mins

Cloud Computing Infrastructure Management SaaS

Inside CIOs’ response to the CrowdStrike outage — and the lessons they learned

The strongest security leadership rests not on frameworks and tools, but on a mindset.

Jul 14, 2025 6 mins

IT Leadership Security

Inside CIOs’ response to the CrowdStrike outage — and the lessons they learned

IT leaders from a range of industries discuss their teams’ in-the-trenches undertakings and the early takeaways they’ve gleaned to level up their response plans and capabilities.

Aug 5, 2024 10 mins

Business Continuity IT Leadership Incident Response

CrowdStrike failure: the beginning of the end of software without guarantees?

CrowdStrike’s crash-inducing security software update raises concerns about suppliers’ responsibility to offer quality guarantees for their products.

Aug 1, 2024 1 min

Security Software

CrowdStrike failure: What you need to know

A flawed update to CrowdStrike Falcon sent Windows servers and PCs across the globe into an endless reboot cycle that IT organizations are still working to remediate.

Aug 1, 2024 14 mins

Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Technology Industry

Solving the tech debt problem while staying competitive and secure

While CIOs recognize that tech debt is a big barrier to key strategic initiatives, they often deprioritize it. Here’s guidance to navigate management of tech debt while investing in innovative technologies and protecting the organization from c

Aug 1, 2024 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership Machine Learning